Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...they all acknowledged one another."6Reed, 92–93. In his own family, an adult with light skin color occasionally posed as white to get some prized local delicacy or quicker service from...
Roadside Architecture
...scenes and activities, churches, cotton gins, roadside stores, and many of the people I've encountered along the way—their likenesses as portraits, their worship services, their family reunions, some of the...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Sweep
...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...
Atchison newspaper
...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...
Lawrence newspaper
...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...
Junction City newspaper
Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...