Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...registering couples were migrants to Floyd from the same county; for more, see "Joint Migration" in the accompanying application, "Migration and Marriage in Postemancipation Virginia". Men and women formed long-term...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...of my life in which I became aware of the coal industry and of strip mining, partly because we could see strip mining from our house, and my dad talked...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...the time of the 1967 decision, fifteen other (mostly southern) states (Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Delaware)...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Savage, "US Is Suing in Texas Cases Over Voting by Minorities," The New York Times, August 22, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/us/politics/justice-dept-moves-to-protect-minority-voters-in-texas.html. In the future, southern states will no longer have the burden of...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...told me to get out of there," he growls, mimicking the officer's reproach. Fearing that he might be arrested and deported, Francisco did not dare steal water or food. People...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...War until, in 1781, he was mistakenly shot and killed by a friend during a scouting mission. Nancy Miller Nancy Miller Benson (1809-1879) was the wife of Silas Benson and...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...newsprint, Lufkin, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-836. Arthur Rothstein, Community clothesline, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. Library of Congress Prints and...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
..." Also on that Tuesday, Texas Senator Wendy Davis stood and talked for eleven straight hours, singlehandedly defeating a sweeping abortion regulation bill that would have outlawed abortions after twenty...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...underway) of the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern, midwestern, and western cities.16The Great Migration refers to the movement of roughly six million African Americans out of the South...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...MSU Photograph Collection, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 1965. © Michigan State University. The Michigan State University (MSU) Spartans of the mid-1960s provide a second case study. The...