Song of the South is a live action/animated movie Disney released in 1946. The film was a box office success grossing $3.3 million at the box office. Disney made a profit of $226,000 ($2.83 million in current day). Song of the South won two Oscars for the movie, one for best original Song “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” (yes […]
Month: February 2020
Who or what killed President Zachary Taylor?
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and the last slave holding person to be elected to the office. During Taylor’s Presidential tenure, slavery and the extension of it to western land was the hot button issue. California population was growing because of the gold rush and there was pressure to usher […]
Revisiting the Separate but Equal Doctrine
Historian C. Vann Woodward wrote in a 1964 article about Plessy v. Ferguson, that white and black southerners mixed relatively freely until the 1880s, when southern state legislatures passed the first laws requiring railroads to provide separate cars for “Negro” or “Colored” passengers. Florida became the first state to mandate segregated railroad cars in 1887 […]
The life and times of Valaida Snow
She’s known as “the female Louis Armstrong.” Most of the World doesn’t know who Valaida Snow was or of her wonderful entertainment career. Her life was changed, when a world altering event occurred. Valaida legacy may have been lost to history, but it deserves to have a spotlight shone on it. Valaida was born in […]
