It was these moral which then forced Darrow to quit corporate law and help the people, he began practicing labor law and in 1894 Darrow represented Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the American Railway Union, who was prosecuted by the federal government for leading the Pullman Strike of 1894. Darrow severed his ties with the railroad to represent Debs, making a financial sacrifice. He saved Debs in one trial but could not keep the union leader from being jailed in another. Ammirus Darrow was a very important influence on his son Clarence. Ammirus was an iconoclast who publicly expressed atheistic views and abolitionist beliefs which deeply influenced and had a lasting impact on the young Clarence Darrow.
The suffragette movement gained strength in America after black men got the vote (though most southern black men were effectively disenfranchised by literacy laws, the poll tax, threats and intimidation etc). Just as, in the UK, the movement grew when working class men got the vote. In both countries there was great resentment amongst upper class women that men of inferior social status could vote, when they couldn't. It spurred them on to greater efforts. The abolition movement was the movement to abolish slavery.
In example, the CCC creates separated camps between blacks and whites or the NRA was tolerating that blacks received less money than whites for the same jobs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins were enforcing racial justice, the president created the “Black cabinet” offering position to numbers of blacks into his administration. African-Americans were employed in the New Deal agencies and more were appointed to jobs with the federal government than ever before. But most important problems were not solved. For instance “In Atlanta, Georgia, a Klan-like group called the Black Shirts paraded carrying signs that read, "No jobs for niggers until every white man has a job"(Jim Crow).
Many were turned down at an immigration station: Angel Island, while others were pushed out of finding gold and forced to work degrading jobs. They were looked at as an unwanted completion by native-born Americans, in1882 the Chinese Execution Act was passed banning Chinese labors to immigrate. Approximately 5 million Germans, as well as 1 million Irish immigrants made the journey to the United States in the 19th century. Majority of the Irish immigrants went to New York or Massachusetts, most German immigrants spread around the Midwest for farming. Unlike the Irish the Germans had more money to take them further in America.
People didn’t know who to trust. The sailors at the nearby Kronstadt naval base who were in close contact with the workers supported the strikers in Petrograd. In March 1921, they mutinied in the hope of starting a riot against the Bolsheviks. They demanded multiparty democracy and civil rights. As the sailors were heroes of the 1917 revolution against the PG, their uprising came as a shock to the Bolsheviks, especially to Lenin.
In the early nineteenth century only men with above a certain amount of wealth or land were able to vote, and people, especially the working class concluded that this wasn’t fair and started to in a sense, rise up, and join the charter movement which is tracked back to eighteenth-century radicals. Let’s look at more specific economic reasons that led to the charter being formed. Firstly, industrial and agricultural workers were still facing harsh conditions in their workplaces, mainly low wages, periods of low unemployment and high prices. This led to a country felt resentment of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the sense of not being able to change anything through mainstream parliamentary politics, which was of course at this time dominated by upper classes. This leads on to another cause that led to the Chartism movement, the disappointment of the 1832 Reform Act.
The revolt started on a wintery Sunday, 22nd of January when a peaceful, mildly reformist, protest march in St. Petersburg was shot at by troops with up to two hundred marchers killed and hundreds more being injured earning the appropriate name of “Bloody Sunday”. This protest was the turning point of the joyful relationship the Tsar had maintained with the Russian population. Rather than squelching the protests, the repression fanned the flames of rebellion. The peaceful demonstration now known as Bloody Sunday, led by Father Gapon, was not, in any way, a political protest, but a plea for help. Father Gapon carried the Workers Petition, in which the Peasants and working class people asked for assistance from the Tsar, by improving working conditions and reducing the hours required for working on their land.
The Klu Klux Klan was active and the Nativist Movement against blacks, Jews and foreigners was growing (Williams, 1954). The so called ‘new immigration’ of over 800 000 foreigners in 1920 furthered the dislike of foreigners. The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was passed, establishing a yearly quota limiting immigration (Williams, 1954). This was later replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924, further restricting immigration. The US government also raised tariffs on US exports and imports, to and from Europe in an attempt to strengthen the economy and establish the US as economically independent (Williams, 1954).
Between May and early June 1989, more than 200,000 soldiers from the Government’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were stationed around Beijing. During this time, the party split over how to deal with the demonstrators. A hardline faction led by Deng Xiaoping proposed martial law, while a reform faction led by Zhao Ziyang attempted to convince the students to cease their protesting peacefully. The days between the 3rd and 4th of June became the climax of the protests, gaining widespread publicity. When the crowd had refused to disperse by the 4am deadline, troops began to fire on the protesters in order to clear the square for the impending visit of USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
In the Industrial Revolution, individuals were forced to move to the crowded cities stricken with disease to work manufacturing/factory jobs. Children were forced to work at young ages and women obtained jobs due to poverty. Slaves were also used greatly to produce raw materials needed for manufacturing. In reaction, many reform groups, such as Wilberforce’s anti-slavery society, were developed to make conditions better for everyone. (Daft & Lane, 2011,2008) This did not stop companies from being selfish.