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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 ...