Black Atlanta In The Roaring Twenties

Download Black Atlanta In The Roaring Twenties full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Black Atlanta In The Roaring Twenties ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties

Author : Herman Mason, Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567105
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties by : Herman Mason, Jr.

Download or read book Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties written by Herman Mason, Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, as well as earning the title "the new Motown," Atlanta was a hotbed of entertainment, business, and civic life for African Americans. At the same time that Harlem was undergoing its acclaimed renaissance, Atlanta could boast of excellent colleges, a thriving social environment, and an entertainment scene that could rival those of much larger cities. From Auburn Avenue, the hub of the city's African-American activity, a spirit of vibrant change and excitement radiated out to reach people across America.

Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties

Author : Herman Jr. Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531644086
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties by : Herman Jr. Mason

Download or read book Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties written by Herman Jr. Mason and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, as well as earning the title "the new Motown," Atlanta was a hotbed of entertainment, business, and civic life for African Americans. At the same time that Harlem was undergoing its acclaimed renaissance, Atlanta could boast of excellent colleges, a thriving social environment, and an entertainment scene that could rival those of much larger cities. From Auburn Avenue, the hub of the city's African-American activity, a spirit of vibrant change and excitement radiated out to reach people across America.

Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties

Author : Herman Mason, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756773939
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (739 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties by : Herman Mason, Jr.

Download or read book Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties written by Herman Mason, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, as well as earning the title "the new Motown," Atlanta was a hotbed of entertainment, bus., and civic life for African Americans (AA) At the same time that Harlem was undergoing its acclaimed renaissance, Atlanta could boast of excellent colleges, a thriving social environment, and an entertainment scene that could rival those of much larger cities. From Auburn Ave., the hub of the city's AA activity, a spirit of change and excitement radiated out to reach people across America. Here, Herman Mason, Jr. draws from his extensive collection of photographs and memorabilia, as well as private and public sources, to create a thorough look at a memorable era of glamour, progress, and achievement. Photos.

African-American Life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970

Author : Herman Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738500348
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African-American Life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970 by : Herman Mason

Download or read book African-American Life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970 written by Herman Mason and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeKalb County, Georgia, is much more than just another of the suburban areas around the city of Atlanta. African Americans have long lived, worked, played, and worshiped in the area. In African-American Life in DeKalb County: 1823-1970, Herman "Skip" Mason Jr., author, professor, and historian, has compiled a lovingly crafted look at the county's rich African-American heritage. With images from the Georgia Department of Archives and History, the DeKalb Historical Society, and his own extensive archives, Mason couples fascinating images with illuminating text to create a unique look at the area and its people. Within these pages, discover little-known facts about the county's past residents, including Bukumbo, the young girl who was brought from Africa to Decatur to serve as a nurse, who quickly became a beloved member of the family and died only a short while later. Learn about the great impact that the Clark and Oliver families had on Decatur, and view famous sections and landmarks of the county, including Lithonia, Ellenwood, Stone Mountain, Doraville, Tucker, Chamblee, Clarkston, Lynwood Park, Scottdale, and South DeKalb.

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Author : John Dittmer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252008139
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 by : John Dittmer

Download or read book Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 written by John Dittmer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History "The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review. "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement, woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.

African-American Entertainment in Atlanta

Author : Herman Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9780752409863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African-American Entertainment in Atlanta by : Herman Mason

Download or read book African-American Entertainment in Atlanta written by Herman Mason and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Atlanta, considered to be the Harlem of the South, received virtually every well-known entertainer and musician in the country. African-American Entertainment in Atlanta, written and compiled by noted historian and author Herman "Skip" Mason, Jr., is a fascinating and lively look at the individuals and institutions that comprised the entertainment industry in Atlanta from the post-Civil War era to 1970. The many night clubs, musicians, managers, promoters, and performers of Atlanta's African-American community are well represented, from the Roof Garden to the Magnolia Ballroom, from Blind Willie McTell to Aretha Franklin, from Barbecue Bob Hicks to Louis Armstrong. Elegant jazz musicians such as Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald star alongside raucous rock stars Jackie Wilson and Little Richard. Mr. Mason's work documents the people who made a career out of traveling the "chittling circuit" and came to Atlanta to perform on its many stages, as well as the hundreds of local musicians, singers, and dancers. Most of the venues at which these performers appeared were owned and operated by African-American managers, promoters, and booking agents. These behind-the-scenes key figures are also well represented. Much like the other two Images of America works by Mr. Mason, Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties and African-American Life in Jacksonville, African-American Entertainment in Atlanta is a lovingly crafted look at a fascinating people and their time. Book jacket.

Aristocrats of Color

Author : Willard B. Gatewood
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557285934
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Aristocrats of Color by : Willard B. Gatewood

Download or read book Aristocrats of Color written by Willard B. Gatewood and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. --from publisher description.

The New Negro

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The New Negro by : Alain Locke

Download or read book The New Negro written by Alain Locke and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Black Colleges of Atlanta

Author : Rodney T. Cohen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143961069X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Black Colleges of Atlanta by : Rodney T. Cohen

Download or read book The Black Colleges of Atlanta written by Rodney T. Cohen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1865, although Atlanta and the Confederacy still lay wounded in the wake of the Union victory, black higher education began its thrust for recognition. Some of the first of the American colleges formed specifically for the education of black students were founded in Atlanta, Georgia. These schools continue, over a century later, to educate, train and inspire. Through an engaging collection of images and informative captions, their story begins to unfold. Atlanta University was the pioneer college for blacks in the state of Georgia. Founded in 1865, it was followed by Morehouse College in 1867, Clark University in 1869, and Spelman and Morris Brown Colleges in 1881. By 1929, Atlanta University discontinued undergraduate work and affiliated with Morehouse and Spelman in a plan known as the "Atlanta University System." A formal agreement of cooperation including all of the Atlanta colleges occurred in 1957, solidifying the common goal and principles each school was founded upon-to make literate the black youth of America. Today, the shared resources of each institution provide a unique and challenging experience for young Africa Americans seeking higher education. The schools boast a long and distinguished list of alumni and scholars, including W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Henry O. Tanner, and C. Eric Lincoln.

America's Black Capital

Author : Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541602005
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis America's Black Capital by : Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

Download or read book America's Black Capital written by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan’s sacred “Imperial City.” America’s Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. What drove them, historian Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar shows, was the belief that Black uplift would be best advanced by forging Black institutions. America’s Black Capital is an inspiring story of Black achievement against all odds, with effects that reached far beyond Georgia, shaping the nation’s popular culture, public policy, and politics.

Atlanta

Author : Best of Images of America
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507514
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Atlanta by : Best of Images of America

Download or read book Atlanta written by Best of Images of America and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Atlanta Urban League, 1920-2000

Author : Alton Hornsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Atlanta Urban League, 1920-2000 by : Alton Hornsby

Download or read book The Atlanta Urban League, 1920-2000 written by Alton Hornsby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hornsby (history, Morehouse College) and Henderson (history, Clark Atlanta U.) examine the history of the Atlanta Urban League, the first and most prominent of the southern affiliates of the National Urban League. With that alliance in 1920 came ongoing concerns about how "political" the Atlanta affiliate could be without jeopardizing its important work in securing employment opportunities and providing social services. Although the city was a major education and commercial center for African Americans, and had a successful middle class, it also was home to many without opportunities other than those offered by the League. Hornsby and Henderson describe the successes and controversies of the Atlanta branch from the interwar period through World War II, during the civil rights revolution, and into the post civil rights era, and the startling changes wrought by two of its leaders, Grace Towns Hamilton and Lyndon Wade.

Generations of Black Life in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia

Author : Patrice Shelton Lassiter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738568997
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Generations of Black Life in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia by : Patrice Shelton Lassiter

Download or read book Generations of Black Life in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia written by Patrice Shelton Lassiter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Black Life in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia is the first documented pictorial history of two rich and diverse black communities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through carefully preserved vintage images and informative captions, Lassiter tells a story that is unique, but at the same time recognizable to black communities everywhere.

Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement

Author : Randal Maurice Jelks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835366
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement by : Randal Maurice Jelks

Download or read book Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement written by Randal Maurice Jelks and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his "spiritual and intellectual father." Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Mor

The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones

Author : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844204
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones by : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen

Download or read book The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones written by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately seventy thousand souls lay in rest at historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the silent witnesses of what has gone on before. Their stones carry their stories and the history of Atlanta. Cathy Kaemmerlen, renowned storyteller and Georgia author, explores the tales behind many of the cemetery's notable figures, including: " Margaret Mitchell, of Gone with the Wind fame " Bobby Jones, 1930 winner of all four major golf championships " The Rich brothers, founders of Rich's Department Store " Joseph Jacobs, in whose pharmacy the first Coca-Cola was served

Walter White

Author : Thomas Dyja
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156663766X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (666 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Walter White by : Thomas Dyja

Download or read book Walter White written by Thomas Dyja and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Music of Graham Jackson

Author : David Cason
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072875
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Life and Music of Graham Jackson by : David Cason

Download or read book The Life and Music of Graham Jackson written by David Cason and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking Black artist and his career in the Jim Crow South This book is the first biography of Graham Jackson (1903-1983), a virtuosic musician whose life story displays the complexities of being a Black professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jackson navigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career and highlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century. Widely known for an iconic photo taken of him playing the accordion in tears at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s funeral, which became a Life magazine cover, Jackson is revealed here to have a much deeper story. He was a performer, composer, and high school music director known for his skills on the piano and organ. Jackson was among the first Black men to enlist in the Navy during World War II, helping recruit many other volunteers and raising over $2 million for the war effort. After the war he became a fixture at Atlanta music venues and in 1971, Governor Jimmy Carter proclaimed Jackson the State Musician of Georgia. Cason examines Jackson’s groundbreaking roles with a critical eye, taking into account how Jackson drew on his connections with white elites including Roosevelt, Coca-Cola magnate Robert Woodruff, and golfer Bobby Jones, and was censured by Black Power figures for playing songs associated with Confederate memory. Based on archival, newspaper, and interview materials, The Life and Music of Graham Jackson brings into view the previously unknown story of an ambitious and talented artist and his controversial approach to the politics and culture of his day. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.