Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...of Séjour's works to appear in print, he launched a popular and successful literary career, with twenty of his plays produced on the Paris stage between the 1840s and 1860s....
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...do Bye bye little woman now, if you call that gone Better leave your things, baby, thinking all day long Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...line" (as in a straight line drawn in the air) was a term widely used to describe the shortest distance between two points, and it became part of the name...
Our Backward Revolution
...2023). Despite these failures, there have been substantive policy differences between a Republican Party that has consistently reshaped our tax and economic system to benefit the wealthy and Democratic measures...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...those making $25,000 a year. Under the new tax code, a family of four earning one quarter million dollars will receive a $2,434 tax cut while a working family of...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
"Aint that Something?"
...removal coal mining, an extreme version of the already devastating stripmining, was growing more prevalent. The novel foreshadows the intense fights between coal supporters and environmentalists that occurred as more...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...marriages between enslaved men and women was a cause for concern among those working at the highest governmental levels long before Freedmen's Bureau agents arrived to take down names in...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...some material from the presidency of Martin Luther King, III (1997–2003). The records starkly display the differences in leadership styles, particularly between Abernathy and Lowery. Researchers can also chart the...