When the Great Depression first began, President Hoover started a lot of programs that might bring some help for the depression but he failed; unemployment rate kept rising. Until 1932, FDR took Hoover’s chair as a new president and started many other policies. He had made extremely realignment in US politics by his New Deal. FDR set up social security, minimum wages, labor standards and many others which directly helped economy and became part of the most important policies in later US.
The first song i want to introduce is “All My Trials” by Anita Carter. this song is based on a Bahamian lullaby that a mother is comforting her child about her death.
The second song is Bright Eyes’ ” When the President Talks to God”.
Topics in two protest songs were changed. In the first one, mother was complaining about inequality, religion and wealth issues. She considered that her suffer were going to be end by her death and it seems was the only way that she could go with. The protest in the first song is about human rights and equality in the society and that is that had happened in 1950s. However in the second song, people start to complain about the president. The protest is not about every individual but about the society. I think in the first song, human fought for their own rights which is directly related to their survive but in the second song, people is expressing their discontent on political leader who has no directly relationship with their life survive.
‘This Little Light of Mine’ is a children’s song written by Harry Dixon Leos in the 1920s. Even though it was not written for protests or the fight against slavery, it became a great anthem for the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s and has been sung to represent the Hope of the civil rights activists. The lyrics of the song is fairly easy to memorize as only one line changes in every verse. The main chorus is “I’m gonna let it shine”. It evokes a sense of empowerment and an encouragement in the listener that was very much needed during the war.
“Born This Way” is a song by famous contemporary singer Lady Gaga . Released in 2011, it adresses the issues of social and racial equality. “Im beautiful in my way, ‘Cause God makes no mistakes, Im on the right track baby i was born this way” and “No matter gay straight or bi, Lesbian transgendered life” are lyrics from the song that directly points out certain discrimination of the minorities. The fight for LGBT rights and the need for hope for LGBT youth or teens from racial minorities to be able to accepted by themselves and the community is highlighted.
Both songs express hope and protest for social rights and equality though a change in the main urban issues is apparent.
Phineas Taylor Barnum – the very name connotes American popular culture in the 19th century. The Great Showman and purveyor of public amusements never shied away from innovation in the course of his varied career, and so it seems only appropriate that a museum devoted to him should have a presence on the information superhighway.
Reading a lot of different soures i found that Barnum filled the American Museum with dioramas, panoramas, “cosmoramas,” scientific instruments, modern appliances, a flea circus, a loom run by a dog, the trunk of a tree under which Jesus’ disciples sat, a hat worn by Ulysses S. Grant, an oyster bar, a rifle range, waxworks, glass blowers, taxidermists, phrenologists, pretty-baby contests, Ned the learned seal, the Feejee Mermaid (a mummified monkey’s torso with a fish’s tail), a menagerie of exotic animals that included beluga whales in an aquarium, giants, midgets, Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, Grizzly Adams’s trained bears and performances ranging from magicians, ventriloquists and blackface minstrels to adaptations of biblical tales and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Museum enjoyed wide popularity. Actually i understand them, because even nowadays i would visit the museum like this with a great pleasure and interest.
Unfortunately this site is limited in scope, unreliable in detail and has too small screen. I don’t think that historian may use it as a credible tool. All exhibit so small so anybody even with great vision could hardly guess what is depicted there. And awful navigation!
i found video on youtube is more demonstrative and complete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiBF0giOZFM&feature=related
Source 1. Evening Post would be a primary source. Tyler Anbinder used this source mostly in his book(so we may assume it gave him many ideas and info for their own book). Evening post illustrates us a lot of information about New York in that time, people and their lives there. There are a lot of data and examples, so reader could easily imagine and compare information. This source seems me convincing too. As example, Evening post reported : ” Lansdowne must have been predisposed to accept Trench’s reasoning, writing him a check on the spot for £8,000 (roughly $650,000 today) to be used to initiate the project. By the end of 1851, Lansdowne had spent £9,500 (perhaps $760,000 today) on emigration.”
Source 2. O’Sullivan Diary would be a secondary. I think that any diary source looks like secondary because diary has subjective opinion of somebody who lived in that time. it covers observation just the only one person. So it could not be objective. But usually it is very interesting, because people in diary write not only common information but goes into details and description as well. What is more fascinating that author reveals his feelings and it has an impressionable effect on the reader. O’Sullivan reported:” I attended myself a poor woman, whose infant, dead two days ago, lay at the foot on the bed, and four others nearly dead at the same dead, and horrible to relate a famished cat got up on the corpse of the poor infant and was about to gnaw it, but to my interference.”
Source 3. Sun would be a primary source mainly because it is newspaper of 1830s. In my opinion Sun reproduces conditions and mood of the city the best way. I found this source credible and reliable. Sun’s reporter was also horrified at how Five Pointers made public spectacles of themselves:”At night the streets and sidewalks are literally blocked by swarms of sturdy vagabonds of both sexes; the grog shops are filled …horrid oaths and execrations burst upon the ear from every tipling house, and brothel, and the most abominable indecencies of every kind, by word and deed, are perpetrated and heard.”
HALLELUJAH, I’M A-TRAVELING
In nineteen fifty-four,
The Supreme Court has said,
Listen here, Mr. Jim Crow
It’s time you were dead.
CHORUS:
Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling
Hallelujah, ain’t it fine;
Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling
Down freedom’s main line.
At Howard Johnson’s one day,
We will all buy a Coke
And the waitress will serve us
And know it’s no joke.
I’m taking a trip
On the Greyhound Bus Line
I’m riding the front seat
To Jackson this time.
In Fayette County,
Set off and remote,
The polls are not open
For Negroes to vote.
Three hundred Freedom Riders
When offered a choice
Six months, three hundred dollars,
Respond in one voice.
REFRAIN:
Hallelujah, I’m a jailbird
And I ain’t paying no fine.
Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling
Down freedom’s main line,
This song was sang during the 1954 segregation protest by the Freedom Riders. Black , white men and women were riding on two greyhound buses in Mississippi protesting peacefully against segregation. They wanted blacks to have the right to be treated equally as white people were and the right to vote. They were attacked by an angry mob composed of white men and women who fired the bus. The people were trying to escape as the bus was on fire; some of them were beaten, others were arrested and sent to jail. This song explains well what they wanted and what they were protesting for.
The song “American skin” released in 2000 talk about the tension between police officers and immigrants. The song refers to how the police treat the immigrants and how they are racist towards them.
1) Read Chudacoff, chapter 10
2) Respond to this post with at least one substantial comment (2-3 paragraphs), judging the effectiveness of government responses to the “urban crisis.” 
Read the comments that have come before you so that you can avoid repetition and add something new to the conversation. Refer to the Chudacoff reading and include page numbers in parentheses when you do so.
Each of the web addresses below are links to their respected protest songs. The first link is a protest song against the racial tension which was existing between African-Americans and whites in the 1950’s. At the time, many African-Americans were protesting for equal rights. The second song was in response to the horrific ruling of President Bush. As one can note by the name of the song, “Lets impeach the President,” the singers and listeners harbored huge tension against the President. They thought he was doing a bad job and wanted change. These songs are both similar in that they both want change. They are different in that the first one wants intangible change while the second one wants tangible change; the first one looks for social change while the second one looks for hierarchal and economic change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_cS_iQ-w0
The first song is Country Joes Anti-Vietnam War Song Woodstock. The second song is 21st century blues. The first song is in protest to the Vietnam war while the second song is in protest to President Bush’s policy’s and the wars going on in the middle east. Though both of them were written using guitars and are both about war and policy’s, they differ in many ways. They differ in that the first one is written and sung to a huge audience while the second one is written and sung online using pictures. The first protest song clearly illustrated the mass amounts of people who disliked the Vietnam War and disapproved of its motives and supporters. Lastly, the second protest song highlights many other aspects other than war, including the economics of the United States and even companies such as ENRON.