Mississippi Delta
...the site of a slaveholders' empire and forcing them to confront new visions of the Delta among African Americans. Freedmen from across the South saw in the post-Civil War Delta...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...digitized materials makes American Memory the most diverse and comprehensive digital archive of American history and culture freely available and easily accessible to the public.4See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/ for more information about...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Joseph AME Church. Shortly after the rally, 1,500 African Americans headed to Howard Johnson's to continue their protests. These protests persisted throughout the summer as part of the "Freedom Highways"...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the 2016...
Leavenworth newspaper
Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...broke free from their enslaving masters and ran the show by themselves. Having made a fortune in a decade, they retired to western North Carolina, bought land, built houses, married...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...