Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...that white workers increasingly found new opportunities elsewhere, chicken plants faced an ever mounting need for cheap labor. Mississipi's method, pamphlet, n.d. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Robert Darnton, "An Early Information Society: News and Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris," American Historical Review, Vol. 105 no 1, www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html. For an excellent overview of the approaches to print culture...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...St. Thomas' Church, near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-030968-M5. Marion Post Wolcott, Parishoners peeling potatoes for...
Old River deer, Old River Control Structure, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 2011
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
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...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in May 1970, and first published in the Ladder 11/12 (August/September 1970). Charis's owners, as we will see, welcomed this type of involvement. Over time the store itself, founded as...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...tip of metropolitan Atlanta. Passing time waiting for work. Canton, Georgia. Photo by Terry Easton, August 2003. If Francisco Castillo is unable to find his uncle in Chamblee, he may...