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The grapevine of the black South : the Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the generation before the civil rights movement
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ISBN: 0820354473 9780820354477 9780820354460 0820354465 9780820354453 0820354457 Year: 2018 Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press,


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Routledge History of Police Brutality in America
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ISBN: 0367626101 1003109969 1000852644 1000852687 1003109969 Year: 2023 Publisher: Milton Taylor & Francis Group

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The life and times of Louis Lomax : the art of deliberate disunity
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ISBN: 147801315X Year: 2021 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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"Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating life of pioneering journalist, television host, bestselling author, and important yet overlooked civil rights figure Louis Lomax, who became one of the most influential voices of the civil rights movement despite his past as an ex-con, serial liar, and publicity-seeking provocateur."--


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Model airplanes are decadent and depraved
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ISBN: 150175727X 1609091787 9781609091781 9781501757273 9780875807249 0875807240 Year: 2015 Publisher: Dekalb NIU Press

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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the later development of paint thinners, varnishes, lighter fluid, polishes, and dry-cleaning supplies provided a variety of publicly available products with organic solvents that could be inhaled for some range of hallucinogenic or intoxicating effect. Model airplane glue was one of those products, but did not appear in warnings until the first reports of problematic behavior appeared in 1959, when children in several western cities were arrested for delinquency after huffing glue. Newspaper coverage both provided the initial shot across the bow for research into the subject and convinced children to give it a try. This "epidemic" quickly spread throughout the nation and the world. Though the hobby industry began putting an irritant in its model glue products in 1969 to make them less desirable to sniff, that wasn't what stopped the epidemic. Just as quickly as it erupted, the epidemic stopped when the media coverage and public hysteria stopped, making it one of the most unique epidemics in American history. The nation's focus drifted from adolescent glue sniffing to the countercultural student movement, with its attendant devotion to drug use, opposition to the Vietnam War, southern race policies, and anti-bureaucracy in general. This movement came to embody a tumultuous era fraught with violence, civil disobedience, and massive sea changes in American life and law—glue sniffing faded by comparison.


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The kings of Casino Park : Black baseball in the lost season of 1932
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ISBN: 0817385681 9780817385682 9780817317423 0817317422 Year: 2011 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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In the 1930's, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the "lynch law center of Louisiana." race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class-a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930's, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see


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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved
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ISBN: 9781501757273 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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