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Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Title
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author
Taylor, Emily
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...
Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Title
Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Author
Marshall, Sylvia
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description
On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...
The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
Title
The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
Author
Barnett, Melissa
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
History
Description
Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Title
The Faithful and The Fallen: Magdalene Laundries and the Work of the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in Albany and Troy, New York, 1885 to 1920
Author
Del Giudice, Erin
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, History, Women's studies
Description
Catholic nuns have worked within the United States in a myriad of ways for decades. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are an order of Catholic sisters whose ministry focused on "wayward" women in the late eighteenth century. As an order predominant...