"‘Dance Diva’ Mary Ann Sundown dead at 93 A Yup’ik great-great-grandmother with a Buster Keaton-like deadpan face, lively eyes and an infectious laugh, Mary Ann Sundown was probably the most popular dancer in Alaska in any genre. She died Wednesday at home in Scammon Bay."
Pensioner, 90, banned from wife’s nursing home after ‘falling on’ carer who claimed it was assault By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:14 AM on 06th August 2009
Stampp was the author of “The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South,” a 1956 book that marked a turning point in historians’ treatment of slavery. Rejecting the moonlight-and-magnolias mythology that inspired such stereotypes as the benevolent plantation owner and the smiling black mammy, he concluded that slavery was in fact a “most profound and vexatious social problem,” a radical view in an America that had just begun to experience the tremors of the modern civil rights movement.
