Today we're traveling back to 1960s Baltimore with Hairspray! Join us for a discussion of flashers, the Baltimore accent, flags in classrooms, interracial relationships on TV, and more!

Sources:

Flashers:

F.G. Rooth, "Some Historical Notes on Indecent Exposure and Exhibitionism," Medico-Legal Journal 38, no. 4 (1970): 135-139. Stuart P. Green, "To See and Be Seen: Reconstructing the Law of Voyeurism and Exhibitionism," The American Criminal Law Review 55:2 (2018): 203-258. Thomas L. Fowler, "Of Moons, Thongs, Holdings and Dicta: State v. Fly and the Rule of Loaw, 22 Campbell L. Rev. 253" Campbell Law Review (Spring 2000). https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/sex-crimes/public-indecency/ N-gram "Exhibitionist" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=exhibitionist&year_start=1600&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=true Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/07/01/ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Breastfeeding State Laws," NCSL (7/9/2020). https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx https://casetext.com/case/messina-v-state-11#p606

Flags in Classrooms:

Arizona HB2583 https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/summary/s.2583k12-hed_asenacted.doc.htm 4 U.S. Code § 6, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/6 Amy Crawford, "How the Pledge of Allegiance Went From PR Gimmick to Patriotic Vow," Smithsonian Magazine (September 2015). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-gimmick-patriotic-vow-180956332/ "Pledge of Allegiance Law Overturned," New York Times (5 September 1970). https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/05/archives/pledge-of-allegiance-law-overturned-in-maryland.html#:~:text=ANNAPOLIS%2C%20Md.%2C%20Sept.,to%20the%20United%20States%20flag. https://codes.findlaw.com/md/education/md-code-educ-sect-7-105.html Michael Lipka, "Five Facts about the Pledge of Allegiance" Pew Research Center, (4 September 2013) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

Interracial Kisses on TV:

Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. US Code of Television Practices for Broadcasters, Full Text: http://www.tvhistory.tv/SEAL-Good-Practice.htm Raj Tawney, "Was I Love Lucy Ahead of Its Time?" Television Academy, available at https://www.emmys.com/news/online-originals/was-i-love-lucy-ahead-its-time "Uncovered Footage Reveals TV's First Interracial Kiss, Long Before Star Trek," CNN, available at https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/world/first-interracial-kiss-on-tv/index.html Donald Liebenson, "50 Years Ago, a White Woman Touching a Black Man on Television Caused a National Commotion," Vanity Fair, available at https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/harry-belafonte-petula-clark-1968-civil-rights-arm-touch-national-commotion Dr. Jason Johnson, Twitter Post on Benson: https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/1172929913676083206

Baltimore Accent:

Erik Singer, Technique Critique: Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents. Wired. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE Lexicon of Bawlimorese, Baltimore Hon. Available at http://www.baltimorehon.com/ Maryland 2, International Dialects of English Archive: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/maryland-2 Interview with HL Mencken, Library of Congress. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000006/ Accent Expert Explains Similarities Between Different Accents. Wired. Available at https://www.wired.com/video/watch/accent-expert-explains-similarities-between-different-accents

Film Background:

Jeffrey Kare, "The Journey of Hairspray: From Screen to Stage and Back Again!" Broadway World. Available at https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-Journey-of-HAIRSPRAY--From-Screen-to-Stage-and-Back-Again-20161207 "When It Comes to Baltimore, John Travolta Does It His Way," Baltimore Sun, available at https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bs-xpm-2012-11-05-bs-ae-travolta-1104-20121103-story.html