Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...offer services to tourists on the street—ranging from help finding the "best" nearby restaurant to sexual favors. Nearly all Cubans are underemployed, even though most are better educated and receive...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...(New York: State University of New York Press, 1999). Challenged by the economic competition of freed people who sought urban factory jobs and attempted to purchase rural farms, in addition...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...wrote his friend Ross Grosman in a letter from Kentucky in 1959, "this leaves me with a strange sense of freedom in relation to what I finally do produce —...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Press, 2001), 140. In 1942, the federal government had established the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency, headquartered in Georgia and tasked with creating malaria-free zones around military sites....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...refutes this claim. National Park Service, "Stephen Site Bulletin," www.nps.gov/maca/stephen.pdf. Here is Willis's oft-cited account of his first view of Stephen Bishop: The ladies of this party were talking with...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Association. In addition to hymn singing during the service, members gathered to sing hymns before the start of the service, a practice which continues today. Fellowship at a nearby home...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...where he was getting medication for hypertension, heart problems, and early-onset diabetes. Top, Unemployed coal miner uses the services of Free Health Clinic, Clay, WV, 2005. Bottom, Miner holds medications and...