Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...of racial integration in the mid-1950s, he soon allied himself with the Nashville-based nonviolence initiative of the Reverends James M. Lawson and Kelly Miller Smith, whose leadership inspired the lunch-counter...
Putting up Beans
...the funeral for the grandma down the road how she’d spent so much time making this apron I remember on my lap. In a time where women don’t wear aprons...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...opened to the public in April 1905. The Gibbes houses a collection of ten thousand works, principally American portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and miniature portraits with a Charleston or southern connection....
Insistent Traces
...reads the poem "Aftermath." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757059 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757420 Claudia Emerson reads the...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...4: Morgan reads “Rearview Mirror” and discusses the paradox of the mirror Part 5: Morgan describes his relationships with A.R. Ammons and Jake Adam York, as well as the role of place...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...College's Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty. Berry is the author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles (University of Illinois Press, 2000), which examines the migration of millions of white...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...text. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: The impact on musics of migration into, out of, or within regions of the US South Southern musics outside the US...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...this quilt, but the construction and materials tell another story. The visual appearance of the pattern is deceiving: the convex piece cut from one fabric square looks like it might...