Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...of a nationwide protest against the practice, organized by the National Afro-American Council in 1899.1Rev. D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynching," Indianapolis Recorder, June 10, 1899, reprinted on...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...O'Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984), 196. Fitzhugh Lee was the other appointee. Union veteran McKinley recognized that appointments of former Confederates...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...variation of racial segregation across the metropolitan region (see Maps 1 and 2). Map 1. African American Isolation In Metro-Atlanta: Percentage of African American Students in Predominately Minority High Schools...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Flor, 1989 [1980]) and Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 54–89; Dain Borges, "'Puffy, Ugly, Slothful, and Inert': Degeneration in Brazilian Thought,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007), 287–297. Victoria Earle Matthews, poet, novelist, journalist,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Yeller (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956). Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1961). William Armstrong, Sounder (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1969). It wasn't...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...move through the world compelled by important motive. The characterizations are swift and precise, rooted in gesture, speech and action."2Suzanne Berne, "Swamped," New York Times Book Review (22 Sept. 1996): 16. Kirkus Reviews 11...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Subgroup 2, Series 41, Box 1, Department of Agriculture, Georgia Archives; Hal Allen, "Air War Set in Macon Area on White-Fringed Beetle," Macon Telegraph, July 15, 1946, 1; "Battle against...
Encountering COVID
...up on July 31. I knew that on August 1 I would have no house, no spouse, no job, and no kids to take care of. And the big critical...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...of dating and place of publication, see Metcalf, 89-97; Lowens and Britton, 115-37; Bealle 269, n. 1). This compilation of primarily American music incorporated shape-notes, or patent-notes, for the first...