Darktown

They went from there across the railroad into what is known as Darktown and Brooklyn; they had sent a committee to remove all the white women and their children down town, where they had prepared a guard to keep them secure.

A Statement of Facts Concerning the Bloody Riot in Wilmington, N. C. Of Interest to Every Citizen of the United States J. Allen Kirk 1898

Still, the neighboring town of Gannon, "a city of predominantly blue-collar white Catholic families [who] had been living there since the end of the Civil War," is so fearful of invasion from "Darktown" that a 24-hour police patrol cruises the border to "keep our city clean."

Bad Mothers and Alcoholic Cops: Freedomland , by Richard Price 1998

It's this "hex factor'" as Linder puts it, that lends recent marathon gallery performances such as "The Darktown Cakewalk" and "Your Actions Are My Dreams" their dandy-occultist allure: Linder channelling mediums and beauty queens, ragtime performers and figures from magical English legend.

Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

Mechanical bank rarities are Jonah and the Whale, Chief Big Moon, Darktown Battery and numerous others.

Reyne Haines: Reyne Gauge: Toys for the Holidays for Grownups! Reyne Haines 2010

Hunter is no Ella Fitzgerald; she's a song-writer, entertainer and interpreter of music dating from the minstrel era (Darktown Strutters Ball) to Yiddish theatre (Be Mier Bist Du Schoen).

Alberta Hunter: Don't Trust Anyone Under 80 Con Chapman 2011

You can see more images from the movie if you visit my Darktown Strutters still gallery at Flickr.

Super Sisters On Cycles! 2007

There is one more sequence which I cannot resist citing: a description of the mechanics of Darktown, a whole and wholely imagined city underneath the streets and sewers of the Big Apple.

Archive 2007-10-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

There is one more sequence which I cannot resist citing: a description of the mechanics of Darktown, a whole and wholely imagined city underneath the streets and sewers of the Big Apple.

Spaceman Blues Bruce Schauble 2007

You can see more images from the movie if you visit my Darktown Strutters still gallery at Flickr.

Super Sisters On Cycles! 2007

An altered state of mind + Darktown Strutters = Dangerous!

Super Sisters On Cycles! 2007