Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...January 8, 2016, http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/01/08/herman-j-russell-s-old-home-hits-the-market.html; Kimberly Turner,"House Envy: Andrew Young reminisces on Herman J. Russell's 1963 Home," Atlanta Magazine, January 20, 2016, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/homeandgarden/house-envy-andrew-young-reminisces-on-herman-j-russell-1963-home/. The founder of H.J. Russell & Co. was...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...before, a marine, and he knew how to fight. Like the spark of life the female blue crab carries in her orange sponge, an idea began in him. The voice...
Trouble the Land: Prelude to the Atlanta Movement
...This was because Negroes generally knew their places—and stayed pretty close to them. Lonnie King: Well, you see, I think that the people who were in the leadership at that...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...one of the new acquisitions. Philadelphia brothers Dawud Anyabwile (illustrator), Guy A. Sims (writer), and Jason Sims (producer) launched what became an eleven-issue run in 1990. Often hailed as one of...
Submission Guidelines
...accept 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...
Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities
...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 include...
Image Credits
...Street" sign, New York, August 29, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user Luciano Alves, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Historic NYC Mattachine sign, New York, August 6, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Marty...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...and redistricting plans would go into effect immediately without approval from the federal government. In a similar move, South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson declared that the state's new voter ID...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...