1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...existed in name only. Mississippi constructed a single park for black citizens, Carver Point on Grenada Lake. On paper, Carver Point was equal in size and provided the same amenities...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...a depression caused by troubles in the coal mines." He hoped to find songs sung by miners that would tap into the pathos of a recent past when rural Americans...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...East for thirty-five million dollars. Following the discovery of contaminated soil from a misplaced sewer line, Ponce Park LLC purchased the City Hall East building in 2006 for thirty-three million...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Mississippi had the largest proportion—14 percent. Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Alabama followed at 11 to 12 percent. Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in US households was relatively small, the study of their lives and their migrations is illuminating.8 It is impossible to fully assess the numbers of Native children "adopted" by US whites during...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...arrest location to their residence was 1.7 miles, with a median distance of 1.1 miles. The maximum distance was 6.8 miles, the minimum less than 0.1 miles, with a mode...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...of belief and believability in revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story—and their Louisiana. Student Videos and Interviews "Still/Immobile 6 Minutes" "Still/Immobile 6 Minutes," Mercer Hathorn and James Peck, 2006 A film made...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
She was my grandfather's second wife. Coming late to him, she was the same age his first wife had been when he married her. He made my grandmother a young...