Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...1790 to 1990, retrieved from www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/table-16.pdf; Table P1 Total Population from both the Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1), 100-Percent Data and the 2010 Census Summary File 1, retrieved...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...at all.”12David Nevin and Robert E. Bills, The Schools that Fear Built: Segregationist Academies in the South (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1976), 11. Private and Public: Vastly Disparate Students White...
Religion and the US South
...them in what would become a border area of the South. Becoming a Sectional Religion, 1830–1880 The democratic funeral of 1848, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1848. Lithograph by Abel and...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Land Policy Review 3 (Jan.-Feb. 1940): 4-5; Daniel, Breaking the Land, 170-75. For the economic shape of rural re-development in the Bootheel, see Roll, Spirit of Rebellion, 116, 161. In...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...eds. Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994), 175- 176, 181. The Tennessee Jamboree must be understood in the broader context of the barn dance genre, and...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...and Boundaries for Slave Family Formation: Tobacco Labor and Demography in Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1817–1886," CLAR 29.1 (2020): 139–160. A reflexive piece that considers how sugar's ascent has shaped...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...endless pain/And in immense perdition sinks the soul."3Ibid, 15. Oxford, Georgia: The College Campus Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor), Plan of the Town of Oxford, Georgia, 1837. Courtesy of Emory University...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...March 22, 1958; and "Presented in Charity Show [Mitch Thomas photo]," Philadelphia Tribune, April 22, 1958. The fan gossip shared in these columns documented the growth of a youth culture among...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...over the centuries.6Magee quoted in Freeman, "Journey of the Spirit." Interview with Gwen Magee and Larry Morrisey. Personal interview. Jackson, Mississippi, March 29, 2007. Gwen discusses the difficulty of capturing...