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Afrofantastic Presents: The Many Deaths Of Oscar Mack, Julian Chambliss
Afrofantastic Presents: The Many Deaths Of Oscar Mack, Julian Chambliss
Third Stone
Oscar Mack's story deserves the dedication that has culminated in the creation of this defining documentary. Mack's struggle to survive is ripe for the Afrofuturist re‐telling, not because it is fantastic but because the comic story has the potential to capture the transformative thinking black people must employ to survive.
Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Mss 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Mss 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 765. Primarily letters and statements of James R. Hines, an Evansville, Indiana, native who was owner and legal counsel to several bargeline businesses, advocating for improved navigation and flood control on the Green River in Kentucky. Also includes historical data and narratives on Hines’s steamboating family, especially his grandfather Richard T. Williams.
Alberta Shatteen Dozier
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Learning By Doing In The Segregated South: The Robert Hungerford Normal And Industrial School For African Americans In Central Florida, Wenxian Zhang
Learning By Doing In The Segregated South: The Robert Hungerford Normal And Industrial School For African Americans In Central Florida, Wenxian Zhang
Faculty Publications
The development of the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School is an important chapter in the history of African American education in Florida. Through careful examinations of the school publications, records, archival correspondence, and newspaper clippings, the article seeks to document the history of the Hungerford School from its founding in the late nineteenth century until it became a public school in the Orange County, Florida in the early 1950s. Following Booker T. Washington’s ideals, the school was established with a great emphasis on economic self-help and individual advancement for African Americans. Its mission was to teach vocational skills to …
Ellen Diane Rawls Hodge
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
Ellen_Diane_Rawls_Hodge.pdf - Funeral program for Ellen Diane Rawls Hodge