Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Kevin Kruse, "White Flight," Southern Spaces, November 28, 2005. Houses which had been family-owned became devalued rental properties. The park site went through several distinct phases as ownership changed. For a...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...iron guns and stacks of cannonballs (Figures 20–26). A plaque erected by Florida's Daughters of the American Revolution memorializes American prisoners of war captured by British troops and held during the...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Me a Bride: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride-Doll Marriage," American Ethnologist 28, no. 4 (2001): 854–880. These practices are consistent with vernacular African American grave decorations widely documented...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...customs, and practices designed to assure that African Americans could not vote or could not have any political influence if they were allowed to vote in small numbers in border...
Editors
...Video Producer Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Emory University Editorial Board Carol Anderson Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies Department of African American Studies Emory University 550 Asbury...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...change and isolation in the Ozark Mountain Region of Missouri," The American Journal of Sociology 41 (1936), 435–446. Art Gallaher Jr., Fifteen Years Later (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961)....
The Black Belt
...those parts of northern cities having heavy African American populations. Making the 1927 journey described in Black Boy (American Hunger), Richard Wright traveled from Mississippi and Tennessee to arrive among tens...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Americans and told of hardships they faced under segregation, Raymond spent as much time telling about the joys and aspirations of his characters as he did the awfulness of the...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...about affecting social change. Using pictures as a tool for social change was my earliest motivation in photography, although my illusions about affecting change in anyone have evolved over the...