A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/prospect-of-regional-transit-plan-raises-ire/nQPPb/; Ariel Hart, "Boon for toll lanes, not transit," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 2, 2012, Accessed September 6, 2012, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/boon-for-toll-lanes-not-transit/nQShc/; Steve Visser, "MARTA privatization bill stalls in the Senate," The...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...buildings and equipment, newer textbooks, higher levels of teacher training, smaller pupil-teacher ratios, closer administrative and school board oversight. Protesters in the street on the day Nashville schools were desegregated,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...York: Vintage Books, 2005); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986); Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, The New World, 1939–1946: A...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...there. The freedom of the two most prominent escapees, the Edmonson sisters, was purchased by Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York, where Reverend Beecher famously...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions, Religion and Social Transformation (New York: New York University Press, 2012); Randall Balmer, "The Real Origins of the Religious...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...freeway, Claiborne Avenue. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Photograph by Lewis Watts. Courtesy of Lewis Watts. Throughout New Orleans Suite, the authors also use specific albums to launch and frame their...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Stuff: Looking through the Window of a Jim Crow Train," New York Amsterdam News, November 13, 1943, 8B. The rudeness continued inside the Jim Crow car. "The conductor appropriates two...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Poems and a Pandemic" in Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication, ed. Janet Steiger et al. (New York: Routledge, 2010). And, as a happening, poetry has a particular power to depict...