January, 2010:
Racial Stereotypes in Tobacco Ads – Smoke Seal of North Carolina Plug Cut Tobacco – Savannah, GA
Examples of Racial Stereotypes in Seal of North Carolina Tobacco ads
Who was their target audience?
Online resources:
- Digital Collections – Miami University – Victorian Trade Cards
- Chronicling America dot LOC dot org – December 22, 1888 – chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064205/1888-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/;words=Plug Cut North cut smoke seal NORTH Carolina
- North Carolina Plug Cut Tobacco – Worthpoint dot com
– – – Adam Clayton Powell was a homophobe! – – – Marlon Riggs: Black Is, Black Ain't – Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Marlon Riggs & Blackness
Previously posted on Fading Ad Campaign website.
Adam Clayton Powell threatened to spread a rumor that Bayard Rustin & Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr were having an affair unless King fired Rustin from his integral leadership position in the Civil Rights Movement. Bayard went on to organize the August 28, 1963 March on Washington at A. Phillip Randolph’s insistence.
LINKS:
Tribute to Haitian Soldiers – Les Chasseurs Volontaires de Saint Domingue – 1779 – Revolutionary War Savannah, GA
Haitian Disaster Relief Links:
- Bradenton County, FL – slideshow & list of relief agencies
- Save the Children dot org