Charles Alden Black Essays

  • Shirley Temple

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    low-budget movies dubbed "Baby Burlesques." (Shirley Temple n. pag.) Her father became her agent and financial adviser.(Shirley Temple n. pag.) Her first contract was with Educational Pictures Inc., for whom she worked in 1932 and 1933. (Shirley Temple Black n. pag.) She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. (Biography for Shirley Temple n. pag.) Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars

  • America's Sweetheart: Shirley Temple

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    2014. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 19 March 2014. . Nelson, Cary. “The Depression in the United States – An Overview.” Modern American Poetry. Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013. Web. 12 March 2014. . “Shirley Temple Black.” The Kennedy Center. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2014. Web. 12 March 2014. . Sonneborn, Liz. “Temple, Shirley.” A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts 2014. Facts on File. Web. 19 March 2014. .

  • Elvis Presley and African American Music

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    1960’s, segregation was present between black and white people. African Americans were suffering from racism, particularly in the south where Elvis Presley grew up. In that time, people in the United States were saturated with Jim Crow laws, which was the name of the racial caste system. Besides this, one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century was Brown vs. Board of Education that made a huge change in public schools. Before this decision, black and white people attended separate

  • Francis Marion

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    Crowell, 1973. •     Risjord, Norman K. "The Swamp Fox: Francis Marion," in Representative Americans. D.C. Heath, 1980. •     Simms, William Gilmore. "The Marion Family," in Southern and Western Monthly Magazine. Vol. 1 (1845): pp. 209--215. •     Alden, John Richard. The South in the Revolution, 1763--1789. •     Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War in the South. Crown, 1969. •     Davis, Burke. The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign. Lippincott, 1962. •     Treacy, M.F. Prelude to Yorktown. University