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SUMMARY:THE LAST TICK FOR SEGREGATION: Education and the Great Migration
DESCRIPTION:A presentation from Tonia Merideth\, M.A. Oral Historian\, Wm & Mary Bray School Lab\n\nAt the beginning of the 20th century\, millions of African Americans left the Jim Crow South for the economic opportunities in the North and West. Historians refer to this as the Great Migration. This presentation examines the migrations of Black professional educators into Beloit\, Wisconsin\, in the 1960s. With the use of oral history interviews\, school-board records\, newspaper clippings\, photographs\, obituaries\, church records\, and vital statistics\, this presentation retraces one aspect of this fascinating migration of micro-communities within the Midwest that changed the fabric of the nation.
URL:http://www.wbhsm.org/event/the-last-tick-for-segregation-education-and-the-great-migration/
LOCATION:2620 West Center Street\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53206\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Images in the Media: Caricatures and Consequences
DESCRIPTION:With a presentation from Ira Hadnot Alexander.\n\nOne of the more controversial groups of Americana collectibles is Black Americana\, also referred to as Black Memorabilia\, Afro-Americana\, and Black Face Collectibles; phrases used to describe memorabilia or ephemera that relates to African American history.  Most of this material was produced from the 18th through the 20th centuries and ranged from pieces with very negative depictions of the cruelty of slavery to those that are more wholesome like the well-known Aunt Jemima\, whose matronly and jovial nature was replicated on many pieces from cookie canisters to spice sets\, dish towels\, tea tins\, etc. during the 1930s through the ‘50s.\n\n 
URL:http://www.wbhsm.org/event/a-presentation-of-black-americana/
LOCATION:2620 West Center Street\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53206\, United States
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