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- When Will It Ever Change?
July 11, 1930
New York, New York
Crime/Violence, African-Americans, LynchingNews stories relating ‘death by accident,’ ‘murder by one of own’ or even an ‘unsolved mystery’ are just too far-fetched to explain the discovery of so many ‘Negro’ bodies found in the swamps or in uninhabited places in 1930. It is inconceivable to think that the white tyrannical press believe that we are fooled by their fabrications about the missing southern ‘Negro’ workers,”...
- How one woman helped to valut African American culture into the spotlight October 29, 1932 Orange, Florida, New York, New York Harlem Renaissance, Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations
Born in 1891 in rural Alabama, Zora Neale Hurston spent her childhood in the first incorporated black town in the nation, Eatonville, Florida. Zora attended school in Eatonville until only 13 years old, when she traveled to New York City with a traveling theatre company. In the city that never sleeps, Zora would develop her creative mind and make her mark on history. Hurston seized the tremendous opportunity...
- Information Passed On: A German Attempt to Curb anti-Nazi sentiment August 8, 1933 New York, New York War, Foreign Politics, League of Nations
Over seventy-seven years ago, on the eighth of August, 1933, Dr. Daniel Mulvihill (a New Yorker) was assaulted by a German citizen while he was visiting Berlin, apparently because he had failed to “salute a Nazi detachment.” A few weeks later, on the twenty-fourth of that month, Dr. Mulvihill’s assailant was taken into custody by Nazi authorities, and was then deposited into a concentration camp,...
- Agricultural Labour-The Secret Jobs Done by Children-A look into the secretive world of hiring children as child labourers during the Great Depression. 1930 to 1938 New York, New York The Great Depression, Child Labour
Agricultural Labour-The Secret Jobs Done by Children Industrial child labour was a very important issue in New York and the Southern part of America during the 1930s, but a large number of children also worked in agricultural farms for wages. There was no means to end this and it was a largely unknown issue at the time (Feld, 2). Feld’s article described New York citizens in 1935 fighting for...
- Baer Clowns, Braddock Downs June 13, 1935 New York, New York Depression Entertainment, Cinderella Man, Baer, Braddock, Max Baer, James Braddock, Boxing
“From rags to riches. Strive and succeed. A man may be down but he’s never out.”[1] -John Kieran Max Baer taunted his opponent. A barrage of “boos” rained down from the audience, voicing their antipathy and intolerance for Baer’s lack of sportsmanship and detachment from the struggles of ordinary Americans. In response to the jeering onlookers, Baer began yelling and heckling members...
- Southern Trees August, 1930 to 1940 New York, New York, Marion, Indiana Strange Fruit, Abel Meeropol, Billie Holiday, Southern Women, Lynching, Racism
"Strange Fruit" is a haunting poem with verses that illustrate in vivid detail a dark facet of Southern life in the United States in the early-mid twentieth century. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South,The bulging eyes and the twisted...
- Don't Sit under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) January, 1939 to 1939 New York, New York Kay Kyser, the Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me Anyone else but me, anyone but me,no,no,no Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me 'Til I come marchin' home "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree(With Anyone Else But Me)" is a popular song that was made famous by Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters during World War II.The melody was written by Sam H. Stept. It was a version of the nineteenth-century...