Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...near the campus, but the board denied the request, saying that no cross-racial transfers would be approved until the Supreme Court issued more instructions. Near the end of May, 1955,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...organization would receive the raw footage after the PBS broadcast. Many months later, staff members approached Anne at nearby Appalshop in Kentucky to ask if she could take the raw...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...124. For more on Gaither Homecomings and their role and appeal in southern gospel and beyond, see ibid., 110–136. The Martins first appeared in 1993 on an early Gaither Homecoming...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...racial views in the wake of the Ericson controversy. Over time, he would accept integration, approving of Pauli Murray's failed bid for admission to graduate school at UNC in 1939...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of a cattle fence—an appropriate location, considering the various connections in his songs to horse culture. Who exactly Bornu was remains a mystery. No one with the surname Bornu appears...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...the fact that such an approach would likely require state approval to even appear on area ballots, and Atlanta, as George Hooks, dean of the state senate recently admitted, "has...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...the Stevens campaign did not have the effect on other corporations that ACTWU hoped it would, it promoted women's leadership and a more community-based approach that many organizers adopted in...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1907, Forest History Society archive. In the summer of 1906, one year after Theodore Roosevelt established the US Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot to implement a conservationist policy,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...live in Stantontown at 706 Stanton Avenue. She appears sporadically in the Washington city directory, residing on Stanton Road, as late as 1909. She does not appear in the 1910...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...