African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...eight large crazy-pieced blocks arranged around the central star. Starting in the center of each nineteen-inch foundation square, Nannie worked outward, adding pieces by hand, until the foundation was covered....
Failed Memory Exercise
...the man without a nose Like a pencil point ground to a nub and breaking There against the efflorescence of the barbershop, And stare again into that hole beneath the...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...streets and shotgun houses—both hallmarks of milltown design—and with the Fulton Mill smokestacks looming mutely in the background, the neighborhood is saturated with remnants of its industrial past. But what...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...of the Hub City Writers Project," is a literary community built around ecological ideas. Lane acknowledges that the scientific concepts in ecology have shifted in the more than thirty years...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...