The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...new technology and implemented sweeping infrastructure improvements, the Port of New Orleans, hobbled by a dock board populated by political appointees who possessed no useful knowledge of the shipping industry,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
The Black Belt
...Henry Wellge & Co. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3974s.pm000090/ Through violence, appeals to white supremacy, and massive voter fraud, the Black Belt's oligarchs defeated...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...a western one), but sometimes, more appropriately, as a category of its own. Mace's sectional differences are significant, but perhaps overblown. After all, few newspapers sent reporters to Mississippi. Most...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...simply refused to give a black farmer an application, denied the request outright, or stated that money for that program had been spent. At other times the farmer would receive...
And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...