"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Black woman's catching fifteen opossums in Muscogee County, Georgia, in 1877.31"Foraging on our Exchanges," The LaGrange (GA) Reporter, Oct. 11, 1877, 2, https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015287/1877-10-11/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=10%2F11%2F1877&city=LaGrange&date2=10%2F11%2F1877&words=&searchType=advanced¬text=&index=2&sequence=0&proxdistance=5&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=&page=1. Enslavers may have tolerated—and on occasion, celebrated—antebellum...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...appliquéd fabrics. 16"x11.75"(closed), 16"x11.75"x23" (open). Collection of the Gwendolyn Ann Magee Estate, D. E. Magee, administrator. Deep Into the Woods, one of Magee's later works, offers a purely sculptural means...
On Fair Use
...of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." The limits of fair use doctrine continue to spark controversy as academic...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Coast, 146. By taking advantage of the area's positioning with regard to the New York-centered rap industry, a small number of talented producers and artists found shortcuts to pop stardom,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in Twentieth Century America [New York: Columbia University Press, 1991]: 197). This was the case in the Little Five Points lesbian-feminist community; most of the young women who were part of...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Virginia, the Sea Board Air Line Railway ran along the South's eastern coast, terminating in Florida. Despite its name, it owned no airplanes. Before the days of air travel, "air...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Advertiser, May 19, 1866; Lowell Daily Citizen and News, May 22, 1866; US Statutes at Large, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, DC, 1866), 589–90. The illegitimate birth resulted from a...