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Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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Polk's Memphis (Tennessee) City Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & Co.'s Memphis City Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & CoPublisher:
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Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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Polk's Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County Directory
Author: Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
Author: Thomas AielloPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book’s predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate between 1931 and 1955. In a pragmatic effort to avoid racial confrontation developing from white fear, newspaper editors developed a practical radicalism that argued on the fringes of racial hegemony, saving their loudest vitriol for tyranny that was not local and thus left no stake in the game for would-be white saboteurs. Thomas Aiello reexamined historical thinking about the Depression-era Black South, the information flow of the Great Migration, the place of southern newspapers in the historiography of Black journalism, and even the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the civil rights movement. With Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration, Aiello continues that analysis by tracing the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy. Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration is a supplement to The Grapevine of the Black South, providing a fuller picture of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate and the Black press in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Tennessee Women
Author: Sarah Wilkerson FreemanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Southern women: their lives and times"--Page 4 of cover.
Polk's Medical Register and Directory of North America
Author: Polk's Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada
Author: Polk's Detroit City Directory
Author: Polk's Santa Cruz (California) City Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & CoPublisher:
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Category : Capitola (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey
Author: Patrick O’DanielPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682007X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country—but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O’Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city made on the rest of the state and country. Prohibition remains perhaps the most important issue to affect Memphis after the Civil War. It affected politics, religion, crime, the economy, and health, along with race and class. In Memphis, bootlegging bore a particular character shaped by its urban environment and the rural background of the city’s inhabitants. Religious fundamentalists and the Ku Klux Klan supported Prohibition, while the rebellious youth of the Jazz Age fought against it. Poor and working-class people took the brunt of Prohibition, while the wealthy skirted the law. Like the War on Drugs today, African Americans, immigrants, and poor whites made easy targets for law enforcement due to their lack of resources and effective legal counsel. Based on news reports and documents, O’Daniel’s lively account distills long-forgotten gangsters, criminal organizations, and crusaders whose actions shaped the character of Memphis well into the twentieth century.