Rough tactics: black performance in political spectacles, 1877-1932

Abstract

Introduction -- "Out in full force": Black participation in spectacular politics before disfranchisement, 1877-99 -- "A contest in music": Election-Day spectacles in the Central Georgia Temperance Campaigns, 1885-99 -- "A strictly social function": The contest of Black labor and Confederate memory at the 1903 UCV Reunion -- "Furious music": African Americans, political spectacles, and street theater in the post-disfranchisement South, 1909-32 -- "To do our bit for good government": W.C. Handy, E.H. Crump, and the 1909 Memphis mayoral election -- "I didn't really know how to show my opposition": Street theater in the twenty-first century.