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Category Archives: 1932-1940
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 ……»
Great Depression
This video would be playing on a television set in a shop window as the main character walks by, as though it was a news program. He stops to see what the rest of the world is watching about what he is living through. There is no sound as he is outside the shop. He walks away shaking his head as if to say, “if they only knew the half of it”.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression
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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.
Four Gold Pens
The title of my documentary refers to the signing of the Federal Reserve Act by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He used four gold pens to sign the document as reported by the New York Times. My documentary consists of real footage and recreated scenes accompanied with great music like the song “Money Makes the World go Round” from the movie Cabaret and “Money” by Pink Floyd. It covers relevant economic history beginning with the Panic of 1907 and ending with the establishment of the FDIC Act in 1933.
The image above shows J. P. Morgan (middle) and his daughter arriving in Washington DC. for the Pujo Hearings. The purpose of the hearings was to investigate the “Money Trust” or the connections between Wall Street bankers who had and still have powerful control over the Nation’s finances. Scenes from the hearings play an important part in my documentary since they show a strong opposition against the financial elite at that time. The hearings took place from May 1912 to January 1913.
Posted in 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged FDIC, Federal Reserve Act, J. P. Morgan, Money Trust, Panic of 1907, Wall Street
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FDR’s First Inaugural Address
This address is arranged at the beginning of my movie. It is FDR’s first inaugural address on March 4th, 1933. At the time, the US was still under Great Depression. He said “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” FDR is the greatest president in the US history. Only one president elected for four times. He overcame Great Depression and led the US and the Allies defeat Nazi German and Japan in World War II.
“Home on the Range” (on the left) is arranged at the end of movie. It’s FDR’s favorite song. “Anchors Aweigh” (on the right) is arranged in Play 4 when FDR was appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the US. It’s the fight song of the US Naval Academy.
Posted in 1932-1940, Final Exam Component, Political history
Tagged FDR, fear, inaugural address, President
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Hoovervilles
This is an image of a Hooverville that I would use in a montage of my film as the character recounts his experience living in one of these shanty towns. They are dubbed Hooverville after President Herbert Hoover who let the country slide into depression. I would like to show my audience that Hoovervilles formed across America and were the last resort for homeless families during the Great Depression. Ordinary people were forced to build new homes for themselves out of whatever material they could find. Most of the residents of Hoovervilles were unemployed and begged for food from charities and other families.
Image taken from u-s-history.com
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression, Hooverville
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The Great Depression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8yxBL21Pk
This is a video that I want to use in my movie. I write about a factory director and his family’s life during the Great Depression and the New Deal. This video portrays the big difference between the roaring twenties and the Great depression. High suicidal rate, starvation and poorness were showed in this video. By adding this video into my movie, I hope people can get a clear sense about what was the real life of a person who lived during the Great Depression.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged 1929, stock market crash, the great depression
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Black Wall Street
This portion of the movie explains that it was not considered a crime to lynch a black in the United States during the Jim Crow era. The message that I’m conveying the audience is that blacks Americans experiences were unique in the United States ; they had endured all kind of atrocities in this land of freedom .African Americans were victims of a system that condemned blackness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPVZw1S2Zs
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Uncategorized
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Riding the Rails during the Great Depression
This is the photo of the teenagers who left their homes during the Great Depression escaping harsh reality and trying to find jobs. By the 1930’s railroad was becoming very popular and many teenagers found some sort of romance in riding the trains. This photo will be included in my movie script showing the episode from that time called “Riding the Rails”.
Posted in 1932-1940, Social History
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