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Popular Culture History

Popular culture can be regarded as people employing mechanisms and symbols accessible to them to make sense of their lives and to resolve --realistically or fancifully--the contradictions that beset them. (Paul Buhle, editor, Popular Culture in America,xi).


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Art

 

Walking that Extra Mile

 

 

 

 

 

"Protest" by Jimmy Mosley,Jr. (1960's)

 

Protest picture

 

 

The Aftermath of Emancipation

 

 

 

"Civil Rights March 11" by Corinne Mitchell (1961-65)

 

Civil Rights March ll

 

A Precious Commodity

 

"Wanted Poster No.4 (Sara)" by Charles White (1969)

 

Picture of Wanted Poster no.4

 

Isolating the American Dream

 

"Mrs. Jackson" by Marie Johnson (1968)

 

 

 

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