Industrialization & Capitalism (1890-1930)
Company Towns, Chicago (1893) Pullman Palace Car Company was famous for the rail cars they manufactured in the late 1880s to the early 1890s. In Chicago, George M. Pullman founded… Read more »
Category: Spring 2019
Introduction
Introduction My project will examine economic inequality amongst different groups of people from the late 1860s to the early 1930s. Within this time frame I will touch on four eras… Read more »
Sit-ins
“Greensboro Four” photo, (1960) This photo displays North Carolina A&T students, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil sitting at Woolworth’s lunch counter. Known as the “Greensboro Four”, these… Read more »
Court Cases
Plessy v Ferguson This primary source is a document of the supreme court case from Plessy V. Ferguson. This case was between an African American man Plessy who bought a… Read more »
Boycotts
“Girl, 15, Guilty In Bus Seat Case”, Chicago Defender, (1955) The 1955 Chicago Defender article presents the ruling of a case about a 15-year-old African American girl refusing to move… Read more »
Marches
“March On Washington” New York Amsterdam News, (1963) This New York Amsterdam News article written by Martin Luther King Jr details the plans for the March On Washington. Martin Luther… Read more »
Violent Protests
“Negro and the American Promise” (1963) This 1963 interview with Malcolm X displays Malcolm X’s views on the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr’s methods, and what African Americans should… Read more »
Sources Cited
Primary Sources “Company Towns: 1880S To 1935”. Social Welfare History Project, 2015. https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/housing/company-towns-1890s-to-1935/. Dabney , Virginius. 1944. “Spokesman for the South: Henry W. Grady .”The New York Times. January 14,… Read more »
Bibliography
Secondary Sources Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart. “Women’s America: refocusing the past.” New York: Oxford University Press. 1987. Immerman, Richard H., and Petra Goedde. “The Oxford Handbook… Read more »
Introduction US Foreign Policy in Latin America
Focus of Project This project will examine the role of the United States on Latin American issues since the 1950’s specifically US foreign policy and military intervention. The project… Read more »
Cold War Latin America
“Terminating a Revolution in Guatemala-A view from Guatemala”, (1954) In 1951, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman Bermejo succeeded to Guatemala’s presidency with over 60 percent of the vote and a peaceful… Read more »
End of Segregation in America
Civil Rights Act of 1964 I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and… Read more »
Introduction
This project will examine the various economic theories that permeated fiscal policy between the era that led into the Great Depression through the end… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources A Proud Walk. March 20, 1965. Associated Press. In ‘A Proud Walk’: 3 Voices On The March From Selma To Montgomery. March 20, 2015. Accessed May 5, 2019…. Read more »
Post-Cold War Common Ground
“Speech on North American Free Trade Agreement, and Republican Party Hispanics, George H. W. Bush Administration Civil Rights Files”, (1993) During George H. W. Bush presidency, the governments of the… Read more »
Contemporary US Foreign Policy
“Unauthorized Immigration to the United Sates”, (2006) During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the US was attracting a significant number of immigrants who crossed their borders illegally. Most of… Read more »
Bibliography
Secondary Sources Berk, Jorrit Van Den. Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators: The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Falk, Richard. “United… Read more »
The Great Depression Era: The Buildup and Subsequent Crash
“Monetary Ease – New Federal Reserve Governor”, Overseas Correspondence from The Economist, September 28, 1927 This excerpt from The Economist was published on September 28, 1927 in the London company’s New York correspondent. The… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources: “Primary Documents in American History.” Plessy v. Ferguson: Primary Documents in American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress). May 18, 1896. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/plessy.html. Delano, Jack. “At the… Read more »
Revitalizing the Economy: World War One and the 1950s
“30% Slash Predicted by Batt – He offers Program to Sustain War Production”, The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 1942 This excerpt is from a Wall Street Journal article published on… Read more »