Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...crime-ridden underworld of Atlanta in 1948. The city is on the cusp of a civil rights movement that will transform it politically, socially, and spatially. By following the travails of...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...High. Wall labels offer bits of historical context and descriptions of events with a simplicity that matches the understated power of the images. For example, one of several photos identified...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we need to dream (that is, to make into creed, to make tangible) of our complicity as a dangerous, polluting species. Wink and Hushpuppy. Still from Beasts of the Southern...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...the lynching spurred African Americans in the city to stage a public protest led by the minister and activist Montrose W. Thornton. These essays bring to light stories of black...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...language after-school program they have founded in the city for their children. Guirdex analyzed the first gathering of the International Meeting of Black Artists and Writers at the Sorbonne in...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...veracity of a particular photograph depicting the factual and emotional truth of a moment, individual photographs are but fleeting slivers of time cropped from a vast historical narrative. This is...
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