Introduction
This Museum Exhibition will cover topics of inequality in America spanning from the Gilded Age until the Civil Rights Movement. It will focus on systematic inequalities seen in areas of… Read more »
Category: Jack Ward
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Newspaper Cover Reporting Labor Strikes (1877) This source is the front page of a newspaper published on July 27, 1877 by The Philadelphia Inquirer. In the first line of the… Read more »
The New Deal and World War II
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt on Labor Discrimination (1939) This source was written on April 11, 1939 by Helen M. Eastlock in Haddonfield, New Jersey. It is addressed to Eleanor Roosevelt,… Read more »
The Civil Rights Movement
Brown vs. Board of Education Decision (1955) This source is a court document from the District Court of Topeka, Kansas. It was filed on May 31, 1955 and established law… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Eastlock, Helen M.. Helen Eastlock to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 11, 1939. ProQuest History Vault. https://congressional.proquest.com/histvault?q=001398-010-0938. Delano, Jack. “At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina,” 1940. Library of Congress… Read more »