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American Geography' is the visual record of Magnum photographer Matt Black's five-year, 100,000-mile road trip across 46 states of the United States, plus Puerto Rico. It examines the conditions of powerlessness, prejudice and pragmatism among America's poor. The project originated in Matt Black's exploration of his own home town in California's rural Central Valley - a place that has been called 'the other California' - where one third of the population...
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"In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears. In Delta Epiphany, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit, while also...
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This book makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations...
270) Scalped: 7,Rez Blues
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First, in a special stand-alone issue, we meet a couple of characters for the first and last time - an aging husband and wife who eke out a living in the harsh and rugged heart of the Badlands. Next, Red Crow sends his right-hand man Shunka to sort out a feud with a rival Native American casino, but now he's become embroiled in a murder mystery. He knows he should walk away, but something inside won't let him, which means things are about to get bloody....
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Scope and content: Materials in this series include interviews and items relating to individuals who served during peacetime or during periods of conflict other than those wars specified by the Library of Congress in their Veterans History Project. As a general rule, items for this series were not directly solicited, but rather were added to the project in the course of gathering materials and interviews for other segments. Note that individuals who...
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Abstract: The collection, spanning nearly one hundred years (ca. 1905-ca. 1998, bulk 1905-1972), documents Miss Fannie Battle's humanitarian vision to build and maintain a charitable day care facility for the care, nursing, and education of underprivileded children in the Nashville area, spanning nearly one hundred years (ca. 1905-ca. 1998, bulk 1905-1972). The sources consist of historical journals, scrapbooks, and photographic sources related to...
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Scope and content: Contains information about Buva College Rescue Home and Training School for Negro Children, a private relief organization operated in Nashville, Tenn. by Dr. Moses Mullins. Contains brief financial statements (1946 and 1953); two brochures; publicity materials, including a large illustrated poster/program for a 1947 fundraiser held at War Memorial Auditorium, featuring performances by the Willia Mai Ford Smith, the Waterford Sisters,...
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Abstract: Printouts from portions of the Occupy Nashville website (www.occupynashville.org) selected and printed by Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division staff in the spring of 2012. Materials date from Oct. 2011 through March 2012.
Scope and content: Approximately half of the collection consists of minutes from meetings of Occupy Nashville's own "General Assembly," beginning on Oct. 9, 2011 and continuing through Feb. 2012 (the...
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Scope and content: Annual reports from the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) from 1938 to 1996 (some years missing) and two project-specific reports on Capitol Hill Redevelopment Project (c. 1952) and Edgehill Redevelopment and Renewal Project (c. 1964). The collection documents the activities and mission of the Nashville Housing Authority and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency...