Category Archives: Race
A Vintage Vacation in Apartheid South Africa
A Long Trip to Equality Nelson Mandela’s lasting legacy will always be the abolition of apartheid in South Africa It is hard to imagine, but in that brutal time period of 1950s apartheid, as the dark reality of repressive laws
A Vintage Vacation in Apartheid South Africa
A Long Trip to Equality Nelson Mandela’s lasting legacy will always be the abolition of apartheid in South Africa It is hard to imagine, but in that brutal time period of 1950s apartheid, as the dark reality of repressive laws
Voting-Democracy in Action
Growing up our textbooks taught us that America was Democracy in action. Especially when it came to our cherished right to vote. “Americans are proud of what they have built,” the young reader is told in “The New Ways in
Voting-Democracy in Action
Growing up our textbooks taught us that America was Democracy in action. Especially when it came to our cherished right to vote. “Americans are proud of what they have built,” the young reader is told in “The New Ways in
Blackface Follies
Among the collection of vintage advertising we’re likely never to see today can be added this 1950 advertisement for Lifesaver’s Pep o Mint. Thinking nothing wrong in using black face to advertise their candy one even half expects the tag
Blackface Follies
Among the collection of vintage advertising we’re likely never to see today can be added this 1950 advertisement for Lifesaver’s Pep o Mint. Thinking nothing wrong in using black face to advertise their candy one even half expects the tag
Envisioning The American Dream 