Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...liquor retailers from trading with slaves. Increasingly, officials attempted to clamp down upon disorderly grog shops and "blind tigers" and replace them with more respectable drinking establishments. What was the...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans. Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...
The Change
...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree summer heat with air so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...a wicker chair, lived like a vine growing outward through children. She made biscuits for breakfast, kneaded the dough with fat hands, washed clothes of six kids and a grandchild...
Runaway
...that tree's duty to that Smell and knew too my duty to tear like a switch through Air, to strike the street's edge in a pair of tattered shoes, Unconnected,...
Fort Scott newspapers
Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...
Jackson, Mississippi images
...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...Fifty yards downstream a granite cliff rises two hundred feet into the air to cast this section of river into shadow. She glances back to where her parents and brother...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
Georgia Postcard
I. Atlanta The black men are fine and abundant at the airport. The women have spent many hours on their hair. II. Sixty-Five MPH All-u-can eat, boiled shrimp, fried fish....