Civil Rights Era
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) This source was found on the Library of Congress website within the category of Supreme Court cases, in particular, the Warren Court. Decided on… Read more »
Category: Spring 2019
References
Citations “Primary Documents in American History.” Plessy v. Ferguson: Primary Documents in American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress). May/June, 1896. Accessed April 25, 2019. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/plessy.html. “Transcript of… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources “CATHOLICS DOING MUCH FOR NEGRO EDUCATION.” The Pittsburgh Courier (1911-1950), Apr 15, 1933, City Edition. https://envoy.dickinson.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/201970437?accountid=10506. Conley Barrows, Leland. “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of… Read more »
Cold War
NSC-68 (1950) This is an excerpt from a 58-page top-secret report that was created by the National Security Council (NSC) in 1950. The report was given to President Harry Truman… Read more »
Vietnam War
President John F. Kennedy Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba (1962) This is an excerpt of a radio and television report… Read more »
Unconstitutionality of the Black Codes and Voting Restrictions on Blacks
The Black Codes: Blacks were promised voting rights in 1870 with the passage of the 15th amendment, 5 years after the Civil War along with American citizenship. Although freed blacks… Read more »
Biblioography
Primary Sources J. Howard Miller. 1942. “We can do it!” Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, War Production Coordinating Committee. President Warren G. Harding. 1920. “Readjustment” Bridgeport, Conn. : Made by… Read more »
Bibliography
Introduction: Bryant, Joyce. February 2009. “How War Changed the Role of Women in the United States.”Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2002/3/02.03.09.x.html Bumiller, Elisabeth. July 22, 2011. “Obama Ends ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’… Read more »
Changing Women’s Roles and Sexuality: the Progressive Era through the 1950’s
Introduction This project focuses on changing notions of American women’s roles and sexuality from the beginning of the Progressive Era in the 1890s through the 1950s. This time period reflects… Read more »
Introduction
This project will outline the mass immigration to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This is when immigration stations were put in place, enabling the American government to… Read more »
Castle Garden and Ellis Island
Castle Garden, N.Y, Stereograph (1850-1930) This stereograph of Castle Garden by John F. Jarvis and R. Y. Young was taken sometime between 1850 and 1930. The stereograph was clearly taken… Read more »
The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island
Lithographs of the Gold Rush in California (1850) This lithograph of Coloma, California was created in 1850 as part of the Frank Christy collection. The drawing was used as the… Read more »
Restrictive Immigration Policies
The Americanese Wall, as Congressman Burnett Would Build It (1916) In 1916, thoughts of literacy tests, a way for the federal government to accept or reject immigrants based on their… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Berndt, Jerry. Poem carved on wall of Angel Island Chinese immigrant detention center, dormitory room interior. San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, 2003. 2003-06-24. Retrieved from the Digital… Read more »
Introduction:The Portrayal of White Male Exceptionalism through Gender and Race in America: 1865-1920
This project will examine the ways in which the portrayal of white male exceptionalism has impacted women and African Americans in America . It will assess the ways in which… Read more »
1865: African American’s Following the Civil War
Threat From the Ku Klux Klan, 1868 This image is a hand written letter from a member of the Ku Klux Klan to a “radical” . The letter was addressed… Read more »
The Women’s Rights Movement following the Civil War
Woman’s Journal (1872) Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The Woman’s Journal began in the 1870’s and lasted up until the year of 1931. Presented above is one… Read more »
1900’s Lack of Rights for African Americans and Women: Shifts in the Framework of White Male Dominance
Suffrage Songs: Next Election Day by Eugenie M. Ray-Smith (1912) As many other groups in the civil rights movement the Women’s movement also had several songs that exemplified their long… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources “Black Codes (1865)” Oxford African American Studies Center, http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/ps/ps-aasc-0009 Du Bois, W. E. B., “Opinion, The Crisis, 24 (October 1922): 247-53, by W.E.B. Du Bois. Included in What Perspectives Did… Read more »
Introduction
This project will outline how changes in American society were influenced after the United States involvement in major wars, with the main focus on women’s role and African American rights…. Read more »