Photographs From The Memphis World 1949 1964

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An invaluable pictorial overview of African American vitality in a southern metropolis

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Genre : History
Author : Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release : 2008
File : 140 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0915525100


The Memphis Red Sox

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This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.

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Genre : Sports & Recreation
Author : Keith B. Wood
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2024-05-21
File : 234 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781476652276


African Americans In Memphis

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Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America: African Americans in Memphis chronicles this regional experience from the 19th century to the 1950s. Historic black Memphians were railroad men, bricklayers, chauffeurs, dressmakers, headwaiters, and beauticians, as well as businessmen, teachers, principals, barbers, preachers, musicians, nurses, doctors, Republican leaders, and Pullman car porters. During the Jim Crow era, they established social, political, economic, and educational institutions that sustained their communities in one of the most rigidly segregated cities in America. The dynamic growth and change of the post-World War II South set the stage for a new, authentic, black urban culture defined by Memphis gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues music; black radio; black newspapers; and religious pageants.

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Genre : History
Author : Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2012-09-18
File : 132 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781439622711


Church Street

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The 1930s and 1940s saw unprecedented prosperity for the African Americans of Jackson's Church Street. From the first black millionaire in the United States to defenders of civil rights, nearly all of Jackson's black professionals lived on Church Street. It was one of the most popular places to see and be seen, whether that meant spotting Louis Armstrong strolling out of the Crystal Palace Club or Martin Luther King Jr. organizing an NAACP meeting at his field office on nearby Farish Street. Join authors and veterans of Church Street Grace Sweet and Benjamin Bradley as they explore the astounding history and legacy of Church Street.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Grace Sweet
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2013-07-09
File : 201 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781625845658


The Atomic Bomb In Images And Documents

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Samuel S. Kloda spent more than 40 years meeting with the scientists who built the first atomic bombs, and the crews that delivered them to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those conversations encouraged him to search archives throughout the U.S. Newly unearthed documents were brought to former members of the Manhattan Project or the 509th Composite Group, who were always willing to autograph and recount the details of these artifacts. Most of the major books on the Manhattan Project were published before 1973. In the years that followed, newly declassified documents became available and showed that many authors had included huge inaccuracies. Richly illustrated with important documents and photographs, Kloda's chronicle of the dawn of the atomic age sets the record straight on one of the greatest scientific advancements of all time. Readers will see how a single letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 led to the formation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium and, within six years, to the secret Manhattan Project employing more than 100,000 men and women.

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Genre : History
Author : Samuel S. Kloda
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2022-02-09
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781476684888


The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced In The United States Feature Films

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Genre : Motion pictures
Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 1997
File : 990 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0520209702


International Motion Picture Almanac

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Genre : Motion picture producers and directors
Author : Terry Ramsaye
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Release : 1992
File : 782 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015032862164


Circular

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Genre : Education
Author :
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Release : 1964
File : 548 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951T00251229U


Reader S Digest Almanac And Yearbook

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Genre : Almanacs, American
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Release : 1971
File : 1030 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000023759701


History Of Cooperative Soybean Processing In The United States 2013 2021

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 58 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

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Genre : Reference
Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Release : 2021-11-26
File : 410 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781948436601