Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...knew that in order to give back to people in Guatemala and in Florida that I needed to make a bilingual film in support of the day labor organization in...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...2010, in author's possession. Southerners for Economic Justice continued organizing in the Carolinas after the 1980 settlement. Its "job rights workshops" in unorganized plants in the Carolinas developed into the...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...in public schools. Just as the Atlanta region's increasing suburbanization of minority group members has not translated into the greater integration of its neighborhoods, so too has it not translated...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...Anhhuy Do is a graduate student in history at Princeton University. Born and raised in Nashville, he is an aspiring scholar of Vietnamese refugees and Asian American history in the US South....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...in 2010, and the NOLA Hip-Hop Archive, which I founded in 2012 and is housed at the Amistad Research Center.4The NOLA Hip-Hop Archive is the first university-affiliated rap archive in...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...need to nurture the idea of reviewing, critiquing, and writing about visual art. It is important, because art movements are rarely reported on in real time. For this reason, I enjoy...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Rasmussen back in 1978 and he appreciated the work that I did in that era when I was active in not only helping miners but also advocating improvements in state...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...If a camp is in need of new dishes or other items, this fund may be used in case of financial need. The Donation Treasury is used for paying utility...