Junction City newspaper
...south has been cruel to the negroes; that they have bulldozed them from the polls with shot-guns and other means. Denial or explanation does no good. The south now sends...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...the curator of "The One Night Stand Motel Art Show Series" which has been "The One Night Stand at The Ole Miss Motel" in Oxford, Mississippi, and "The One Night...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...to the Bear Branch exit because of the run-off from I-26, Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT boundary marker, near Sams Gap and the Appalachian Trail,...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
#598, Common Meter
Sung to tune of Cleansing Fountain in B.F. White Sacred Harp Cooper Revision (382) 1) There is a house not made with hands Eternal and on high: ...
Scarecrow
...scare a bird. III. Wants to Know Who is my father? Why am I alone? What must this field Feel for the plow? What does the crow love Other than...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...document for inquiry into civil rights movement history and journalism. Popham, Egerton, and their colleagues continually use the language of war to describe the milieu of race relations reporting, but...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). It was easy to get out; people did it all the time. With a day pass, you could catch a bus...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...