Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act/. Rally to End Gerrymandering, Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. Photograph by Flickr user League of Women Voters. Copyright © 2019. The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...their own visions right here at home. We longed to send our yawp over the roofs of the world, too, to live for music and art and sex, to be...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...are with us, we will feed you; if not, we will kill you.” According to the investigations of two human rights commissions, the vast majority of human rights abuses—torture, assassinations,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...6, 2014, A1; Dexter Mullins, "Mississippi to Make History by Opening Civil Rights Museum," Aljazeera America, October 23, 2013, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/mississippi-civilrightsmuseumtomakehistory.html. For more on civil rights tourism see, Owen J. Dwyer...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...women who joined the civil rights movement did so through her involvement I the church (Sara Evans,Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...symbolized by the Mask.10Glissant troubles the transparent/opaque binary through his "right to opacity," a right for what one scholar understands as "stubborn shadows." See Nicole Simek, "Stubborn Shadows," symplokē 23, no. 1-2...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...General William T. Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant, and Admiral David Dixon Porter (left to right) on board the River Queen docked at City Point, Virginia, on March 28, 1865....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...changing race relations—including desegregation of schools and public facilities in the 1960s, the growing Civil Rights Movement (in large part spearheaded by Atlanta's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and the...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...right-wing think tanks and "public interest" propaganda outlets. After crushing a number of moderate North Carolina Republicans over the last ten years by funding their more conservative opponents, he gained...