Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...violence, and the challenges we face as a nation continuously confronted with difference. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi....
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...service economy; music and cultural workers; sex workers; the Global South; African American labor history; Latino and migrant workers; gender and labor activism; and migration throughout the South. Please submit...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...and data from archives with digital technology. The Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website represents a new, interactive way to learn." Erica Bruchko, US history and African American studies librarian...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...place takes primacy over concerns about queer urban similarities and differences. Old Fourth Ward Inspired by the oral history of Freddie Styles, a Georgia-born African American man, John Q's first...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the project; Kevin Glover, Emory web developer; Chris Sawula, history graduate student, ECDS fellow, and photo researcher; and Erica Bruchko, a U.S. history and African American studies librarian at the...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and evanescent print forms. Hulan provides new knowledge about hymn writers, the role of African Americans in frontier hymnody, and the relationship between print, manuscript, and performance. The prominence of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...my work has evolved into a more personal and intimate view of the city and its people.” In this clip, Simone discusses Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., Atlanta’s first African American...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...African American and white men are cooking together, and wanted to know more about what was happening in this integrated outdoor kitchen. Looking at the curated series, where the white...