DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...jobs where I've just pushed a broom all day. All day long eight hours just pushin' a broom. Physically exhausting, emotionally exhausting. Most of it is construction [work]. But there's...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...churches throughout the United States, Anne Braden has screened in Austin, Louisville, Lexington, Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Vancouver with more viewings scheduled. Kentucky Public Television (KETKY) has rebroadcast...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...the multiple ways that information was gathered, interpreted, and networked in the early South" (96). In most instances of cross-cultural communication, the who mattered just as much (if not more)...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...children with his slave Sally Hemings, and that subject was still hanging in the air. Across the state line, it seemed, the ghost of Monticello lingered in Mount Airy.1Cynthia Wu,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Texas Gladden but, in Cunningham's words, "it was marred by its tight structure." By contrast, Cohen's film transcended simple depictions of folk musicians playing their instruments. Most viewers, Cunningham believed,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almo*]}*st all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...ordinary objects that remain from past generations, must be examined in "new and imaginative ways" to achieve "a different appreciation for what life is today, and was in the past."...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...their best friend they called him. But 1966, you know, that was two years before they even admitted the first black student to study on this campus. They'd happily plant...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...For most of these Southern protestors, this was the first time they had organized or participated in a protest march. Other more modest protests occurred throughout the South, with 5,000...