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If you have watched any sort of television about Black life in the last few years it would be hard to miss the image of six-year-old standing alongside her aunt in Alabama under a Colored Entrance sign. But while the image has been used to exemplify an America that once was, the story of Shirley Blackwell and her mother Allie Lee Causey being told is long overdue.
The most notorious episode in his career didn’t even make O’Rourke’s obituaries, perhaps because we’re afraid to say what happened.
The market in “Martinware” pottery is booming with many of the grotesque figures fetching tens of thousands of pounds. But there are still bargains to be had, says Chris Carter.
A letter from Robert Wallace:
Arbroath-born James Chalmers played an important part in British postal history and produced the forerunner to the Penny Black.