In the ending years of the Great Depression, the launch of an enduring enterprise called Marvel Comics in 1939 was the approach taken by a young pulp magazine publisher named Martin Goodman. Goodman purchased comic book stories from the Funnies, Inc. which included superheroes such as the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.[1] Kevin Garcia a free-lance writer for Marvel Comics, describes in his interview...
On August 20th, 1937, Dixie Bibb Graves took the senatorial oath and became Alabama’s first female senator. She created a precedent not only by representing her state in the Senate, but by being the first woman to deliver a speech on the Congress floor. “Miss Dixie”, as she was affectionately called, spoke against an anti-lynching bill. Southern women often talked about lynching, because they...
During the 1930s, Detroit’s Western Market was bustling with hundreds of farmers, buyers, and city dwellers. Trucks were arranged as close as possible and numbers of large baskets containing fresh produce lined the surrounding area. Young to middle-aged men tended to be the ones to sell the farmed products, ranging from apples to poultry. In the busy summer months, the men, both farmers and consumers,...
Between 1920 and 1970, millions of Blacks migrated from the South in pursuit of job opportunities in the manufacturing industry of the Midwest and Northeast. Detroit was a particularly popular destination due to its budding and thriving automotive industry. Before the "Great Migration", an era of Detroit's history coined for the sharp population influx, there were a total of 6,000 Blacks in Detroit....