Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...added). What follows is excerpted from Padgett's "Preface" and a glimpse into Bill Smith's participation in the first Atlanta Pride march on June 27, 1971. This is one of the...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...of Science that recover a more inclusive early American history.5Dominick LaCapra, Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), 165. About the Author Michele Navakas is an...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
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,...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...and Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Sharon Bridgforth is a writer and activist, and a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...ultimately came with added costs.8Letter from Mrs. B.C. Plyler to Prince Preston September 7, 1950. For Plyler, the problem with Claxton became apparent in March of 1945, when she fell...