Feasting at the Big Quarterly began early in the morning and continued throughout the day. The varied menus consisted of fried chicken, chicken pot pie, ham and cabbage, hot corn pone ....
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Feasting at the Big Quarterly began early in the morning and continued throughout the day. The varied menus consisted of fried chicken, chicken pot pie, ham and cabbage, hot corn pone ....
In part three of our series on Big Quarterly, a revival/food festival that had been held in the city of Wilmington Delaware, we talk about how the event evolved since the antebellum period. By the time Great Depression (1929-1941) Big Quarterly continued to attract large crowds of churchgoing African-Americans of all denominations which viewed it as ...
Big Quarterly—a combination August African-American religious revival/food festival held in the city of Wilmington Delaware. The stories are based on records found in the Library of Congress in Washington DC. During the antebellum period Big Quarterly had been a ...
The pace of the civil rights movement accelerated with the return of World War II soldiers like Medger Evers who fought in France and earned the rank of sergeant during the war. He returned to his home state of Mississippi where he went on to become Mississippi’s first NAACP field secretary setting up his office in Jackson over the top of the Big Apple Inn restaurant. Still open today, Juan “Big John” Mora (1890-1976) opened it back in 1939. Evers did not have adequate office space to hold meetings, and he would often hold them down stairs in Big John's where he would discuss civil rights organizing and protest strategies. When customers came in they liked what they
Historically, the fourth Sunday of lent have been called a day of mothering in which the custom in United Kingdom have been for adult children to travel home to share time with their mothers as if it were a Mother's Day celebration. Children would bring home with them what people called simnel cake . . .
The tradition at least in one part of North Carolina had been to hold a high school commencement/homecoming picnic around Labor Day. How to have a great community event. First . . .
