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Category Archives: June 28 assignment
1916-1932 The fight for freedom of speech on Glasglow Green
The history of the successful struggle to restore freedom of speech and assembly in one of Britain’s oldest parks after it was banned in 1922. 
On April 13th 1916 Glasgow Corporation repealed a bye-law passed in 1896 covering the regulation of City parks and replaced it with bye-law 20, restricting the right of free assembly. The bye-law was not invoked until 1922 when it became responsible for a considerable number of riotous disturbances of the 1920s and 30s.
It toke 8 years to be heard and amendend, even then they were able to assemble outside the gates of the Greens of Joycelyn Square.
The information was located at – http://libcom.org/history/articles/glasgow-green-free-speech-fight.
Posted in 1916-1920, 1920-1932, June 28 assignment
Tagged Freedom, freedom of assembly, quiet protest
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1929 Wall Street Stock crash
The stock market crash in 1929 made many people lose all their money overnight. Many people committed a suicide aftermath. Therefore, the Fox Movietone News made movies advising people to do not put their money on stocks. However, it wouldn’t last long until people started investing their money on stocks again.
Posted in 1920-1932, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized
Tagged 1929, market, stock, Wall Street
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The Bonus Army March 1932
This picture was taken by Veteran Army Signal Corps photographer Theodor Horydczak in June 1932. Picture location – American Treasures of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm203.html
According to Wikipedia.org, this event was a gathering of approximately 43,000 marchers comprised of 17,000 World War I veterans and their families who protested in Washington, D.C., in summer of 1932. The war veterans demanded their cash bonuses which were granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. Each of these certificates was issued only to qualified soldiers and had a face value equal to the soldier’s promised payment, plus compound interest. The issue was that the certificates, just like bonds, matured twenty years from the date of original issuance. In other words, the veterans could not receive their money until 1945.
Most of the Bonus Army camped in a Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats, a muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington. In July, 1932, President Hoover ordered the Army to forcibly remove the veterans. They were forced back to their camp sites. During this time hundreds of veterans were injured and several killed.
Posted in 1920-1932, Economic History, June 28 assignment, Political history, Social History
Tagged Bonus Army, cash bonus, President Hoover, veterans
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Transition from agricultural to industrial economy
The photo above is of Air Mail Service Mechanics. Taken in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924. This is just one of the many new occupations created with new innovative breakthroughs in the early 1900s such as automobiles and airplanes. It transformed America from an agricultural economy to a technologically driven industrial powerhouse it is today.
Posted in 1920-1932, June 28 assignment
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Jazz Age 1920 to 1929
This song is from YouTube. It was introduced in the first recording of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, which is generally considered as one of the bands who had their first Jazz recording in 1917. Their recordings sparked the Jazz Age of the United States.
The Jazz Age describes the period after the end of World War I, through the roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression. Jazz was first performed in New Orleans dating from the early 1910s. In 1920s Following World War I, African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States. With them, they brought their Jazz culture to big cities like New York and Chicago. During this period of time, Jazz was popular music performance in bars, dancing halls and night clubs. Jazz was also changed men’s and women’s fashion style as well.
Posted in 1916-1920, 1920-1932, Cultural History, June 28 assignment
Tagged African American, employment, first jazz recording, Great depression, Jazz, jazz age, music, New Orleans, World War I
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George Cohan’s “Over There”
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Over There is a patriotic song during World War I written by George M. Cohan, and it was widely performed by various artists from its publication in 1917. Notable early recordings include versions by Nora Bayes, Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, initiated by Charles King. Cohan later recalled that the words and music to the song came to him while traveling by train from New Rochelle to New York shortly after the U.S. had declared war against Germany in April 1917 (firstworldwar.com). This song was a nationwide hit in the months immediately following America’s enthusiastic entry into the war. On June 29, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt awarded Cohan the Congressional Gold Medal for this and other songs.
Listen to The Song (Credit:Vintage Audio, firstworldwar.com)
Enrico Caruso – Over There by Enrico Caruso, Nora Bayes – Over There by Nora Bayes, Billy Murray – Over There by Billy Murray
Your Song–Our Song–Our Boys' Song! Over There.
Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy’s in line.Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who’s a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev’rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray’r,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back till it’s over
Over there.
Posted in 1916-1920, Cultural History, June 28 assignment
Tagged 1917, George Cohan, Over There, World War I, WWI
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Espionage Act of 1917 and anti-war women protest
On June 15, 1917, shortly after the US entry into World War I, Congress passed Espionage Act of 1917. According to the Espionage Act any interference with the operation or success of the armed forces of US and support of America’s enemies during wartime was punishable by death or by imprisonment up to 30 years, as well as, disloyalty, mutiny, interferes with military recruitment and refusal of military duty was punishable by imprisonment up to 20 years. In 1918 the Espionage Act was extended by set of amendments, which prohibited many forms of speech, such as any disloyal or abusive language against US government, US flag or US Army and Navy. Next year The US Supreme Court unanimously supported the Act stating that it did not violate the free speech rights of those convicted under its provisions. This Act leads to the several arrests and prosecutions of activist women, such as, Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes-socialist activist, feminist, birth control advocate and writer, or anti-war activist Kate Richards O’Hare during WWI years. But their protests and criticism of the war threatened the national power of the patriotic mothers. They were the very first anti-war protesters, whose ideas succeeded only in mid 70’s with the end of Vietnam War.
Posted in 1916-1920, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized
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Women protest
A photograph of fourteen women suffragists in overcoat on pickets line they are holding suffrage banners in front of the white house. One banner reads: “Mr. the President how long women must wait for liberty.”. This event occurred in 1917 with the White house visible in the background.
Keating Owen Child Labor Act, 1916
During the 1900’s children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous and often fatal working conditions. There were approximately 2 million children working in mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets. Many of these children were under the age of 14. As a result it was important to develope the Keating Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 to protect these children. President Woodrow Wilson signed bill into law on February 29, 1916.
This is the link where the picture can be found: http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_109.shtml
Here is an interesting video on scenes of child labor.
Posted in 1916-1920, June 21 assignment, June 28 assignment
Tagged 1900's, Child Labor, Keating Owen
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
During the progressive era, Upton Sinclair’s novel had a tremendous impact on history. However, Foner briefly speaks of Sinclair in his book. Sinclair was a journalist for the muckrakers, in which the group of reporters investigate various social issues and publish their findings for the public.
Sinclair, in an effort to discover the issues of the meat packing industry, disguises himself as a worker. He later publishes his findings in “The Jungle,” in which he shows the various dangers of working in the meat packing factory. Some of the dangers people faced in working in the meat industry was the possibility of losing part of their hand eventually. For instance, losing your thumb from cutting meat products for an extended period of time or receiving various cut wounds were various types of common injury. Other dangers include contracting a disease from working in dirty/poorly circulated rooms and mutilations of the hand from various types of contact with toxic chemicals.
Other violations of the meat packing industry include food preparations, in which workers process food to cover up the smell of rotting food and mixing various waste parts of an animal. Due to Sinclair’s book, it has publicized the horrors and violations of working in the meat packing industry. This is important because is creates an awareness of the working conditions, which soon lead to laws regulating work conditions, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
The link below is an excerpt from the book “The Jungle.”
http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/meat.htm
Below is a video giving a better idea of the working conditions Sinclair encountered at his time.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 28 assignment
Tagged 1906, drug act, journalist, meat packing industry, muckrakers, pure food act, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, working conditions
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