A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to Montgomery, Alabama, to join in the March to Selma. Upon learning of Mary's flight, Sibley called Martin Luther King and asked him the personal favor of having one of...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...18. While Montgomery, Alabama had electric streetcars in 1886, it took until 1889 for the first electric streetcar to run on Atlanta streets.11Martin, 23. Touring Ponce de Leon Park While...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2017). Earlier in his career, Suitts served as...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...or 1824, (the birth is listed variously as Virginia and District of Columbia). Andrew married Marian Butler on October 15, 1844, and later married a woman Susan, born about 1829,...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...questions about water pollution at sites like the Kanawha Coal Load Out Facility in Montgomery, West Virginia. Another group of images depicts valley fill waste impoundments, where coal companies dump...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...values. . . . When I walked away, I realized that we had only reluctantly agreed on a concept—feminism—as the informing voice of our values, and then could not/would not...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...