Debacle in Dixie
Author : George William Sherk
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Interstate agreements
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Author : George William Sherk
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Interstate agreements
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Author : Dixie County Advocate
Publisher :
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Flood damage
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Author : Aidan Smedegaard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : Aidan John Smedegaard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : Émile Zola
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
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Author : Myrta Lockett Avary
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734078261
Reproduction of the original: Dixie after the War by Myrta Lockett Avary
Author : Kathi Clark Wong
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621908038
In an era of online streaming, it may be difficult to recognize the importance of a woman who in 1908 established the first silent movie theater in Richmond, Virginia: the Dixie nickelodeon. But Amanda Thorp, an independent, self-made woman, was on the ground floor of a popular culture that would grow to be enormously influential in our modern era. In Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville: The Forgotten Story of Amanda Thorp, Kathi Clark Wong’s extensive archival research uncovers Thorp’s impressive contributions not only to moviegoing and its growth in America, but also perhaps even more surprisingly, Thorp’s support of early Black vaudeville in the Jim Crow South. Movie theater entrepreneurs like Thorp, who got her start at her Wonderland Theater in Bucyrus, Ohio, helped create our culture’s insatiable appetite for film. But it was after she established the Dixie in Richmond, that Thorp—a White woman—also saw a market for providing Black-centric entertainment. She converted the Dixie to all-Black patronage and began to bring in scores of Black vaudeville acts. Later, she built the Hippodrome Theater, in the heart of Richmond’s now-historic Jackson Ward, expressly for Black entertainment. Though she eventually left the field of Black entertainment behind, Thorp developed other movie venues in Richmond that brought in tens of thousands of (White) moviegoers over the years and which were widely admired for their elaborate trappings. Thanks to Wong’s research, contemporary readers can now benefit from the story of Amanda Thorp, a woman who amidst severe gender role constraints not only claimed social capacity on the crest of a rapidly growing industry but also, almost inadvertently, contributed to the success of early Black vaudeville, a subject which thus far has not received the scholarly attention it deserves.
Author : Kelly Kazek
Publisher : Disaster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596299115
Journey just west of America's infamous Tornado Alley to Alabama, home to some of the deadliest tornadoes of the past century. These twisters remain etched in the collective memory of the people, from the 1908 Dixie Tornado, regarded as one of the most brutal tornadoes in U.S. history, to the 1998 Birmingham Tornado, the most expensive twister in Alabama's history. Discover how the 1932 Deep South Tornadoes resulted in 268 fatalities and millions of dollars in damage, and read the terrifying account of the 1977 Smithfield Tornadoes, which rocked this Birmingham suburb with as many as six twisters in a one-hour span. Join local journalist Kelly Kazek as she shares the tales of these natural disasters and the hardy Alabamians who endured them.
Author : Myrta Lockett Avary
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : History
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"Dixie After the War" by Myrta Lockett Avary. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Archibald Hamilton Rutledge
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Hunting
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