Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...these different groups, and to what extent did their treatment reflect prejudices against the various "others" (such as prostitutes and African Americans) popularly associated with VD? While many historical VD...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...and had PCB body burdens three times that of whites. PCB Activist Herman Frazier protests Monsanto's Sweet Valley/Cobbtown relocation plan, Anniston, Alabama, 1996. Photo by Bill Wilson, Anniston Star. Reproduced...
Encountering COVID
...gas pump this week. Valerie, North Carolina State Senator—December 2020 Photograph of Senator Valerie Foushee courtesy of author. On March 3, I was attending a conference in Charlotte, and I...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...poem "Bunk Richardson." Jake Adam York reads the poem "Walt Whitman in Alabama." About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
Fish, Montgomery Island, Arkansas, 2005
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...which was delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama," January 14, 1963, Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/voices/id/2952/rec/. George Wallace justified his segregationist stance by invoking states'...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
The Liminal Site
Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...men and youth make up the vast majority of this migration, but the number of women and children migrants has increased steadily since 1990.14Smith, “Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees.”...