These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of a large crowd coming to visit ""Mammy Jinny,"" most of the crowd bears gifts -- a chicken, a watermelon, flowers; photo inset of Gillen Beck and Frazer. (see #74)
Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of a large crowd coming to visit ""Mammy Jinny,"" most of the crowd bears gifts -- a chicken, a watermelon, flowers; photo inset of two Caucasians: Valeska Suratt and George Baldwin. (see 428)
Smith, Frank E. (Frank Ellis), 1918-1997; Political campaigns; Elections -- Mississippi; Government spending policy; Inflation (Finance); Job creation; Education; Environment; Taxation; Busing for school integration; Agriculture; Campaign funds;...
Sony TC-366 Reel to Reel Player, Tascam DR-680 Digital Recorder
Inheritance and succession; Assets (Accounting); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877);
In this letter Roxana discusses family business matters; she responds to the family's question regarding how much she spent on Lucy's doctors and burial; division of assets; their ""Mother""(step-mother Sarah); mentions how the South was not...
This paper discusses Stuart Chase and his thoughts on social accounting and the economics of waste and inefficiency. An evolutionary socialist, economist, and CPA, Chase saw waste as the major socioeconomic problem of our time, and argued that...