Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...the band in promoting that year's festival, Rebirth was initially offered $3,000, significantly less than the $75,000 paid to national headlining acts. Rebirth was able to re-negotiate their compensation, but...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...stations, Atlanta's Terminal Station was not unusual in its design. Most stations built during the segregation era routed Black travelers through separate entrances. Completed in 1899, Forsyth Station, also in...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...signatures in opposition to any sort of desegregation. Some Protestant churches and civic clubs formally pledged support to one side or the other, but by far most such institutions and...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...straight-forward manner to best present the car and its owner. Car club members suggested locations for their significance in the local African American communities: Old Bethel A.M.E. Church, Buck Hall...
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...marriage illegal denied to mixed race children all claims to White property and, more significantly, to White identity. The codes that restricted property ownership and the vagrancy laws that permitted...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...used during the era of enslavement remain unmemorialized, carrying no sign or evidence that these places were as significant to the geography of enslavement as European ports such as Lisbon,...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...