Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...the American Psychological Association recommended Ruth for the Arkansas Community Service Award with the argument that “Ruth’s efforts in promoting the conference have remained unflagging. Most impressively, Ruth has served...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...In addition to musical recording and touring, Leavell manages his pine forested Charlane Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices...
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...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...(Narrator): Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as, "a city too busy to hate." Yet, Atlanta, like many other southern cities, resisted...
Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities
...Atlanta’s carefully managed image of racial moderation. Centered on the 1960s, the installment traces how a white business-led power structure promoted stability and economic growth while limiting meaningful desegregation. Topics...
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...submissions that perpetuate or promote social inequality. While we publish many experienced writers and photographers, our journal is dedicated to supporting graduate students, early-career scholars, and activists throughout the publication...
How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act
...Attorney General’s young Republican recruits who sought to overturn the Supreme Court's prior cases about reapportionment and voting rights. When he applied for a promotion to become a Deputy Assistant...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...familiar format of a pieced block. Originally made from silk and tie-dyed to create decorative patterns in red or blue, bandannas were among textiles imported from India in the eighteenth...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...on my songs. 2. DeSoto speaks I have seen him before all over the world. This Indian, this Tuscaloosa, this red man with the black name dares to think he...