White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Stuff: Looking through the Window of a Jim Crow Train," New York Amsterdam News, November 13, 1943, 8B. The rudeness continued inside the Jim Crow car. "The conductor appropriates two...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...of Sharecroppers in the New Deal (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965); and Donald Holley, Uncle Sam's Farmers: The New Deal Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley (Urbana: University of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and the Mainsprings of American Politics (New York: New Press, 1997); Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw, "After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of its rambling complexity. There are a number of reasons why this project is important. To begin with, the musical traditions of southern Louisiana, outside of New Orleans, remain only...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...when she said, "This is just wonderful. It's like a whole new life."11Medlin quoted in Minchin, Don't Sleep with Stevens!, 170. On verdicts in class-action discrimination lawsuits, see MacLean, Freedom...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...not leaving public schools, department says,” New Hampshire Bulletin, Mar. 22, 2022, https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/mosteducation-freedom-account-recipients-not-leaving-public-schools-department-says/; News Service Florida, “New report shows nearly 123,000 new students received Florida school vouchers in 2023,” NBC...
Religion and the US South
...of new Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, as well as a new presence of Quakers, Lutherans, German Reformed Methodists, and pietistic Protestant sects. All of these new religious influences appealed to...