A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...History of the Shadow (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002), 27. Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth Century Fox, 2012. Beasts of the Southern Wild is about...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...six-year-old boy who died when "plant spray" spilled on his leg; and many others.65News clipping: "Spray Poison Kills Two Tots," March 17, 1954, Folder: Toxicology-General, Box 3, Record Group 26,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...tax credit vouchers. The Georgia Department of Revenue does not use tax records to verify the self-reporting of those receiving the tax credits or vouchers.19Carl Davis, Tax Avoidance Continues to...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...when an explosion tore through the school annex of Miami's Orthodox Temple Beth El. Such was the strength of the blast that local residents thought a plane crash had woken...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Cuban Democracy (Torricelli) Act and the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which codified divisions between the nations and tightened the grip of the US economic embargo in an effort to force political...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...of Trinidad, Colorado, was getting a lot of attention, and Channel 4 and a US partner made a six-episode series called "Sex Change Hospital" that aired on More4 in the...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...3, Box 39; Division of Negro Service, PPFA [Planned Parenthood Federation of America], June 23, 1942, Folder 8, Box 39, Margaret Sanger Papers (unfilmed), Sophia Smith Collection, New Hampton, MA....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...