White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...leading to US and British decisions to abolish the trade of enslaved Africans Part 4: Davis explores decreasing support for the trade of enslaved Africans and impacts of the French...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...several days after the election. Nossiter, a normally sharp-eyed contributor on southern topics, focused on the low levels of white support for Obama in several Deep South states, and he...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restoration campaign, and the work is supported by the Longleaf Alliance, an organization based at Auburn University and created in 1995 to coordinate cooperation between private landowners, forest industries, government...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...have expressed frustration over the location of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Many leaders decided not to donate money to the convention, while still supporting the president's...
Mississippi Delta
...1964. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2003688166. The civil rights movement nonetheless found crucial support in the Delta, putting forward a...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...for racial violence. Throughout, Clegg emphasizes themes that illuminate the wider history of Jim Crow lynching. He reaffirms how the Rowan lynchings served to support the implementation of segregation and...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...MFA program, while supporting cutting-edge documentary work in photography, film and video, narrative writing, community studies, and documentary radio production. Dedicated to the ideals of social and environmental justice, CDS...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...to established creole communities. Powell incisively argues that it was the new American regime’s eagerness to serve the interests of slaveholders that made Louisiana elites staunch supporters of the United...