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Tag: Jim Crow

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Echoes of History: ‘The Balcony Project’ at the Historic Orpheum Theatre

Mark Fleischer September 29, 2023 Colored EntranceJim CrowThe Orpheum TheatreThe Orpheum Theatre Group

In a nod to truth in history and education, the Orpheum reopens its old “Colored Entrance” with The Balcony Project. Public tours open Monday It…

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When “The Birth of a Nation” Came to Memphis

Robert Lanier December 15, 2022 Birth of a NationD W GriffithsDW GriffithE H CrumpJim CrowKlu Klux Klanmotion picturesNAACPRobert LanierThomas Dixon Jr

The news came in December 1915, that one of cinema’s most infamous films – which exalted, glorified and stoked white supremacy – was soon coming…

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Swift Peter: Frights in the Night

Caroline Carrico October 14, 2021 cyrptidJim CrowlegendMemphisMidtownSwift Peter

The Dark Intentions of Midtown’s Cryptid The Pacific Northwest has Sasquatch, Scotland has Nessie, and Midtown Memphis, for a few weeks in February 1927, had…

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The Keys to a Better Life

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 Book ReviewBooker T WashingtonChapter16Chris MoodyJim CrowPaul PerdueRosenwald Schools

Photographer Andrew Feiler documents the Rosenwald Schools of the Jim Crow South By Chris Moody, for Chapter16.org While researching his book, A Better Life for Their…

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