Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...seventy-five and one hundred Irish singers attended the Ireland Convention, joined by sizable groups of singers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland, as well as a pair...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...operations in 1956. "Grant provides an all-out sponsor and agency service," Billboard reported in 1961. "He attends sales meetings, store openings and maintains close identification with his sponsors' products off...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...opportunity would open. Ironically, Black business in Atlanta thrived on the crest of segregation. Whether in personal services that were a carry-over from slavery, or in life insurance in service...
"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...