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Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther
Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther
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This article examines the relationship between the struggle for African American civil rights and efforts to expand tourism, conventions, and spectator sports in New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1954 and 1969. Drawing on previously neglected archival sources and personal interviews, it considers how the pressure to maintain New Orleans's progressive image as an urbane tourist destination required abandoning Jim Crow customs and embracing the growing national commitment to racial progress. It argues that an unlikely coalition of civil rights activists, tourism interests, municipal officials, and a small segment of New Orleans's old-line social establishment adopted a tourism-related rhetoric to counter the …
Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther
Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther
History Faculty Publications
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