The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...ECDS co-director: Wayne Morse Emory Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) Software Engineering Team Software team manager: Mike Mitchell Project manager: Tonia Edwards LITS Library Tech Services: Jonathan Bodnar, Bethany...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...(xxvii). Wahlstrom also considers the experiences of African Americans and non-slaveholding whites. Contra Rolle's account, southern emigrants to Mexico did not solely represent a "Lost Cause" flight of renegade whites,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...depth. Since race is pervasive in American society, a wide variety of topics and research strategies would be fruitful for study. The development of the African American community in Atlanta,...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...or events and hearing it. For me, it's a powerfully emotional song, because it deals with pride, cultural heritage, and a clear recognition of all the difficulties African Americans have...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...black voters. Over the course of the next three years, the MARTA board invited its critics to the negotiating table and the system was reinvented as a genuine public service...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...group of women employed in maquiladoras) ; the Border Project of the American Friends Service Committee, a group that partnered with the CFO; and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras,...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American literature’s inclusion in the American literary canon and actively supported Native scholars, arguing that no one can have a competent understanding of the history, or literatures, of the Americas,...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...which the "dream" of desegregation, especially in the South where the reality proceeded apace through the 1970s, would be foiled by other realities: white flight, evolving discourses of colorblindness and...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...On Western Subjects: Locating Autobiographical Writing in the North American West (University of Utah Press, 2005). Introduction In his 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory, the American folksinger Woody Guthrie mythologizes...