Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...assisting mostly middle-class families but their analysis lumps together zip codes with median household incomes with those more than twice the state median. In Florida, Step Up for Students expanded...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...struggles, leading to voter registration drives, the breaking of the color bar in the town's police force and campaigns against environmental racism. A space that had once been held up...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Episcopal burial grounds, consistent with what is registered on Nannie's headstone. An 1863 Civil War draft registration record shows a Black man, William Tenney, evidently Francis's father, residing on the...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...class and keep them further under the control of credit systems deployed by plantation owners and grocers but also to intimidate the burgeoning rise of Black voter registration taking place...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Registration and Voting, Washington, DC, 1963, 13–14, 65. Most states had few polling places in minority and poor communities. Most southern states had voting rolls with more dead white people...
Residues of Border Control
...an alien in Arizona without carrying registration documents and requires law enforcement officials to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an "illegal...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Rico during the Second World War, the PHS official was privately reprimanded for proposing "methods of registration and identification of prostitutes which seem quite out of line" with the federal...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....