Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...the early eighties, Allied started shutting down parts of our operation and transferring them to a non-union facility south of here in Alabama. The jobs did not stay in Alabama...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...from Chattanooga by Scottsboro, Alabama, through the Tennessee Valley to Memphis; from Memphis through the Marked Tree area where the tenant farmers union was active and on to Little Rock...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Folkways radio series courtesy of Alabama Center for Traditional Culture. Image of Wiregrass Singers from Alabama Center for Traditional Culture. Sacred Harp as Folk Tradition Is Sacred Harp a...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...24, 1832, 3, and James Nisbet's announcement of his law practice in Vann's Valley, Floyd County, April 20, 1833, 3, all in The Southern Banner, http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu. As the year closed,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...administered."14Lucille Griffith, Alabama: A Documentary History to 1900 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1968), 461. The following year, the executive committee of the all-white Democratic and Conservative Party of Alabama...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...A Primitive Baptist Song Tradition. Montgomery, AL: Alabama Folklife Association, 1999, 92. Shape-note songsters like The Sacred Harp, first published in 1844 just three years after Lloyd’s hymnal, incorporate some...
Birth Right
...Statistics. Infant Mortality Slideshow. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Public Health, 2008. Advocates assert that midwives could also help lower the state's high infant mortality rate of 9.5 deaths per 1,000...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...the idea of "dirtiness" imbues a form of southern authenticity. This dirtiness can exist across the South with local variants. In the case of the Alabama-based duo Dirty, a reviewer...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Literary Revolt in the Humor of the Old Southwest," Louisiana Historical Quarterly XXXIX (1956): 143-151. Eugene Current-Garcia, "Alabama Writers in the Spirit," Alabama Review (October 1957): 243-269. Willard Thorp, "Suggs...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...of Kansas, 1996). Manganiello challenges modernization narratives in southern history through his analysis of private electric companies. As he notes, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has long overshadowed these companies,...