Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...the whole freaking system in the trash,' school voucher sponsor says," NewsChannel 5 Nashville, Apr. 15, 2024, https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-were-trying-to-throw-the-whole-freaking-system-in-the-trash-school-voucher-sponsor-says Faith leaders fighting for North Carolina's public schools, Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb....
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...
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...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...deindustrialization, they increasingly fell short of migrants' and residents' expectations.19Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis; Rebecca Leung, "Going Home To The South," CBS News, June 12, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-558375.html. Importantly...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...1937, Jonathan Daniels, the thirty-five-year-old editor of the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer, set out on a ten-state tour of the South. The odometer of his Plymouth read 22,246.2...
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...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...because their program quality was superior," she writes, "the fragmentary evidence indicates that many listeners preferred their local and independent station, and loved announcers, singers, storytellers, and readers of news...