Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...However, the ascension of Jim Crow drove Charleston's black narrators and their truth-be-told accounts of bondage from the public sphere for many decades, complicating but not thwarting Kytle and Roberts'...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...to a physical and legal battle between managers, workers, and Progressive reformers.1"The Story of a Yellow Pine Sextet," American Lumberman 73 (March 5, 1904), 43; "Women Will Help in War...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...a year earlier. Their target was Temple Beth-El in Charlotte, North Carolina. On November 11, 1957, the caretaker discovered six sticks of dynamite concealed at the rear of the synagogue...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...a country music radio variety show, aired between 1953 and 1978 on AM station WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee. Across twenty-five years, the Blue Valley Boys and Girls, the show's featured...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Cuban Democracy (Torricelli) Act and the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which codified divisions between the nations and tightened the grip of the US economic embargo in an effort to force political...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Carolina and his return home to Durango, Mexico. Brother Towns examines the lives of migrant day workers and the receptions they receive moving between Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and Jupiter, Florida. In...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...programs served to solidify the image of the black body as carrier of disease and agent of contamination, thereby instigating social fears about differential fertility and racial mixture between blacks...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...the family, what's happened since? Howard: The family came together, was made stronger, understood themselves better, and were better able to talk with each other. Roughly midway through The Joneses,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I wonder if you have observed that 60/40 split, that separation between 60 percent of the state, which does protect LGBT people, and the other 40 percent. Could you tell...