"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...and over-acted pathos, the Up Stairs patrons "stopped calling these plays melodramas and started calling them 'nellydramas.'"26Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 25. Several of these productions were written and...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018); Rosa Carasquillo, Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880–1910 (Lincoln:...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...camp "for lone men who are under care in the United States Public Health Service clinic.108Ibid. Inside Camp Garraday, date unknown. Courtesy of the Garland County Historical Society and Elliott...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...and Catherine Pancake. Ann and Catherine collaborated on the production of Black Diamonds, a 2006 documentary film about mountaintop removal and the fight for coalfield justice in West Virginia. Did...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Divided Family in Civil War America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 196-198; Cohabitation Register, Caroline County, 19; Cohabitation Register, Smyth County; W. Storer How to Orlando Brown,...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...money owed him. He called the person's cell phone and was promised payment, but he never received it. Staff at the hiring hall in Duluth's Calvary Christian Fellowship assisted José,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria Carter Syphax, ca. 1870. Bottom, Charles Syphax (1791–1869) and William B. Syphax, ca. 1865. Daguerreotypes by unknown creator. Courtesy of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 6408...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as attention-getting. WDBJ Interview with Vivian Carter Mason. Vivian Carter Mason presented a calm and reasoned account of the first day of integrated schools in Norfolk. She affirmed that both...