Showing posts with label African American Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American Culture. Show all posts
Thursday, May 31, 2012

W.E.B. Du Bois and the 1900 Paris Exhibition

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Horse-drawn carriage in front of corner drugstore. Georgia, ca. 1900 Included in an award-winning exhibit at the Paris Exposition, th...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

African American Railroad Workers: Gandy Dancers

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From  Appalachia History , "Gandy Dancers" by Dave Tabler (7 January 2008) -- Before railroad work was completely mechanized i...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

The European Tourist And The Black Churches In Harlem

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"Harlem churches see gospel tourist boom on Sundays," 9 March  2012, by Meghan Barr, Associated Press--NEW YORK (AP) — The ste...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

British Tourist Visits The Low Country of Savannah and Charleston

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From the UK Telegraph Travel section, by Nigel Richardson, on 27 August 2008: "American south: A black and white story: Behind th...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records

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Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records This microfilm series contains hundreds of marriage records of newly liberated African Americ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gil Scott Heron - Washington D.C

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Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight ...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

Degenerate Music

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"Degenerate Music - a detailed statement by State Secretary Dr. Hans Severus Ziegler, general manager of the German National Theater in...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mississippi Cotton Picker: Charlie Pride

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Charlie Pride One of 11 siblings born into a poor, Mississippi-based sharecropping family, Charley Pride was raised on a cotton farm, where ...
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