... read comics. It looks at comics readers during the Great Depression, the Golden Age of comic books, the impact of television on comic book reading, the emergence of underground comics along with an adolescent-adult readership, and the composition of comic book readership in the 1980s. Advertisers...

... of organized labor. Capra’s championing of what he initially referred to as “The Man in the Street”—or what the press liked to call “the common man”—was a calculated response aimed at giving his audiences what they wanted. Capra Frank Coolidge Calvin Great Depression Hoover Herbert Brandt Joe Columbia...

...This chapter focuses on the creation of Superman. As second-generation Jewish immigrants, Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's experiences in America differed from that of men like Burroughs and Lovecraft, combining the realities of urban living, the consequences of the Great Depression...

..., as a complex meditation on the penetration of economic concerns into every corner of human existence, and considering the story's placement amid Faulkner's most creative years of work (during the early years of the Great Depression), the chapter seeks to demonstrate that a greater attention on the financial...

...This chapter focuses on “Flowers for Marjorie” as a “bold narrative experiment to arouse the public awareness of a major social event”—the Great Depression as Welty observed it in New York City. Familiar with and fascinated by the avant-garde world of New York and the fields of contemporary...

...The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience, dominated by those involved with the coal industry, was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. This book shows that, contrary...

...The poor have always been with us. In the rural American South, the “bottom half” languished on the edge of survival since Reconstruction. When the Great Depression hit, their plight worsened. The New Deal – and the nation – responded with a radical and innovative solution. Model communities were...

..., daughter of the founder of Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington. Despite Dawson’s wise leadership, the School of Music did not flourish due to the constraints of the Great Depression and the private status of the college. Finding a Way Out Hampton Institute Moton Robert Russa Washington Booker T Alexander...

.... The chapter discusses framing leisure spaces with the reference to Welty's statement that the Great Depression put numerous circuses out of the show during war years. One of Welty's photographs of the circus features how the fair environment is gendered and separated into spaces owned by men and women. Welty...

... and the economic impact of the Great Depression as only partially effective as it left issues such as inadequate healthcare, rising crime, and police brutality unresolved. It also reviews Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocacy for social and economic justice that is highlighted as a moral imperative that remains...

...Leaving Goshen is reflection and consideration of the validity of the thesis of this book. The notion of cooperation, and its highly subjective meaning, is reconsidered, as is the importance of human aspirations. “Goshen ” ix x Wilson M L Milburn Goshen Great Depression New Deal...

... as he reveals the economic plight of tenant farming during the Great Depression. In addition, the chapter looks at Caldwell's nonfiction work, including his phototext You Have Seen Their Faces, written with photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and contrasts its cultural context...

...Chapter three analyzes radical Great Depression- and World War II-era consumer cooperatives in working-class Freret neighborhood as their anti-racist, socialist calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist system careened into their constituents desire for economic expediency. Opening...

...This chapter recounts the early years of the Natchez Pilgrimage, a heritage tourism enterprise created by the Natchez Garden Club at the height of the Great Depression. The Pilgrimage dramatized a mix of decades-old southern racial ideology and white historical memory that was repackaged for 1930s...

... hostility in the latter years of the decade. Sullens Frederick New Deal Great Depression African Americans Harrison Senator Pat Great Depression Franklin Roosevelt Southern conservative Frederick Sullens In the winter of 1932–1933 the United States was being crushed under the enormous weight...

... consciousness. Furthermore, it discusses how the Great Depression, among other factors, enhanced Morgan’s community awareness. Finally, the chapter shows how Strachan and Morgan resorted to community awareness to overcome certain conservative aspects within Adventism that were used by white church leaders...

... Depression Sanctuary Faulkner World War II Great Depression Bookselling book buying book stores literacy rates Midway through “Ambuscade,” the opening story of William Faulkner’s collection The Unvanquished (1938), Bayard Sartoris, the story’s twelve-year-old narrator, lists the books...