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 ...
In August historically the most enthusiastically attended African-American event in the state of Delaware had been Big Quarterly a celebration held in the city of Wilmington. It attracted attendees from as far away as Georgia, West Virginia, and New York. It had been a day of . . .
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