Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...don't want to ally with him" (1). Thirteen years later, Reverend D. Leon Everett, the lone black member of the Houston school board, and a leader of the local chapter...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Discovers the South noted that Daniels "began" his journey in two different places, both Raleigh, where he actually started, and Washington, DC. "You come south from anywhere through Washington," he...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...indicate that the Claxton residents wrote to multiple government agencies, at all levels, across the state and in Washington, DC. But the stretch of highway outside of Claxton was not...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...in the background. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 The Misión Católica de Nuestra Señora de las Américas. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 ...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Latino populations have been growing faster than in other areas of the country.7Richard Fry, Latino Settlement in the New Century, October 23, 2008 (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center), http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/96.pdf. For...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Advertiser, May 19, 1866; Lowell Daily Citizen and News, May 22, 1866; US Statutes at Large, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, DC, 1866), 589–90. The illegitimate birth resulted from a...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...obtained by the Washington Post.27Emma Brown and Peter Jamison, “The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry,” Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/. Few backers of universal...