Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...from an individual identifying himself as "General Gordon of the Confederate Underground." "We bombed a temple in Atlanta," intoned the voice. "This is the last empty building we will bomb...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Atlanta region is now second only to the New York City MSA in terms of its number of black homeowners. Between 2000 and 2011, metro Atlanta's black homeowners nearly tripled...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...the letter was to a cotton merchant or to his young son" (36). Later, Wise masterfully employs scant correspondence to reconstruct a trip to Japan, as well as Percy's views...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...were living in a changed and changing world, yet the adults around us seemed to be in denial, clinging to old ideas about life and work and community. The most...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Salvador’s population was of African descent, enslaved and free, while shipping routes—established around the turn of the eighteenth century—directly linked Bahia with West African ports. Anyone walking around Salvador could...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...left Emory to work as a technical product manager in digital media for Turner Broadcasting in 2010. Roundtable participants (top left to bottom right): Frankie Abbott, Mary Battle, Katie Rawson,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...