License to Operate an "African Dip" Dunk Tank
Published by Borough of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 1940
- Used
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
AbeBooks seller since July 25, 1997
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 575.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Single partially printed document. 8" x 4.5". Printed rectos only. Blank spaces filled in with type and signed by the Borough Clerk Mary Tindall and Mayor J. Stanley Tunney. License made out to Fred Pettit, listed in the 1940 census as the proprietor of an amusement park. Light crease and a couple of tiny spots, near fine. The African Dip was a racist carnival attraction which featured a Black man in a dunk tank, whose job was to heckle customers into throw balls in order to spring the mechanism that would dump him into the dunk tank. Organizations such as the NAACP attempted to stop the practice without success, but eventually the popularity of the "sport" fell out of fashion as the Civil Rights Movement progressed, replaced by less racially specific dunk tanks that still exist today. Very scarce.
Seller Inventory # 548761
Bibliographic details
- Title
- License to Operate an "African Dip" Dunk Tank
- Publisher
- Borough of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Seaside Heights, New Jersey
- Publication year
- 1940
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Unbound
- Seller catalogs
- African-Americana, Ephemera
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