Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
When the Border Crossed Me
...extensively so I can learn and teach others. My own farm is but a memory. My latest book, entitled Border Odyssey: Travels Along the U.S./Mexico Divide, is a memoir, a...
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Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...subsidy programs. The Federal Extension Service (FES) offered advice on the latest farming techniques, organized 4-H clubs for rural youth, and established home demonstration clubs for rural women. The Farmers...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...himself from ruling on a case alleging that the state Republican Party "improperly limited" the influence of African American and other minority voters in North Carolina in the latest round...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...or fourth whitest state in the country.14According to the latest United States Census estimates, West Virginia is the fourth-whitest state in the Union. ANN: West Virginia is very white, but...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...their presence did not necessarily invert or challenge white supremacist codes. In the Jackson Tract, black foremen served under the command of the white bosses who paid them to coerce...