Spear tells of how the Negro population increased dramatically on the eve of and after World War 1, although it was mostly through African Americans moving north from states such as Kentucky and Missouri. By this time, African Americans had already carved out a niche in Chicago society, working mostly in service industries, and living in the south and west sides of Chicago. Although there was a concentration of African Americans in this area, they were also spread out across the Chicago area. The 1910 Census reported that of 431 census tracts, African Americans were living in all but 94. 88 tracts had at least 1% African American population, and only 4 were above 50%, with none being above 61%.
“These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter”(Gladwell 1). He is right, all the sit-ins that started in Greensboro all started without the help of emailing, Facebook, or Twitter, but it started due to strong ties. And yes, Gladwell is right that these strong ties between friends was the essential motivation to actually go through with their plan. Within a week, sit-ins had spread all over the south , and once again it did it with out social networking, and it was the strong ties of the Greensboro sit-ins that helped transform the weak ties from all the other cities to strong
This allowed many Black Americans to get jobs and played a major role in the country’s war effort. As a result of the boom, the number of unemployed black Americans fell from 937,000 to 152,000. 48% of the black population was urban at the end of the war and jobs in the cities paid more than those in the country allowing Black Americans to be paid more than ever before. This shows an improvement of the position of Black Americans in society. Voting rights were also improved during this time period.
Reveals that Southern blacks jumped on trains to move to the cities, hundreds to thousands moved to Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, in the 1915 to 1925. Which lead to negative and positive issues; negative where they faced living in crowded ghettos and one-room
According to Elsa Barkley Brown and Thomas C. Holt, editors of Major Problems in African American History, “Between 1910 and 1930 more than a million African American men, women, and children left their homes in the south and took up residence in mostly urban areas throughout the country” (126). Within that period, an estimated half-million African Americans migrated between 1916 and 1921. “This period of rapid population shift is known as the Great Migration” (Brown and Holt 126). Also, thousands of black immigrants from Caribbean countries entered the United States during this time period to settle in urban areas. Because of the huge impact of these migrations on African Americans and on the nation at large, it is important to understand the causes and patterns of migrations, why migrants decided to relocate and how they organized, how migrants were received by African American already living in urban areas, how migrants expectations were met, and institutional and cultural changes as a result of this movement.
The March on Washington was about a large rally of civil and economic rights for African Americans. This event took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic speech I Have a Dream advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. This march was helled by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom." The march had about 200,000 police to over 300,000 leaders of the march.
Stuart Johnson SMPA 3479.10 Seavey 9/24/12 Salesman (1968): Film Analysis Beginning in the 1950s, light, dependable cameras with portable sync sound gave documentary filmmakers the flexibility to shoot wherever they wanted. This technological advance, along with many others in the industry, allowed Albert and David Maysles to produce a documentary film chronicling the lives of four bible salesman by actually filming their meetings with potential customers inside their homes. In doing so, Salesman (1968) strives to shows audiences what would have occurred in reality were the cameras not there to observe it. For the most part, Salesman effectively humanizes the main characters in the film by exposing the two faces of a salesman: the face he shows to his peers, and the face he shows to his customers. However, a few intimate scenes with the main protagonist, Ryan Brennan, seem to have been affected by the documenter in a manner that benefits the story the Maysles brothers want to tell.
Most people are unaware that the greatest output of feature films in the US occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, averaging about 800 film releases in a year. This had an impact on society, as people could escape from their everyday stress and worries, and could relax for two to three hours by not thinking about anything. Also people were inspired by film actors at the time. Furthermore, many say that it is also accurate because of the up rise in sports in the US. The Roaring Twenties was the breakout decade for sports across the modern world.
Unlike the radio before it, the television made it possible to view live events right in one’s living room. Car culture, in 1950, U.S. automakers produced 6.7 million cars. In 1955, the decade, peak year for car production, that figure jumped to 9.2 million cars. (Charles A. Will) more and more people of this time had cars and this sprung up new businesses in car culture as in drive in movies theaters, drive in restaurants, and drive in bank Atm’s.
I have had many crystal moments throughout my 24 years of life. One moment I would like to share is when I first got my driver’s license. I grew up in a very quiet neighborhood away from anything remotely fun for a teenager in high school to do. There was no bus line on that side of town; even if you wanted to walk the nearest gas station was at least 3 miles away. My sister started driving at 15 with no license, but I my parents made it very clear they didn’t trust me with the car like they trusted my sister.