Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Locheridge is to come down here and interview me for the Sunday supplement. You will probably find me tricked out in the personality of the Georgia Farm Girl or Good-Earth-Loving...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the country and the state's Asian and Latino populations more than doubled in the last decade. Occupational opportunities in construction, food processing, and textiles are attracting increasing numbers of immigrants.4R....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...American Revolution recast as a socialist revolt, freeing the young workers of Okemah, Oklahoma, from the tyranny of a ten-year-old King George. These exaggerated exploits not only further Guthrie's socialist...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
Introduction—Salt Creek and City Nature Sunshine City beer can at Tropicana Field, which was built over razed African American neighborhood, St. Petersburg, Florida. Photograph courtesy of Marcel Hartwig. To place...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...hopes that Bishop's "last breath may be a free one" (419)—is removed by every writer who borrowed liberally (sometimes without attribution) from her, we might read the "Jordan" River as...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...trade."10Bell, Major Butler's Legacy, 511. The advertisement that Bryan published in The Savannah Republican began on February 8 and ran daily, except on Sundays, through March 3, the last date...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...is often difficult, however, distinguishing between what is truly notable historically and that which is mere post-election chatter. Map of the Sunbelt (marked in red) One noteworthy aspect of the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...with the Emancipation Proclamation. Instead, during the period called "the Reconstruction" in the southern US—1860-1880—freed slaves struggled to make a revolution in this country—a revolution that would have meant legal,...