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March 23, 2010
March 21, 2010
Voters Rights March from Selma to Montgomery
It was on this day in 1965 that thousands of marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (books by this author) left Selma, Alabama, headed to Montgomery, to protest the disenfranchisement of African-American voters. They had attempted the march twice before, earlier in the month, but the first time they had been badly beaten by state troopers and deputies, and the second time they were ordered to turn back. This time, under court order, they were allowed to proceed, and by the time they reached the state capitol in Montgomery, there were 25,000 marchers, many answering King's call for people across the country to come and join. One of the people marching at the front of the line, arm in arm with Dr. King, was Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, King's friend and colleague. Heschel said: "For many of us, the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying."
Taken from The Writer's Almanac
March 15, 2010
Grapes of Wrath Wordle
Wordle Cloud Tag for the text of The Grapes of Wrath.
March 13, 2010
LivePlasma - Spheres of Musical Influence
Other cool Visualization sites, including TuneGlue.
March 01, 2010
Steinbeck and the Dustbowl
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AMERICAN MEMORY:
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
How to Cite Sources from American Memory
Documenting America - Photographs of the Great Depression
Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
Voices from the Dust Bowl - The Migrant Experience
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
What is an Ethnographic Field Collection? - Introduction to Field Techniques - How to Do Fieldwork
STEINBECK RESOURCES:
NPR : Grapes of Wrath, Present at the Creation
NYTimes review of Working Days
Interview with Ohio University Steinbeck Scholar Bob DeMott and Notes
The National Steinbeck Center
Steinbeck Country Links & Articles
Steinbeck Country Audio Interview
"Why Read John Steinbeck?"
PBS - The American Novel - THE GRAPES OF WRATH and Interview with Bob DeMott
Search Inside The Grapes of Wrath at Amazon.com
Text of The Grapes of Wrath (PDF)
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs
Horace Bristol's Life Magazine Photographs and the Getty Exhibition
Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Where Fact and Fiction Intertwine - Review of Horace Bristol's Steinbeck photographs
Photographs of Tom Collins
Walker Evans Project
WOODY GUTHRIE & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:
Rambling Round: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Official Woody Guthrie Website
Review: Biography of Woody Guthrie
Tribute to Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'
Springsteen: Steinbeck in Leather
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
RELATED SITES:
US Drought Monitor
Surviving the Dust Bowl - Timeline
The United Farm Workers of America - Chavez, Steinbeck:The ties that bind
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex By Michel Pollan
Dorthea Lange, Steinbeck and Farmworker Links
America's Heartland - Ag Artist
John Cerney - Bumper Crops for the Eye
Giant Sculpture - Crown Packing Co. and John Cerney Murals
Cheap Food Nation
Relationship Farming
Go Further - Woody Harrelson film about "green" living
Lift Every Voice - Ballads, Hymns, Spirituals & Protest Songs (Audio Clips)
Mother Jones: The Woman
Interview With Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger
The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories By James N. Gregory
Alan Lomax - Songhunter - Folklife and Field Recording - PBS
Mother Jones: The Woman
Grapes of Wrath discussion questions
National Civil Rights Museum
Sun Studio
