Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...nineteen months. Starting in 1812, Charles Tinney was listed several times in local District of Columbia newspapers as receiving letters at the city post office. On December 2, 1817, he married...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
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,...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...small town of Woodstock. However, although Woodstock is only about thirty miles equidistant from the metropolitan centers of both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama's largest city, the podcast deceptively portrays the...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...is the largest city in the state, with a population of approximately 123,000 within city limits and of over 700,000 for the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Major employers include government,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...taking a serious look, and the city chickens movement is gaining ground around the South. In 2008, Gulfport, Florida's city council passed new regulations that allow residents to keep chickens,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the turn of the century. Race in America, particularly in the South, has tended to override ethnicity. Race and ethnicity, however, overlap. Both terms incorporate ancestry, geographical origins, and cultural...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...who ate the most bread suffered lasting neurological damage, but all survived.30Richard M. Garrett, "Toxicity of DDT for Man," Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama 17, no. 2 (1947):...