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Box 2494-002

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

"Busting Out: African American Culture from the 1954 Republican Lincoln Day Box Supper to the 1955 Emmet Till Lynching as Documented by the Chicago Defender." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 29 (2004): 541-562. Offprints (21 pages)—4 copies.

 Item — Box: 2494-002, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 9:
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of the research done by Dr. James M. Salem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, for his book, The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R and B to Rock and Roll. Materials include audio recordings, correspondence, research notes and documents, that relate not only to Johnny Ace specifically, but to the larger context of African American Popular Culture in the 1950s. Included in the collection are various 33 1/3, 78,...
Dates: 1929-2003