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NEW YORK, New York in the 1880s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Henry Grady and His New South Speech
    date December 22, 1886map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Politics

    A man of great charisma and incredible oratory skills, Grady was a man with a goal. Henry W. Grady was born in Georgia and was throughout his career a spokesman, a proponent, and an ambassador for the South to the rest of the world. Growing up in the disenfranchised and embittered South, Grady had a vision of a reintegrated South that would take its place of glory and prominence in the newly restored...

  2. Women in 1888: Tariff Reformers and the Democratic Stronghold
    date July 31, 1888map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Government, Politics, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    The Mill Bill, with the support of women and the Democratic Party, hoped to reduce the tariff on wool, while simultaneously allowing for workers in the clothing industry to gain a better standard of living. According to the New York Times in July of 1888, there was "a vast army of men and women and a few children in New York engaged in making clothes." Historically, the clothes industry had undergone...