"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and audiovisual material documenting the SCLC, the collection includes records dating to the founding of the organization in 1957. The vast majority of material covers 1968–2007.4Records from the first ten...
The Shenandoah Valley
...quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea." The Valley's natural resources,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...in 1852. Simpson died in 1876. Joshua McCarter Simpson's writing is remarkable for its force, conviction, moral clarity, and emotional depth. His poems are also frequently witty, both in their...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...politics (examining how social groups redefine or reimagine political engagement; how space/place, public policy, policing, socioeconomics, or other factors affect political participation) Political representation (disparities between constituents and their representatives;...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...Texas's sanction of the attack, the state's adjutant general James Harley asked for the resignation of the Ranger captain responsible for the massacre and discharged all officers involved. Although an...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...the performance, Coley titillates the crowd with a flurry of vocal riffs, drawing from the improvisational styles of both gospel and jazz. The audience's shouts of approval convey their agreement...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...generation who came of age during Jim Crow. Reed writes with a purpose—not to chronicle his own pivotal events, hardships, or personal demons, nor to proclaim general truths. Instead, he...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...where Africans first arrived in North America, is neither the actual place of Africans' first arrival in Virginia (Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, is the actual site) or in North America...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...it was also rank racism. US Solicitor General Elizabeth Preloger argues why Alabama maps are unconstitutional. Merill v. Mulligan oral argument. Audio courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United...