In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...care, while many working-age coalminers have been laid off, leaving them with few, if any, healthcare options. UMWA surface mine welder repairs dragline bucket. Boone County, WV, 2005. Working at...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of the least violent acts many of these white men enacted in any given week. Black men, women, and children, as well as many Native people, had long been held...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...book covers most of the 1700s, beginning with the settlement of the Georgia colony and concluding with the aftermath of the American Revolution. The empire of the book's title is...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...the story of a lifetime," it is not the story of any one lifetime but a composite of the experiences of many young black "gay" men in the urban South....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...loved ones as phones begin to work again have allowed everyone to breathe normally for the first time in a week. Outside the city, mandatory evacuations forced many to leave...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...different "Souths," where culture, class, ideology, and the laws emerging from segregation varied by geography in practice and form. Reed came to understand that Black people of all ages had...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...more diverse audiences."4Shady, phone interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. LiFT attendee Mikey P interacts with a series of beat machines from different eras of hip...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...were eligible for public housing in South Carolina. But eligibility and availability are two different things. And many people cannot afford housing officially designated as "affordable." In 2006 the fair...