Episodes Nearest to November 1, 1913 to November 30, 1913: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The FDR and Lucy Mercer Affair
    date November, 1913 to 1913map Albany, New Yorktags The Great Depression, Affair, FDR, Lucy Mercer

    Franklin D. Roosevelt will forever be remembered for his public contribution to our nation during the Great Depression years. However, the confidence FDR exuded publically was also used in a more private nature. Late in 1913 Lucy Mercer was hired by Eleanor Roosevelt to act as a social secretary and as such she managed any of the paperwork and social affairs of Eleanor. When FDR first saw Lucy,...

  2. The Beverly Beacon: Rise of Women's Voice in Media Publications
    date November 1, 1913map Essex, Massachusettstags Women, Politics, women's rights, Media

         In New England at the turn of the twentieth century women took pen to paper to address the struggles among women in the fight for equality. The Beverly Beacon was the first all women published newspaper. Emerging in the early 1900s, it expressed women's opinions about social, economic, and political aspects of life in the rural New England town of Beverly Massachusetts. The women...

  3. Immigrants Who Couldn’t Get on The Train
    date 1914map Cook, Illinoistags Migration/Transportation, Railroad

    In 1914, Stephen Graham, a traveler from Britain, was riding a train towards Chicago. Upon arriving at the station, he was comparing the American rates with the Russian rates and Great Britain rates: “The cost of working is more in America than in Russia, and the trains are twice as fast; but that is not enough to set off against the enormous differences in fares. . . It is absurd to compare the...

  4. America’s Health Threat - The Industrial Revolution
    date 1914map Elkhart, Indianatags Farm Labor, Health, Pollution

    In 1914, Stephen Graham, a traveler from Britain, was tramping along the border of Northern Ohio and Southern Michigan, from Toledo to Angola, Indiana. He was entering the West, where fields were wide and square and roads were straight and flat. One evening, he stopped and took a rest at a farm, where he noticed that there was no labor but just the family working in the field. He noted in his journal,...

  5. With poor immigrants to America
    date 1914map New York, New Yorktags European immigrants, America in 19th Century., Immigrants

    In 1914, Stephen Graham, an European, wrote a book describing his first journey in the United States and why he was so impressed. First, he wrote about why he came to U.S., “I came to America to see men and women and not simply bricks and mortar, to understand a national life rather than to moan over sooty cities and industrial wildernesses. Hundreds of thousands of healthy Europeans passed annually...

  6. How the United States Differentiated Itself From England
    date 1914map New York, New Yorktags Differences, Immigrants

    What were people truly gaining from venturing to America? This is what many like the writer below quested to experience and understand.  Stephen Graham, a British traveller, walked about New York City and stopped to converse with an American man in a club. The man opened Graham’s eyes to the American mentality when Graham asked if it was embarrassing to take such great risks such as death and...

  7. The New York Milk Committee Preaches Pure Milk by Moving Pictures
    date March 24, 1913map New York, New Yorktags Health/Death, Women, Progressive Reformers, Urban Society, Food Regulation

    Urban infants in the 1840s had only a 50 percent chance of living to the age of five. Progressive reformers believed that high infant mortality was linked to adulterated and infectious milk, a concern that remained even after New York passed regulation laws. On March 25, 1913, the Committee of Women's Organizations of the New York Milk Committee held a meeting to educate mothers living in the...

  8. The March for Freedom
    date March 3, 1913map Frederick, Virginiatags Women, Women's Rights

    The day was March 3, 1913 in Washington D.C., many women at the time have wanted equal rights, that they were not receiving, so many important women icons decided to act upon their beliefs. The women gathered 5,000 supporters, such as Mrs. Taft. She and other supporters walked down Pennsylvania Avenue in hopes of rallying the crowd and getting as many supporters as possible. The women used decorated...

  9. Land for African American Schools
    date July 4, 1912map New Hanover, North Carolinatags Education, african americans

    “After a lengthy and at times acrimonious debate, the House today passed a bill conveying to the board of education of New Hanover County, N.C., thirty-four acres of land in the city of Wilmington for the erection of an industrial school for Negroes,” reported the Raleigh News and Observer. African Americans in the early twentieth century faced poverty, joblessness, poor housing, unequal...

  10. Industrial competition between Chicago and Pittsburg
    date 1915map Cook, Illinoistags Pittsburg, Chicago, Steel and Iron Industry, Economy

    Internal competition in a country can be a strong force for development and improvements in some industries.  This “American versus American” phenomenon appeared in many industries in the US. In the early twentieth century, the United States was still developing. At that time, many industries were still in their early stage  -- the car industry and aviation industry, for example. Because these...

  11. The Lynching of Leo Frank
    date August 17, 1915map Cobb, Georgiatags Anti-Semitism, Crime/Violence, Lynching

    On August 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman awoke to 25 armed men storming into the jail he was being held at in Milledgeville, Georgia. Despite faulty and clear mishandling of evidence, as well as forced confessions from many witnesses, Frank was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan, a young girl that was employed in his factory. However, influenced...

  12. At the Hands of “los diablos tejanos”
    date September, 1915map Hidalgo, Texastags Mexican-American, Texas Rangers, Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, Lynching, Protocol of Queretaro, Borderlands, General Frederick Funston, Texas-Mexico border

    During the first week of September in 1915, Texas Rangers prowled searching for Mexican bandits in Cuevitas, Texas.  An article in the Boston Daily Globe, reported that a Ranger called his fellow companions to come to a halt.  He spotted a group of Mexican men around a campfire and descended from his horse towards them.  The Rangers caught the riders by surprise and quickly placed them...

  13. Lumbee Education in Segregated North Carolina
    date September 5, 1911map Robeson, North Carolinatags Normal school, Lumbee, Segregation, Indians

    “The State is in earnest in her effort to educate all of her children” declared H. L. Edens on September 5, 1911. The remark was made in an announcement that declared the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, which would later become the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had been accepted “as a State institution.”

    In a time in which the South was entrenched deeply in the...

  14. Middle-Class Blacks on Lynching
    date August 31, 1911map New Hanover, North Carolinatags middle-class, Lynching, african americans

    “The key to success for our race depends not on uprising and quarrels, but on the obedience to law and order.” Doctor W.M. Alexander echoed these words throughout a congregation of 500 prominent African American men at a conference in Wilmington. During the discussions on lynching and the crime rate among African Americans, Alexander argued to his constituents that submission to law was the...

  15. Banner Mine Tragedy
    date April 8, 1911map Jefferson, Alabamatags banner mine, Convict Labor

     

    On April 8, 1911 the Banner Mine ignited killing 128 convict laborers.  The actual cause of death was attributed to blackdamp asphyxiation.  Blackdamp is a mixture of unbreathable poisonous gases which displaces oxygen.  "Clark McCormick, accompanied by former miner J.R. Baird, went into the mine.  Their first discovery was less than reassuring.  Not far from the mine entrance...

  16. 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks
    date 1916map Atlantic, New Jerseytags Shark Attack, 1916, Jersey Shore, New Jersey

    During the summer of 1916, five people were injured by a Great White Shark along the Jersey Shore area of New Jersey. Four of the victims were bitten while swimming in areas that were not considered to be a hotspot for sharks, and the other victim was bitten while trying to rescue another person. At first, many people had no idea what type of animal could have attacked these people, and journalists...

  17. Triangle Factory Fire
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Immigration, historical memory

    The immigrant women working in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory called it a "prison." Its safety and working conditions were abysmally low, but these conditions were not unique: New York was an epicenter for industrialization, containing thousands of unsafe factories filled with recent immigrants. In 1909, many factory workers organized a strike to protest unsafe conditions, and most factories met their...

  18. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Bureau of Fire Prevention, New York City 1900s

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911

    By: Louis Daleandro


    Within fifteen minutes, a massive fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City in 1911.  Dubbed a model of modern efficiency, the Triangle factory was large in scale as were the specially designed bins that held hundreds of pounds of scrap cotton and tissue paper.   The blaze that ensued...

  19. The Catastrophic Triangle Factory Fire: A Catalyst for Progressive Reform
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Catastrophic event, Labor Reform, Progressive Era

    The dreadful sounds of death hit the ground as smoke poured from the ten-story building.  William Shepherd, journalist for Milwaukee Journal, describes moment by moment the horrible events he witnessed on that tragic day in Washington Square, New York when fire engulfed the factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.  It was Saturday, March 25, 1911 just around 4:30 PM, closing time, when fire...

  20. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags factory fire, Triangle Fire

    On March 26, 1911, the New York Times reported on a disastrous fire in a Manhattan building.  According to the article, the previous day, a fire had broken out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Asch Building located near Washington Square in Manhattan.  Although the building had been declared fireproof, contents within the buildings 8th, 9th, and 10th...

  21. The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
    date September 1, 1916map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Progressive Reformers, Lewis Hine, Keating-Owen Act, Child Labor

    Congress drafted the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 as a means to regulate youth labor.  This Act was named for its sponsors, Democratic Representatives Edward Keating and Robert Latham Owen.  The Act prohibited the shipment or delivery for shipment for interstate or foreign sale of any goods or services that were produced by laborers under the age of 14 in a factory, shop or cannery...

  22. Frederick A. Blossom resigns post as Director of the National Birth Control League
    date December 8, 1916map Allegheny, Pennsylvaniatags birth control, Frederick A. Blossom, Birth Control Movement, Margaret Sanger, Virginia T. Heidelberg, NBCL

    Conflict remained high between Frederick A. Blossom, a socialist party member from Cleveland, and the members of the Executive Committee of the National Birth Control League. The Executive Committee of this organization advocated the removal of birth control from “the category of obscene materials and information”. The open bill versus the doctors-only bill was the contested topic up for debate. ...

  23. African-American Pastors Develop the ‘Black Temperance Movement’
    date August 14, 1910map Jefferson, Alabamatags Church/Religious-Activity, Temperance Movement, Prohibition, african americans, Race Relations

    A flyer stating “Colored Citizens Mass Meeting” describes the movement of African-American pastors to change the view of the “Negro Race.”. The flyer describes the place and time that congregations would meet and the objectives of the meeting. The meeting was called in an attempt to “protest against colored women visiting barrooms and barroom premises [and] also against children visiting...

  24. Patriotism or Equal Rights: The Suffragist’s Dichotomy during World War I
    date February 26, 1917map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Women, women's rights, suffrage, World War I

    The Great War in Europe had already lasted much longer than anticipated by the early months of 1917. Despite a long-standing precedent of neutrality in the face of foreign conflict, the United States steeled itself for the possibility of war. On February 26, 1917, the New York Times ran an article entitled "Suffragist Pledge Aid to the Nation" covering the National American Woman Suffrage...

  25. The Brute vs. the Uncle Tom: Fighting for American Respect
    date July 4, 1910map New York, New York, Washoe, Nevadatags African American, Sports, Boxing

         Two men stand between the ropes among a crowd of blood thirsty white faces. In the United States, a black man physically assaulting a white man would have resulted in a lynching; however, when colorful trunks and padded gloves are added to the skirmish, the event becomes a spectacle. 

         Late Victorian culture identified the powerful, large male body of the heavyweight prizefighter...