This photograph of a 1939 Fourth of July celebration in South Carolina is one of many beutiful photographs found here. They are made from color slides taken from 1939 to 1943 by photographers for the Farm Security Administration. They show hard-working, rural people, black and white, across the country. Beautfiul images.
Thanks to Janet Pierson for the link.
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Marlon Brando’s 1973 Oscar win for The Godfather pissed off a lot of people. Why? He sent Sacheen Littlefeather up to decline the Oscar because of Hollywood’s continued stereotyping of Natives, a step that cost both her and Brando. Video of the Oscar moment here. Check out the video, it’s uncomfortable. People try to boo her off stage, but the boos are overcome by applause.
Recently, Littlefeather spoke at a showing of the documentary Reel Injun.
Via Native Times: Brando’s 1973 Oscar stand in recounts fallout
Littlefeather […] says her high-profile advocacy put her life at risk and cut her acting career short.She says when she visited Brando after the ceremony, bullets were fired at his front door. No one was injured.Littlefeather, who went on to appear in just a handful of films, also claims the U.S. government encouraged the entertainment industry to avoid hiring her as part of its effort to quash Native American activism.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6wm80NGUj1qzn843o1_400.jpg)
Marlon Brando’s 1973 Oscar win for The Godfather pissed off a lot of people. Why? He sent Sacheen Littlefeather up to decline the Oscar because of Hollywood’s continued stereotyping of Natives, a step that cost both her and Brando. Video of the Oscar moment here. Check out the video, it’s uncomfortable. People try to boo her off stage, but the boos are overcome by applause.
Recently, Littlefeather spoke at a showing of the documentary Reel Injun.
Via Native Times: Brando’s 1973 Oscar stand in recounts fallout
Littlefeather […] says her high-profile advocacy put her life at risk and cut her acting career short.
She says when she visited Brando after the ceremony, bullets were fired at his front door. No one was injured.
Littlefeather, who went on to appear in just a handful of films, also claims the U.S. government encouraged the entertainment industry to avoid hiring her as part of its effort to quash Native American activism.
Doyers Street, Chinatown, New York City: 1901
A wholesome neighborhood where milk can be purchased “by the glass.”
I would never insult our readers by implying that they don’t know who we, the United States, declared our independence from. But, according to some surveys, as many as 24% of Americans simply do not know (poll). So, be patriotic, spread knowledge.
Taken in the 1940s in Yakima, Washington … the woman on left is completely timeless. (via ink and post)
A lot of what anti-conspiracists consider “extreme” is more a reflection on their own white-bread suburban backgrounds, and the effectiveness of the no-scar lobotomy mill known as the education system, than it is on the content of the ideas they’re dismissing.
Reason magazine’s Jesse Walker has coined the phrase “paranoid center” to highlight a widespread phenomenon: The proneness of those on the center, despite their own patronizing dismissal of “conspiracy theories,” to moral panics about stuff they barely understand. Remember all the manufactured media hysteria about “goths” after Columbine (“… and they watched The Matrix!”), with every kid in black eyeliner and a duster potentially some kind of homicidal racist?
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
Deborah Blum, The Chemist’s War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. Slate (via abcsoupdot) (via robot-heart-politics)
Thanks to Patrick for an absolute gem. Earlier this week, he linked to a fantastic newspaper article written in 1902. That article actually reprinted a paper written five years previously, entitled “Panics and Booms” by L.M. Holt. When Holt wrote the paper, the economy was at the tail end of a depression. Holt argued that booms always follow busts, so folks should anticipate the return of flush times. Fast-forward five years, a new boom was in full swing, and the newspaper republished Holt’s paper as a warning that the next depression was due around 1910, give or take. The Bank Panic of 1907 arrived a bit ahead of schedule.
An early project from the Viennese group Haus-Rucker-Co in 1968 disengaged the wearer from the entire world. ‘Flyhead’, ‘Viewatomiser’ and ‘Drizzler’ were conceptual helmets to repress the senses.
HBO Orders a Season’s Worth of ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ Scorsese Attached
Fresh off directing Vincent Chase in “The Great Gatsby” (for a film adaptation that only existed on “Entourage”), Martin Scorsese has been tapped by HBO to do some real-life work for the cable channel. He’ll be an executive producer of its new series “Boardwalk Empire,” HBO said Tuesday in a news release, which has been ordered for a 2010 debut. Steve Buscemi stars in the series as Nucky Thompson, a man described as “equal parts politician and gangster,” who runs Atlantic City during the Prohibition era.
![William Marcy Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), known as “Boss Tweed,” was an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel.[1]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kof77gYFZp1qz6q52o1_400.jpg)
William Marcy Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), known as “Boss Tweed,” was an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel.[1]
The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in American history classrooms.
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