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Category Archives: Social History
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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Freedmen
This youtube clip examplifies the period of recontruction covered in my movie script proposal.
Posted in 1865-1877, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, freedmen, reconstruction
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“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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Henry Ford
During the early 1900s, electricity and more advanced machinery made factories nearly twice as efficient. Perhaps the greatest increase in efficiency came when Henry Ford perfected the assembly-line production method, which enabled factories to churn out large quantities of a variety of new technological wonders, such as radios, telephones, refrigerators, washing machines, and cars. The increasing availability of such consumer goods pushed modernization forward, and the U.S. economy began to shift away from heavy industry toward the production of these commodities.
The automobile quickly became the symbol of the new America. Although Americans did not invent the car, they certainly perfected it. Much of the credit for this feat went to Ford and his assembly-line method, which transformed the car from a luxury item into a necessity for modern living. A big turning point in America. Can you imagine today being without a car?
This would be in the middle of my movie with triumphful music palying in the background because this was another step America took towards advancement in the industrial world.
Posted in 1900-1916, Economic History, Social History
Tagged Economy, Henry Ford, Industrialization
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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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Statue of Liberty
This is an image of statute of liberty. It was a gift given to the United States by France in 1886 to represent friendship between two countries established during the American Revolution. This image would be portrayed early in my movie. In the background during the Gilded Age, this statute would serve as a symbol of hope for immigrants. Many immigrants would look up to this statute to not only admire America but also find hope of freedom.
Posted in 1880-1890, Cultural History, Social History
Tagged Gilded Age, Immigration, Statute of Liberty
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Tales of an African American
Oprah Winfrey will act a grandmother’s role in my screenplay. I envision her dress like this throughout my screenplay to demonstrate the type of clothing African American wore during the early 1900’s. The cane field in the background will be a set-design in the beginning of my screenplay. The screenplay will focus on turning points for African Americans between 1865 and 1945. Events such as Voting Rights, Segregation, & Halem Renaissance will be portrayed.
Posted in Cultural History, Economic History, Social History
Tagged 1865-1945, African America, Voting Rights, Women
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Pearl Harbor
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAnOtWm5OrM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]This video is about Pearl Harbor which happened on Dec 7 1941. It is at the begining of my screenplay. Pearl Harbor is a very important turning point in American history because it made United States directly involve in World War II and created Japanese Internment camp which impaired Japanese-American physically and emotionally. Also, Pearl Harbor is an important turning point which pushed discrimination wave into a high point under United States governmental power.
Posted in 1941-1945, Political history, Social History
Tagged Discrimination, Japanese Internment Camp, World War II
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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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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
My proposal will included several turning points in American history. One of my turning points is the emergence of monopoly. The envision will appear in the movie that I have imagined in the screenplay proposal will be the creation of the Standard Oil Company. The emergence of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company inspired many others industries to seek total control of the American market, which eventually led to many following historical turning points. In this specific scene, I will be using the 1920’s popular music called Dardanella written in 1919. Listening to the 1920s’ music allowed me to sense the atmosphere during the Gilded Age, especially Rockefeller’s situation being a rich and a happy person at that time. Also, this music combined with Jazz which is relevant to the historical culture as well.
Posted in 1920-1932, Social History
Tagged Dardanella, Gilded Age, Rockefeller, The Standard Oil Company
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