The Journal had a special issue devoted to Katrina.
Great media section including great audio slideshows.
A page of further resources. Including a guide of neighborhoods, jazz music, timeline of levee construction and more.
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Showing posts with label primary source. Show all posts
Monday, February 23, 2009
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If a picture's worth a 1,000 words how much is a postcard worth?
"Look Grandma,
I put on my Sunday best and went to the lynching.
Wish you were here!"
We have all seen awful photos of lynchings, but this site sheds light on an even more despicable practice, the turning of those photos into postcards.
Really helps to show the role of lynchings in terrorizing and how flagrant and widespread the practice was. Especially helpful is that the example come from everywhere from California in the 1930s to the Deep South of the 1890s. Most are explained in depth.
I put on my Sunday best and went to the lynching.
Wish you were here!"
We have all seen awful photos of lynchings, but this site sheds light on an even more despicable practice, the turning of those photos into postcards.
Really helps to show the role of lynchings in terrorizing and how flagrant and widespread the practice was. Especially helpful is that the example come from everywhere from California in the 1930s to the Deep South of the 1890s. Most are explained in depth.
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