4 1947 Mobile ALABAMA newspapers wCoverag SEGREGATED \"COLORED\" MARDI GRAS PARADE
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4 1947 Mobile ALABAMA newspapers wCoverag SEGREGATED \"COLORED\" MARDI GRAS PARADE:
$75.00
4 1947 Mobile ALABAMA newspapers with detailed LOCAL COVERAGE of the Mobile , ALABAMA SEGREGATED \"COLORED\" MARDI GRAS PARADE -inv #3Y-120
Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----Four (4) COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,the Mobile Register (ALABAMA) dated Feb 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1947.These 4 newspapers contain LOCAL Mobile, AL coverage of the \"Colored\" MARDI GRAS PARADE and celebration in the highly segregated city of MOBILE, Alabama during the era of JIM CROW segregation in the South.
In 1939, The Colored Carnival Association (later to be renamed the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association) selected a king and queen and elected the \"Mayor of Colored Mobile,\" later retitled Grand Marshal.
This newspaper contains National and International news as well as LOCAL ads and news from the highly segregated city of MOBILE, Alabama during the Jim Crow era. It reflects the segregationist point of view in the deep Southjust before and during the Civil Rights era in US history.
Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama. It is the oldest annual Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman Nicholas Langlois in 1703. This was fifteen years before New Orleans was founded, although today their celebrations are much more widely known. From Mobile being the first capital of French Louisiana (1702), the festival began as a French Catholic tradition. Mardi Gras in Mobile has now evolved into a mainstream multi-week celebration across the spectrum of cultures in Mobile, becoming school holidays for the final Monday and Tuesday (some include Wednesday), regardless of religious affiliation.
Although Mobile has traditions of exclusive societies, with formal masked balls and elegant costumes, the celebration has evolved over the past three centuries to become typified by public parades where members of societies, often masked, on floats or horseback, toss gifts (known as throws) to the general public. Throws include necklaces of plastic beads, doubloon coins, decorated plastic cups, candy, wrapped cakes known as Moonpies or snacks, stuffed animals, and small toys, footballs, frisbees, or whistles.
The masked balls or dances, where non-masked men wear white tie and tails (full dress or costume de rigueur) and the women wear full length evening gowns, are oriented to adults, with some mystic societies treating the balls as an extension of the debutante season of their exclusive social circles. Various nightclubs and local bars offer their own particular events.
Beyond the public parades, Mardi Gras in Mobile involves many various mystic societies, some having begun in 1704, or ending with the Civil War, while new societies were formed every century. Some mystic societies are never seen in public parades, but rather hold invitation-only events for their secret members, with private balls beginning in November, each year.
Highlights of Mobile Mardi Gras history include the crowning of \"royalty.\" In 1872, Daniel E. Huger first reigned as Carnival King Felix I, and a carnival association was established. Ethel Hodgson ruled as Mobile\'s first Mardi Gras queen in 1893. Later, in 1939, The Colored Carnival Association (later to be renamed the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association) selected a king and queen and elected the \"Mayor of Colored Mobile,\" later retitled Grand Marshal. In 1968, Joe Cain Day was established as an all-inclusive street celebration that anyone was welcome to join.
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4 1947 Mobile ALABAMA newspapers wCoverag SEGREGATED \"COLORED\" MARDI GRAS PARADE:
$75.00