What is left of the alcohol plant, built to utilize refuse. Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town
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What is left of the alcohol plant, built to utilize refuse. Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town
#Fullerton #Louisiana #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

A new University of Chicago study finds a strong connection between eviction rates and gun violence in Chicago. As Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes stronger tenant protections, researchers and violence prevention advocates argue that housing stability may be key to reducing shootings.
1967 ~ The Lovings ~On June 12th, 1967, the Court’s ruling declared all laws against interracial marriage in the United States to be unconstitutional – possibly on a future ballot? In Memory
visit Loving Day's website. ================ The Loving Story: Richard P. Loving, and his wife Mildred, shown in this January 26, 1965 photograph, will file a suit at Federal Court in Richmond, Va., asking for permission to live as husband and wife in Virginia. Both are from Carolin County, south of Fredericksburg, Va., and were married in Washington in 1958. Upon their return the interracial couple was convicted under the state's miscegenation law that bans mixed marriages. They […]
visit Loving Day’s website. ================ The Loving Story: Richard P. Loving, and his wife Mildred, shown in this January 26, 1965 photograph, will file a suit at Federal Court in Richmo…
"[...]#NicholasLemann’s terrific, researched account of his #Louisiana family’s #history in #America and his own #Jewish evolution lands at an important time for American #Jews. Returning is the #Lemann family story of #assimilation and material success in America, and the #author’s engagement in middle age of rich Jewish observance. It is told with #historical rigor but also #novelistic detail. Don’t think of this as a Jewish #book, but as an American #story with relevance beyond the 2 percent who call themselves Jewish. It is a case study in how, in a free country, #Americans choose to wear their #religious and #ethnic identities, and how the majority culture also influences, even bludgeons, those decisions."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/11/the-return-of-the-native/