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Category Archives: 1890-1900
Chinese Exclusion Act
Photocredit: University of California at Berkeley
This political cartoon from the late 1800s depicts the seething animosity towards Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. White immigrants and white Americans alike joined in accusations of the Chinese for stealing jobs and lowering wages. They rallied to drive the Chinese out of their neighborhoods and forced them into concentrated slums all over the country and called it “Chinatown”. This cartoon depicts a Chinese person with sub-human characteristics, as with many cartoons during that era. It was a systematic attempt to dehumanize the Chinese population as to make whites feel more superior. My film will highlights the discrimination and struggles of Chinese immigrants during that period.
Posted in 1865-1877, 1880-1890, 1890-1900, 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Cultural History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged chinese, chinese exclusion act, chinese immigration
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Congressmen Dickstein – American fascism fighter.
400 rabbis column marching in Washington to draw attention to the plight of Holocaust victims in 1943. The video of the marching rabbis will be mixed with the footage of documentary chronicles of the children in concentrate camps like Auschwitz. The melodies of Jewish lullaby will play on a background. Beautiful and calm melody will only increase and emphasize the horror of the tragedy that was happening all over the Europe. Rabbis approaching the steps of the U.S. Capitol and meeting with Senator William Warren Barbour. The voice of the main hero – Congressmen Dickstein on a background saying: « Senator William Warren Barbour was one of a handful of politicians who proposed legislation that would have allowed as many as 100,000 victims of the Holocaust to emigrate temporarrily to the United States, but unfortunately he died six weeks later after introdusing the bill and it wasn’t passed. I introdused the parallel bill in the House of Representatives, which also failed to pass. During the Holocaust, fewer than 30,000 Jews a year reached the Unted States, and some were turned away due to immigration policies. The US didn’t change its immigration policies until 1948. Because of that so many many people died, that could be saved ……»
Evolution of Freedom [1865-1945]

The Evolution of Freedom begins in 1787
One of the iconic songs based of the Woodstock concerts was “Freedom” by Richie Havens. This video highlights a freedom revolution that occurs in 1969 but is based off a culmination of events before it. My documentary shows how freedom was subjective to the American populations and had different meaning evolve for it throughout the years. Foner does make a mention of this as the chapters progress, or in our case as we looked back at history. The documentary will begin and end with this song.
“Where is my Freedom?”
In my movie, “Where is my Freedom?”, I want to mention this picture in the time between 1890 to 1900. This picture represent the exact scenario of “separate but equal” doctrine. Here I find that the colored people (originally black people) were being insulted by this doctrine. After the 1896 court case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the “separate but equal” clause became law. African Americans were entitled to “equal” public places as whites, but they have to use separate places. This “separate but equal” law had huge impact in American society until the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s.
Posted in 1890-1900, Cultural History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged African-Americans, Civil Rights Movement, Freedom, seperate but equal
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” Father Was Killed by a Pinkerton Man” song in my movie
“The Homestead Strike”
Now, boys, we are out on strike, you can help us if you like,
But you need not till I tell you what it’s about.
They want to lower our wages, we think it is not right;
So for union’s cause I want you all to shout.
We will sing the union’s praise while our voices we can raise,
With noble Mr. Garland at our head,
Hugh O’Donnell’s good, that’s true, we give him all the praise;
We can’t go wrong when by such men we’re led.
The struggle may be long, there’s no one yet can say,
But we’ll take it as it comes for a little while;
We will fight both night and day, for we’re bound to win the day,
And down this great steel king in grandest style.
Now let us all stand firm and take things very cool,
Then, you bet, we’re sure to win this little strike;
But if men don’t mind and start and act a fool,
That’s sure to cause no end of care and strife.
My advice to you is this, let us work with a cool head,
And try and do the best thing in our power;
We’ll have the good will of all, which will bring us back our bread,
And drive the demon Hunger from our door.
Let us unite with heart and hand and spread the news through this broad land,
We’ll not give in until the company yield,
And fight with might and main and travel hand in hand
To win this strike or die upon the field.
“The Fort that Frick Built”
Twixt Homestead and Munhall
If you’ll believe my word at all
Where once a steel works noisy roar
A thousand blessings did pour
There stands today with great pretense
Enclosed within a white washed fence
A wondrous change of great import
The mills transformed into a fort.
“Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men”
‘Twas in a Pennsylvania town not very long ago
Men struck against reduction of their pay
Their millionaire employer with philanthropic show
Had closed the works till starved they would obey
They fought for home and right to live where they had toiled so long
But ere the sun had set some were laid low
There’re hearts now sadly grieving by that sad and bitter wrong
God help them for it was a cruel blow.
CHORUS:
God help them tonight in their hour of affliction
Praying for him whom they’ll ne’er see again
Hear the orphans tell their sad story
“Father was killed by the Pinkerton men.”
Ye prating politicians, who boast protection creed,
Go to Homestead and stop the orphans’ cry.
Protection for the rich man ye pander to his greed,
His workmen they are cattle and may die.
The freedom of the city in Scotland far away
‘Tis presented to the millionaire suave,
But here in Free America with protection in full sway,
His workmen get the freedom of the grave.
(CHORUS)
“Song of a Strike”
We are asking one another as we pass the time of day,
Why workingmen resort to arms to get their proper pay.
And why our labor unions they must not be recognized,
Whilst the actions of a syndicate must not be criticized.
Now the troubles down at Homestead were brought about this way,
When a grasping corporation had the audacity to say:
“You must all renounce your union and forswear your liberty
And we will give you a chance to live and die in slavery.”
Now this sturdy band of workingmen started out at the break of day,
Determination in their faces which plainly meant to say:
“No one can come and take our homes for which we have toiled so long,
No one can come and take our places—no, here’s where we belong!”
When a lot of bum detectives come without authority,
Like thieves at night when decent men were sleeping peacefully—
Can you wonder why all honest hearts with indignation burn,
And why the slimy worm that treads the earth when trod upon will turn?
When they locked out men at Homestead so they were face to face
With a lot of bum detectives and they knew it was their place
To protect their homes and families, and this was neatly done,
And the public will reward them for the victories they won.
Source: “The Homestead Strike”: The Homestead Strike Songster (New York: n.d.). Reprinted in Philip S. Foner, American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 243.
“The Fort that Frick Built”: Printed card (1892), AFL Archives, Washington, D.C. Reprinted in Philip S. Foner, American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 243.
“Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men”: Sigmund Spaeth, Weep Some More, My Lady (Garden City, N.Y.: 1927), 235–236. Reprinted in Phillip S. Foner, American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 244.
“Song of a Strike”: George Swetnam, “Song of a Strike,” (1892). Reprinted in Linda Schneider, “The Citizen Striker: Workers’ ideology in the Homestead Strike of 1892,” Labor History 23 (Winter 1982): 60.
I will play this song in my movie, where the laborers and workers sing this song during the strike in 1892 Homestead, PA. This strike was the bitter part of the Gilded Age History. This song was originally inspired during strike at the Andrew Carnegie Steel Works. It reminds us the harsh and violence of Gilded Age. The industrial freedom was needed in America. It is very hard to believe this nation was in need of freedom even after ” Statue of Liberty” was gifted to America in 1886.
Posted in 1890-1900, Cultural History, Final Exam Component
Tagged Final Paper, Freedom, Music in 1890's
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Gold Fever in 1898
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcsYMTyZcE
This clip is segment of short film called " City of God " from 1950's. A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of dramatic discovery of gold. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia,Canada and the United States. The gold rush started in Alaska in 1898. This is important event in history as it many of the people rich, it was like " free for all". There were also some deadly incidents occured during the gold rush. The Palm Sunday avalanche was one of the most widely reported events of the gold rush.
Posted in 1890-1900, June 29 assignment
Tagged 1890 to 1900, Gold Fever, Migration of workers
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