In the early 1900s, child labor was common. Lewis Hine dedicated himself to photographing children at work around the country. As a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, he believed that his images would draw attention to the plight of children and lead Americans to press for an end to child labor. The National Child Labor Committee was composed of politicians and citizens who were...
Pollution was once held to be a sign of urban success. Smoke stacks were seen as technologically advanced; heavy industry signified the possibility of jobs. This paradigm pervaded Detroit in the early 20th century, and the people of Hamtramck, an independent township in the center of the city, were overjoyed when they were hit by an industrial boom. The sentiments of the people...
When Americans think of Chinatown, they rarely associate it with New Orleans, but at the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the only southern city with a population of Chinese immigrants significant enough to constitute a Chinatown. Like other immigrants in America, the Chinese in New Orleans had to balance the ongoing connections and relationships back home with the opportunities presented...
The image of a mother, father, and their three young children huddled around a small table in a dimly lit, overcrowded tenement tediously sewing garments into the early hours of the morning is not unique to the photographs captured by Lewis Hine. Hine's work often demonstrated the dignity of the worker, but reflected the purposes of those who hired him. Hines was surrounded by and influenced...
Edward P. Hooker is the chairman of the State Congregational Association in Florida. He organises the churches help towards the Seminoles. He helps provide for the Seminole Indians educationally and religiously. Edward P. Hooker is a Christian but unlike many white southerners he is open to many other religions and does not force Christianity upon the Indians who get help from his missionaries....
Born in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston became one of the greatest-known black female authors of all time. Zora once said:
"I was born in a Negro town. I do not mean by that the black backside of an average town. Eatonville, Florida is, and was at the time of my birth, a pure Negro town-charter, mayor, council, town marshal and all. It was not the first...
During the turn of the 20th century, a curious artifact began to emerge on the publication scene, a document known as an advertising cookbook. These were published by any number of manufactures and were meant to highlight the specific uses of their product in everyday cooking. “Recipes for Dainty Dishes: Culinary, Toilet and Medicinal Hints”, published in 1910 by the California...
Andrew Moore Sheffield was a woman born with a man’s name. Her father, James Sheffield was a former slaveholder and one of the Alabamian men who signed the state’s ordinance of secession before the time of America’s civil war. James Sheffield, along with his son who was a probate judge at the time, had long believed Andrew was insane, and one day in 1890, when the opportunity presented...
During the early 20th century Lebanon was facing extreme religious persecution. At that time half of the Lebanese community in Lebanon were Christians. The Turks persecuted these Christian horrifically, even gathering several into churches and then setting the church on fire. They would also cut the Christians’ hands off, just because they were not Muslim. This led to many Lebanese...
In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams reflected that after twenty years, Hull-House held true to its charter: “To provide a center for the higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.” However, she realized some changes had taken place at Hull-House. ...