Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic slave trade, Eltis has been instrumental to this effort. Through information on the years, ships, numbers of captive Africans delivered, and embarkation and disembarkation locations obtained from Voyages, the...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Bunk Richardson
...weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
At Cornwall Furnace
...and give it back. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Scarecrow
...us, Father, the use of our hands. Published in Please (Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009). Published: 4 March 2010 © 2010 Jericho Brown and...
Leavenworth newspaper
...the State of Kansas. Blood was shed on Kansas soil for the negro." Leavenworth Times. Untitled. March 7, 1888. "Near Eskridge, a poor negro was treated to the methods...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below The Poverty Line in Alabama Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...Below poverty line %: 15.1 Per capita income: $16,010 Houston Below poverty line %: 15.0 Per capita income: $18,759 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...never now, never going to be equals and you know why? One of us is dead." (Collected Stories, 604) Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces ...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...thinking. "I wonder. I wonder." We shall overcome, We shall overcome We shall overcome some day. I WONDER. I really WONDER. Published: 11 March 2008 © 2008 Southern Spaces...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...campfire on the slag. They drift, split in lunchcounter windows then crossing on streetcorners where firemen hosed the marchers down, attack dogs gnashing at their heels. In Kelly Ingram Park,...