"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 67, no. 2 (2012): 244–80. Doctors believed that this partial immunity to neurosyphilis was a hereditary trait. As the authors of...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of a Sunbelt City that “everywhere you look, cities big and small are trying to get in touch with their inner Austin" (2). Yet as Tretter forcefully argues, the sunny portrayals...
Deep Ellum Blues
...tradition has remained the bluesiest of the regional variations of country music, including the honky tonk classics of Ernest Tubb and Hank Thompson. Another version of a blues/country synthesis returned...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of variegated thread work. The rising sun of this text is not the angry, spiraling sun of other works, but a glowing symbol of purpose and belief in the future....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and unedited production transcripts. Feminists often expressed reservations and concerns about the position of women within SCLC. In the unedited transcript of an interview recorded in Boston on November 1,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Latino populations have been growing faster than in other areas of the country.7Richard Fry, Latino Settlement in the New Century, October 23, 2008 (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center), http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/96.pdf. For...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...