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Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther Sep 2003

Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther

History Faculty Publications

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 …


Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2003

Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.


Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther Jan 2003

Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

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