Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...one. It took about five years of research and production to make the film. Sadly, due to cut-backs in public funding, I doubt that this documentary could be made today....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...professing Christianity, the discriminating conditions under which the Negro is living today in Atlanta, Georgia—supposedly one of the most progressive cities in the South." Julian Bond: It caused a shock...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...