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...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...of my life in which I became aware of the coal industry and of strip mining, partly because we could see strip mining from our house, and my dad talked...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Cherokee Nation in Georgia as Cherokee County. A bill the following year subdivided Cherokee County into nine additional counties. Approximately five hundred square miles of land bordering Alabama was designated...
Montgomery, Alabama images
Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...
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...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...through discourses around immigration and work, in recent decades relying upon tropes of the "immigrant work ethic," racially-coded language about "lazy" workers, and the socio-economic category of "labor shortages." We...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...cemeteries around the city. Early references to the area that became Mount Zion Cemetery are to the "Methodist Episopal Burial Ground of Georgetown," the "Old Methodist Burial Ground," or the "Colored...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“pen” formed by four benches of singers, gave the “key note sound all around, and then as they sang he walked around and around. When a part, like the bass...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...trip to Alabama was the five-month-old strike, called by the United Mine Workers of America, of over a thousand workers in Tuscaloosa County. They took a big pay cut four...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...