The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...text-book for students and practitioners (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1909), 192. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in public domain. That the story...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...by Howard Emerson, March 1963, quoted in Howard Emerson, "Sharecropper's Strike, 1939" (Senior honors thesis, Southeast Missouri State University, 1963), 41; "Investigation Concerning the Sharecropper Situation Existing in Southeast Missouri,"...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...concentration camps behind barbed wire.24"Georgia: Gene & Junior," Time Magazine, September 7, 1936, 10–11. And last though not at all least, the use of convict labor had a profound and...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...workers who went missing after taking forest industry jobs, a legal, intellectual, and physical battle ignited. Simultaneously, several immigrant workers, subjected to the forest's harsh environment and suffering abuse from...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...on whether they lived east or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those still living in long settled counties in eastern Virginia, which had seen a steady flow of men...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...user Ron Cogswell. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Middle, Woolworth's counter exhibit, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Tim Bounds. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Bottom, Woolworth's Sit-In sculpture, Greensboro,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...mandated racially separate, unequal schools and where segregationists in the 1960s attempted to use private school vouchers to evade the watershed US Supreme Court decision. More than thirty-five states have...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Some slaves, however, used trained dogs to tree opossums at night in wooded areas adjoining plantations. Because hunting and setting traps at night did not directly interfere with daytime farm...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...it led to workers with darker-hued skin being relegated to the most difficult and least desirable jobs. During desegregation efforts, workers' blackness served as the excuse for white supremacists to...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...of Southeast Indian elites saw white slaveholders' interest in incorporating Native children into their plantation homes as particularly useful. With US planters invading the Southeast at unprecedented rates, these Choctaw,...