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Subject: Last issue's Historic photo
The Sugar Shack was a dance hall for african americans!!!
Marvin Gaye and other black music artists wrote
songs about the shacks
as well as many prominent authors filled the
pop culture history books too.
Bartcop is great,
Tom K
Subject: Last issue's Historic photo
Bart, if it weren't obviously such an old photo,
I might have guessed
that it was a contemporary polling place in some
black voting district in Mississippi.
hz
Subject: Last issue's Historic photo
The caption should read:
"May 3, 1966, Peachtree, Alabama: African Americans
flock to this polling place in rural Alabama
as they vote in large numbers for the first time
in history. Typical of rural polling places is the Sugar Shack
small store in Wilcox County where black people
outnumber whites almost 3 to 1."
--Raven.
Subject: Last issue's Historic photo
Bart, http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/BE025999.html
African Americans lining up to vote in 1966.
African American voters, able to vote for the
first time in rural Wilcox County, Alabama,
line up in front of a polling station at The
Sugar Shack, a local general store. After the passage
of the federal voting rights law in 1965, there
were almost twice as many black voters than whites.
DATE PHOTOGRAPHED May 03, 1966
BTW, this is from the Wiki on the Voting Rights Act:
The Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights
legislation, though some of its provisions have sparked
political controversy. During the debate over
the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress
objected to renewing the preclearance requirement
(the Act's primary enforcement provision), arguing that it
represents an overreach of federal power and
places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states
that have long since abandoned the discriminatory
practices the Act was meant to eradicate. Conservative
legislators also opposed requiring states with
large Spanish-speaking populations to provide bilingual ballots.
Michael C