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Rough Tactics : Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932 /

"Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885-1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians' Union prior to the 1903 UCV Reunion in New Orleans...

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Autor principal: Johnson, Mark A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Out in full force": Black participation in spectacular politics before disfranchisement, 1877-99
  • "A contest in music": Election-Day spectacles in the Central Georgia Temperance Campaigns, 1885-99
  • "A strictly social function": The contest of Black labor and Confederate memory at the 1903 UCV Reunion
  • "Furious music": African Americans, political spectacles, and street theater in the post-disfranchisement South, 1909-32
  • "To do our bit for good government": W.C. Handy, E.H. Crump, and the 1909 Memphis mayoral election
  • "I didn't really know how to show my opposition": Street theater in the twenty-first century.