Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...Chronicles is on display in Emory's Manuscript and Rare Books Library until May 16, 2014 as a part of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL"...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Jim Dixon. We think of Alabama as a deep red "right-to-work" state, yet it has a long history of union organizing. In Bessemer, just half an hour east on Interstate...
Anniversary
...York reads the poem "Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road." Poem text. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
ROA's graffiti at 209 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012
ROA is a graffiti artist from Ghent, Belgium. He made this graffiti for a conference organized by Living Walls Atlanta in 2011. It is located on the east side of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...2009. The city of Anniston in northeast Alabama (population 24,276 in 2000), once the state's fourth largest city, now ranks twelfth in the state. Racial strife is only one antecedent...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Burn piles at the site of the Little Ivy Church Cemetery looking East on US 19, Mars...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...the impact of transnational migration on gender and ethnic relations among Maya and Ladino people in Eastern Guatemala. She currently resides in Richmond, Virginia and is an assistant professor at...