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    Lewis H. Coon

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    Black and white head shot photograph of Lewis H. Coon, Professor of Mathematics, 1965-1993.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/archives_faculty_ad/1214/thumbnail.jp

    Coon! Coon! Coon!

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    Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]Although it's not my color [first line]Coon! Coon! Coon! I wish my color would fade [first line of chorus]F [key]Fortissimo Forte [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]Blackface, African-American caricature, photograph of Morris Manley [illustration]Sung with great success by Eddie Leonard & Morris Manley from the South [note

    Bernard H. Coon

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    Bernard Coon graduated from Kearney High School in 1940. He then went to Nebraska State Teachers College at Kearney for a year. His family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Coon would later enlist in the Army. He served in an engineering unit and was killed in a training accident in Camp Campbell, Kentucky

    Tavern at Coon Island photograph

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    Photograph of a tavern at Coon Island in Washington County, Pennsylvania, that served as a hiding place for fugitive slaves that had escaped from Virginia. This photograph was taken by Earle R. Forrest. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history

    Coon Carleton S. — The origin of races

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    B H. Coon Carleton S. — The origin of races. In: Population, 31ᵉ année, n°3, 1976. p. 748

    Jury Decision Making: Is the Devil in the Details? Observations of a Criminal Justice Professor from Inside the Jury Room

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    In this invited essay, author Julie Kiernan Coon, a professor of criminal justice, summarizes and analyzes her experience serving as a juror in a criminal case

    Jury Decision Making: Is the Devil in the Details? Observations of a Criminal Justice Professor from Inside the Jury Room

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    In this invited essay, author Julie Kiernan Coon, a professor of criminal justice, summarizes and analyzes her experience serving as a juror in a criminal case

    The Profoundly Troubling History of the Coon Song

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    This chapter explores the origination of the coon song, a ragtime melody mixing jazz and march music and replete with degrading racial stereotypes. May Irwin was the most prominent white female coon shouter. Songs by Stephen Foster and those performed by William Walker and Bert Williams are discussed, as is the nationwide dissemination of sheet music from Tin Pan Alley. The author examines abolitionism and Radical Reconstruction in African American history and the increase of lynchings of African Americans in Jim Crow America. She then looks at the “Greedy Gal” and the “Idealized” and “Pathetic” coon stereotypes of black life.</p

    Do Not Leave Me Mother Darling

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    80.7568.283 – “Do Not Leave Me Mother Darling” Frank M. Davis: Words by Robert B. Johnson: H. W. Coon: 1872: SATB
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