Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 38, no. 1 (1997): 43.[/fn] Roadways remained dangerous spaces throughout the civil rights movement. During the "Bloody Sunday" assaults in Selma, Alabama...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...granddaughters walk playfully ahead on a sunny, tree-lined neighborhood street. A middle-aged man in glasses helps a girl with puff sleeves and a brightly patterned dress up to a drinking...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...hung, turning all afternoon on the breeze. My rod bends towards breaking, then straightens as the fish darts free through the sunken junkyard that grows by the weight of one...
Substantiation
...Farm where guards rifle from the woods. A change at the Eavesdrop Inn then he's bent picking cotton in a field. Come sundown, he hobos Sumner way and squats at...
#598, Common Meter
Sung to tune of Cleansing Fountain in B.F. White Sacred Harp Cooper Revision (382) 1) There is a house not made with hands Eternal and on high: ...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Georgia students came from suburban Atlanta and had grown up with a dose of post-civil rights movement Sunbelt optimism. Musician Vic Varney, a member of the Tone Tones and the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...piece pays homage to Sun Ra, the jazz musician who claimed Saturn as his planet of origin and Birmingham as the site of his “arrival,” and so images the piano...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
Letter: Blues
...each one of them. We do. The insides of my wrists still ache with you. Does the South watch over wandering ones Under different moons and different suns? I have...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...