"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
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...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expected of us in the academy. While "Making Art" is in some few ways similar to our New Orleans "summit," we, during this conference here at Emory University, want to...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Divinity degree and began working for SCLC under Abernathy’s direction. Taylor worked his way from research assistant to the directorship of the department of chapters and affiliates. By 1984, Taylor...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...a way to defund reform that might provide citizenship to anyone not lawfully in the US. Hostility to immigrants has a long tradition in the white South, but it remains a...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...the rights of libraries, not limit the scope of their fair use rights in any way, shape or form. Given the text says "Nothing in this section . . ....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of the Library of Congress. The eightieth anniversary of the arrests brought an unlikely collection of people to Scottsboro: a federal district judge from Detroit; a Broadway producer; a high...
Mapping Souths
...tradition, heritage, culture, and identity. Put another way, we are still reproducing and naturalizing the South as place in an age defined, according to one story (Jameson's postmodern one), by...