Adam Mims
Dr. Benson
History 321-Urban America
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Still Movin' and Groovin'
In the beginning of 1970, the city of New Orleans and the music industry as a whole would be drastically changed in a way that would bolster its prominence like no other. This change would soon come to existence as being called the...
New Orleans is a city rich with cultural identity fused into the roots of its people. Most evidently, the cuisine has blossomed from the history of New Orleans, and as my primary source shows it is also the most celebrated and shared cuisine our country has to offer. The most famous part of New Orleans, the "French Quarter", is home to most all the cultural traditions New Orleans...
The collaboration between Zora Hurston and the Directors of The Museum in folklore entitled “From Sun to Sun” was revolutionary for both the museum and for the African American population at the time. The Museum was known at the time at Rollins to be “a house for the arts”. The theatre worked together with Hurston to present a series of one act plays, musical...
The First Blacks
In this country about thirty to fifty years ago racial segregation existed among blacks and whites in the education system. It was only in the 1950’s when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Yet, it was only about forty years ago when Rollins...
Men’s soccer began as a club team in 1970. Soccer became a varsity sport for the 1975-1976 season after Coach Beaumont successfully argued that if Alma College wanted to promote its connection to Scotland, the College should not ignore Scotland’s national sport.
Although instrumental to the foundation of men’s soccer, Beaumont only coached for the first season. The most successful coach...
Jacqueline Rhoads landed in Vietnam in 1970 at the age of twenty-two. On the day she arrived, Rhoads started her work as an emergency room nurse. She recalls the mass-casualty events the most. For her small unit, mass-casualty was anything more than ten wounded at a time. Mass-casualty situations often taxed supplies such that not enough supplies remained to save everyone. It was the code of the...
Built in the 1920’s, the Hamilton Hotel was built as more modest accommodations than the only other hotel in town. The other hotel, the Seminole Hotel, boasted of visitors of such caliber as Henry Flagler, William Rockefeller, and even United States President Grover Cleveland. The Hamilton Hotel was the first in Winter Park to have a bathroom in each room; while it may seem strange to not have...
The 1970's became fertile ground for public outrage and violence against the American establishment due to national economic stress, assassinations of public figures, the Vietnam War, and other political scandals. By the 70's it seemed to a significant amount of Americans, that what the government wanted to portray and what they were realistically taking care of were two very different truths. What...
The 1970’s were a tumultuous time in American history. Movements regarding the war in Vietnam, civil rights, and gay rights escalated as the United States entrenched itself in economic crises and political divisions. As these movements gained momentum, the political system as well as the prevailing social notions of the time attempted to quash any semblance of progressive thinking until the end...
In July 1971, Newsweek Magazine produced in its new movie section an article stating, “John Shaft, private eye aspired steely black version of Sam Spade and James Bond, SHAFTS BIG SCORE, the sequel to last year’s enormously profitable Shaft.” Hollywood was on a role. During the late 1960’s white people were moving to the suburbs in mass numbers, leaving blacks as the minority in the city....