The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
...DC: University Press of America, 1980); Simon Wendt, “God, Gandhi, and Guns: The African American Freedom Struggle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1964–1965,” Journal of African American History 89, no. 1 (Winter...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and often in the best interests of the enslaved. The greatest obstacle slaves faced to freedom, Duden believed, was their racial inferiority. He asserted that no amount of education or...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Guale, Timucua, Calusa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Upper Creek, Lower Creek, and Seminole), Africans both free and enslaved, and various groups of pirates and adventurers. Frontispiece, 1775. Etching by Bernard Romans. Originally...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...for lifetime healthcare. One miner had lost his house and was sleeping in the local union hall. I followed him to a free clinic in Clay County, some distance away,...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...itself—and economists highlighting the internationally significant monetary values of the Coast's ecosystems.11David Batker, S. Mack, F. Sklar, W. Nuttle, M. Kelly, and A.M. Freeman, "The Importance of the Mississippi Delta Restoration...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...who were so smug in their condemnation of our inaction. They’d say, "Listen, we’re freeing our nations. We’re leading revolutions. We’re escaping the yoke of colonialism. All of Africa will...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...United States free of debt, Francisco decided not to pay a coyote (or a "pollero" as some border crossers call them) to help him get from Santa Cruz, Guatemala to...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...irony through emphasizing stereotypes of the free-loving hippie and the provincial redneck. But just how ironic depictions can transcend the dualism of the hippie-redneck alliance with rhetoric that highlights those...