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Rodney Kite-Powell Oral History Interview
No full textRodney Kite-Powell, Director of the Touchton Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center and author, provides an overview of downtown Tampa in the 1900s. He discusses the role of landmarks like the Tampa Theatre and the Florida Hotel in shaping downtown Tampa\u27s vibrancy. Kite-Powell highlights the decline experienced in the 1970s and 1980s, and the city leaders\u27 efforts toward redevelopment. He addresses accessibility issues that once limited downtown activity and notes how growing historical awareness spurred preservation efforts. Regarding the Tampa Theatre, Kite-Powell explores its origins as a silent theater and the later installation of air conditioning, underscoring its significance as a symbol of Tampa and a testament to successful preservation endeavors
The Annual Walter Rodney Symposium, 2022
No full textThe 19th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium titled "Walter Rodney: 50 Years of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" took place on Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm EST. The virtual conference featured keynote speaker Dr. Joyce Ladner who highlights her relationship with Dr. Walter Rodney. The panel hosted by Kurt B. Young featured Dr. Horace G. Campbell, Professor Issa Shivji, and Walter Bgoya, and discusses the work of Walter Rodney and Julius Nyerere. The panel hosted by Zophia Edwards featured a lecture by Dr. Vijay Prashad and respondents Natasha Shivji, Tamnisha John, Kamau Franklin, and Cindy Peters about the text "How Europe Undeveloped Africa". There were Q & A segments and global remembrances. The 2022 symposium was co-hosted by The Walter Rodney Foundation and the AUC Woodruff Library
Opening Remarks
No full textAs part of the Washington and Lee University School of Law\u27s commemoration of the 100th birthday of Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, legal scholars and journalists gathered at the School of Law for a symposium addressing National Security and the First Amendment. Providing opening remarks were Dean Rodney Smolla, President Ken Ruscio, and Lewis Powell III
Lemac--Rodney up
No full textBlack and white photo of bay gelding Lemac, wearing saddle number two, A. Rodney up for the Classified Trot, Saturday, August 1, 1936 at the 1 Mile Kite Track, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/kendall_images/2737/thumbnail.jp
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Interview with Red Rodney, Part 1
No full textInterview with Red Rodney for Jazz Profiles. Audio from the Rodney interview only lasts until 9:05 of the nearly 2-hour recording. Rodney discusses replacing Miles Davis at the Three Deuces, having not played such fast tempos in the Woody Herman band, being well received at the Three Deuces, how Charlie Parker never told him what to do but showed him, how playing with Parker was his "college and graduate school," why Parker wanted him in the band, taking a $125 pay cut to join Parker's band after Herman's, the 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert, Parker not wanting to rehearse, the Clint Eastwood movie Bird and its accuracy, Chan Parker's influence on the movie, the conscientiousness of the actor, how "Hollywood never gets a real-life jazz picture," the lower prevalence of drug use among young jazz musicians, following the leader on drugs and conduct, Rodney's comeback and the role of his wife, and getting his teeth fixed. The Rodney interview ends here, and is followed by audio of and narration for George Forman's boxing championship read by Ian Thistle, part of an episode of Fresh Air featuring author Walter Kirn (contains frank discussion of sexuality and psychological abuse), another episode of Fresh Air hosted by Chris Spurgeon discussing Thom Jones' book The Pugilist at Rest, news reports from the time concerning U.S. military activity in Somalia and debates over health care, the Hatch Act, and discussion of recent and upcoming episodes of L.A. Law
Walter Rodney Collection
No full textThe Walter Rodney Collection is a compilation of materials donated by a number of individuals and institutions. The donations help to broaden the documentation about the life, contributions, influence, and legacy of Walter Rodney. The collection also includes the work of the Walter Rodney Foundation in establishing the Walter Rodney Symposium and documents the annual symposia through video, ephemera, and photographs. The Walter Rodney Collection will continue to grow as more donations are made. The collection complements the Walter Rodney Papers that were donated to the Robert W. Woodruff Library in 2004.
At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at [email protected]
In Search of D.P. Davis: A Biographical Study of One of Florida\u27s Premier Real Estate Promoters
No full textIn Search of David Paul Davis
No full textThe 1920s land boom in Florida produced a wide variety of characters. Among the most important, but lesser known, of those was David Paul Davis. Davis was born in November 1885 in Green Cove Springs, Florida. His family moved to Tampa in 1895, where he attended school and held a number of different jobs. He left Tampa in 1908 and reappeared in Jacksonville in 1915. That same year, in Jacksonville, he married Marjorie H. Merritt.
The young couple moved to Miami in 1920, where Davis began to sell real estate. He became quite adept, developing a number of subdivisions in the Buena Vista section of the city. He made a considerable fortune in Miami, but lost his wife, who died while giving birth to their second child.
Davis moved back to Tampa in 1924 and began work on the largest development on Florida\u27s west coast. That development, Davis Islands, made him wildly rich and nationally famous. He followed up Davis Islands with Davis Shores, a subdivision in St. Augustine that Davis envisioned as being twice the size of Davis Islands.
The Florida land boom collapsed before Davis could complete Davis Shores. In an attempt to keep the St. Augustine project afloat, Davis sold his Tampa development in August 1926. The effort was in vain and Davis slipped further into debt. He died under mysterious circumstances while en route to Europe aboard a luxury liner on October 12, 1926
The Tampa Times: University of South Florida Campus Edition, March 6, 1961
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