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...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Washington Evening Star writer to later reminisce that opossum suppers were "great vote-getters in the south."69"'Possum for President in Southern Style," Evening Star (Washington, DC), Dec. 22, 1907, 3, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1907-12-22/ed-1/seq-51/....
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...indicate that the Claxton residents wrote to multiple government agencies, at all levels, across the state and in Washington, DC. But the stretch of highway outside of Claxton was not...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Advertiser, May 19, 1866; Lowell Daily Citizen and News, May 22, 1866; US Statutes at Large, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, DC, 1866), 589–90. The illegitimate birth resulted from a...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Metro Atlanta." in Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America, ed. Audrey Singer, et al. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Families and Communities Left Behind Maya immigrants such...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...calls to visibility as a form of liberation. Frank Kameny and Mattachine Society of Washington members marching, New York City, New York, 1970. Photograph by Kay Tobin. Courtesy of the...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...were few established businesses, mainstream organizations or tradition-minded civic leaders around. There were, however, plenty of cheap rental properties available and an "anything is possible" view of the future.6According to...