Episodes Nearest to June 2, 1948: 1 through 25 of 25
- An Act of Heroism
June 2, 1948
Orange, Florida
Susan Wesley, Rollins CollegeGreeting incoming Freshman at the start of the 1943-1944 year Miss Susan Wesley assisted in the girls unpacking, settling in, and adjusting to life away from home. A dorm mother to many girls who attended Rollins College Susan Wesley was an employee for the college a total of twenty-four years. The girls depended on Susan to help them through tough times, nurse them to health when sick as well as...
- Rerouting the Kissimmee: A Really Good Bad Idea
1948
Osceola, Florida
Kissimmee River, Army Corps of Engineers, Florda, ConservationFlorida has always been a huge swampland, with flooding, lakes, and rivers at every turn. It is why Walt Disney was able to acquire all the land necessary for Disney World at such low prices. Florida has also always had flooding issues. The Kissimmee River, prior to 1962, ran 103 miles from Lake Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee. [1] The problem with this was that the distance between the two lakes...
- Plane Crash near Los Gatos Canyon
January 28, 1948
Fresno, California
Plane Crash, DeporteesThirty-two people perished when a plane crashed near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California in Fresno County on the 28th of January 1948. The plane caught fire, starting in the left engine-drive fuel pump, 50 miles after its departure from Oakland California. The victims of the plane crash include four Americans, Franck attkinson the pilot, his wife Bobbi Attkinson who served...
- An Extraordinary Slave Preacher
1949
African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations, SlaveryIn 1849 Rev. William White wrote a narrative about African American Preachers. In it he tells the story of a black preacher known as "Uncle Jack." Slave traders kidnapped Jack from Africa when he was seven years out and sold him into slavery in Nottoway, Virginia. When he was forty he heard a Presbyterian Minister from Prince Edward County preach and became religious. White wrote that once Jack...
- Levitt & Sons Advertises New Housing Design
1949
Bucks, Pennsylvania
Housing, Economy, World War IIAfter receiving much criticism on his first mass-produced, low-cost housing design, the influential post-World War II real estate developer, William Levitt, introduced a new design in 1949. As advertisements for the new Rancher sprang up across Pennsylvania, many citizens, including veterans who would receive significant discounts, flocked to the Exhibit Center in the Levittown suburbs. The...
- Old Winter Park Road
January 1, 1950
Orange, Florida
Winter Park, FeminismPost World War II the Unites State’s history is shaped by activism. Starting with the African American civil rights movement, feminist and homosexuals found their voice and followed with their own activist movement. Sarah (Mrs. Joe K) Galloway’s story, “Joyce Kilmer Was Right!” is a small representation of this, particularly the feminist movement.
In her story Galloway tells how in...
- Breaking Barriers in Baseball
May 9, 1946 to April 16, 1947
New York, New York, Jefferson, Alabama
African American, Sports, BaseballThe difference between the North and South in the United States has been similar to that of night and day. During the period between the 1870s and the 1970s, the South is generally viewed by outsiders as a backward, ultra-racist region, and the North is seen as tolerant and progressive. Only a year apart, Birmingham, Alabama praises its successful Negro League Baseball team, while New York...
- Funeral for the founder of Los Altos, California
July 30, 1946
Santa Clara, California
Railroad, Urban Life/Boosterism, Paul Shoup, Sarah WinchesterThe development of Los Altos, California, is credited to Paul Shoup and the interurban railroad system. “The father of Los Altos”, died on July 30, 1946, in Los Angeles, California. The memorial service was held at the chapel of Stanford Memorial Church. Ira S. Lillick and fellow members of the board of trustees of Stanford University delivered the eulogies. His family was present, most notably...
- Operation Crossroads: Sailor Witnessed Atomic Bomb Test
July 1, 1946 to August 10, 1946
Camden, New Jersey
Science/Technology, WarAt 0800 hours on July 1, 1946, the United States conducted the Able Test in Bikini Lagoon, the first of three scheduled atomic bomb tests that were part of Operation Crossroads. Among those who witnessed the atomic bomb test was Joseph Patrick McShane Jr., a nineteen year old sailor from Oaklyn, New Jersey. From the deck of a transport ship, McShane watched the blast, which was “I think about...
- An Uncommon Sentiment
January 1, 1950 to December 31, 1950
Hamilton, Tennessee, Jefferson, Alabama
Ethics, Coal, Steel industry, Race Relations, Steel, Coal Industry, Discrimination, Racial Tension, SouthH. S. Chamberlain had a problem on his plate back in the mid-twentieth century. Everyone sought cheap labor in the steel and coal industries, but feared employing certain groups of people because of their behavior. Blacks treated with trepidation were the majority of workers in these industries. For the most part, blacks saw nothing but discrimination and fell under the watchful eyes of white...
- Work In An All-Black Community
January 1, 1946 to January 5, 1946
Orange, Florida
Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville, lifeZora Neale Hurston was an African American woman born in the first all African American town in America. She wrote countless accounts of different things she saw and experienced and this is very important because what she experienced was completely different than what most other African Americans experienced. In the short story “Turpentine” she accounts when she walks down to see where the...
- Greek Immigrants in U.S. find new start
January 1, 1946
Jefferson, Alabama
Greeks, birminghamStamatis Demoes was saddened to leave his Greek hometown behind. He would miss the people and the vineyards he worked in. But he had no choice because his town had been destroyed in an attack by Communist rebels. Demoes was part of the outnumbered troops that fought against them to the very end. After his town was virtually destroyed, Demoes and his family managed to come to Birmingham, AL with...
- Reactions to Intigration in Baseball
October 25, 1945
New York, New York
Baseball, Segregation, Rickey Branch, Jackie Robinson, Reactions to IntigrationIn the New York Times article entitled, “Rickey Takes Slap at Negro Leagues”, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers faced a hailstorm of critics as he announced his decision to sign Jackie Robinson to the previously all white Brooklyn Dodgers farm team. Facing the press, he dispelled the rumors that he had been forced into making the deal, that the Negro leagues had...
- Secondary Education in Robeson County in 1945
May 15, 1945
Robeson, North Carolina
Education, Pembroke State College, UNCP“Thursday May 17, has been set as Senior Day, when high-school senior students of Robeson County are invited to visit the college, see its various activities and mingle socially with its students and faculty,” reports the May 15, 1945, issue of The Robesonian. As the article described, the students had a full day planned for them at Pembroke State College, including tours of many...
- Advancements In the Women's Rights Movement
October 29, 1951
Worcester, Massachusetts
Women, Women's Rights, suffrageOver one thousand women gathered in Worchester, Massachusetts, for a Women's Rights Convention in October 1851. "Wit, humor, truth, poetry, absurdity, and misdemeanor madness, were all component parts of the proceedings and speeches," wrote a journalist for the Daily Alabama Journal. Among the speakers were E. Oakes Smith, Abby Kelly Foster, and Lucretia Mott. The journalist observed...
- Criticism of Japanese Internment
January 5, 1944
San Mateo, California
japanese internment camps, World War II, JapaneseIn a letter to the editor of the Los Altos News, Samuel B. Herbert argued against the rhetoric of a Mr. Spenser stating that Japanese people, even citizens, should be exiled from the country and deported back to Japan following the end of the war. Herbert made several valid points for why he disagreed with Mr. Spenser’s statements. Firstly, there were many American born Japanese who were...
- "US Declared Able to Wage Cold War"
November 10, 1952
New York, New York
Cold War, Red ScareHow ready was the United States ready for the Cold War? On November 10, 1952, an article was printed in the New York Times. Its purpose was to cover a dinner forum at the New School for Social Research at 66 West Twelfth Street, Manhattan, New York to discuss the need for the continuance of the newly coined “Cold War,” as well as the economic and social ramifications of the war that would...
- Esquire v. Walker: The Varga girl trial
October 1, 1943 to November 29, 1943
Dist Columbia, District of Columbia
Law, Censorship, Pin-up, VargaThis trial has everyone paying attention. It is no wonder; the right to display pin-up art in men’s magazines is on trial. Post Master General Walker is in Supreme Court against Arnold Gingrich and various brilliant lawyers of Esquire. The prosecutor Walker assembles four assistant post masters to prove that Esquire’s Varga pin-ups “had gone too far in exploiting the...
- Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway
January 20, 1953
Clarendon, South Carolina
African-Americans, Desegregation, Transportation, Segregation, Supreme Court, Children, Public Schools, Black History, Black Schools, South Carolina, Buses“W.H. Ridgeway, the 16-year-old driver of the white bus, sobbed in his hospital bed and told his mother over and over how sorry he was the wreck had happened”
The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, reported this pitiful scene on January 21st, 1953, under the front-page headline, “Clarendon School Bus Crash Kills 2”. The State ran no pictures of the crash, but the...
- Bus Driver, Age 18, Killed in Head-On Collision At Work
January 20, 1953
Clarendon, South Carolina
Clarendon County, workplace safety, highway safety, Buses, African-Americans, South CarolinaThe certificate kept by the Clarendon Memorial Hospital records the death of Willie Lemon, an 18-year-old bus driver involved in a head-on collision on the highway near Jordan, South Carolina, on January 20, 1953. Vital information is recorded on Lemon. He was occupied as a school bus driver. He is listed as an unmarried, colored male from Manning, South Carolina, with no social security number.
His...
- "Why They Become Communists" By Elizabeth Janeway
June 14, 1953
New York, New York
Red Scare, Cold WarWhat was the seductive and driving force of communism? An article published in the New York Times on June 14, 1953 sought to answer this question. Elizabeth Janeway’s “Why They Become Communists: Americans seeking an effective answer to communism’s internal danger must first be aware of its influence,” was the entire title of the article and resolved to serve as an indicator as to why and...
- Religious Recognition for Greeks in the U.S.
August 24, 1953
Jefferson, Alabama
Greeks, ReligionIn 1953, Greeks in the U.S. wanted to have their Greek Orthodox faith recognized. The Greek Orthodox Youth of America, GOYA, a Greek organization, made attempts and held drives to have their religion be included in the major faiths of the U.S. At the time, only the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths were recognized as faiths in the U.S. The chairman of GOYA gathered with other members of the...
- Spencers Supports, Supporting Working Women
February, 1943
New York, New York
corsets, fashion, working womenThe strong, modern women of the 1940's no longer desired the wasp waist corsets of previous generations. The new breed of woman wanted practicality. Hence, the advertisements of the time did not dwell heavily on waist reduction or social expectations, rather, the emphasis focused more on health issues. An example from Ladies Home Journal published in the February 1943 issue for Spencer Supports...
- A Daughter Learns of Anti-Semitism and Heroism in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
November, 1942 to May, 1943
Africa, Outside US
Anti-Semitism, historical memory, Holocaust, TunisiaOver 70 years ago, Faiza Abdul-Wahab’s father, Khaled, rescued several Jewish families from German troops occupying the town of Mahdia, Tunisia. After the occupation commenced in November 1942, Nazi and Vichy leaders in Tunisia enacted a set of anti-Semitic laws similar to those in Europe. According to the sources found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archive, these...
- Anti-Semitic Laws and Lawbreakers in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
November, 1942 to May, 1943
Africa, Outside US
Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Tunisia, historical memory, AfricaOn November 23, 1942, German soldiers arrested prominent Jewish leaders across Tunisia. When Moises Burgel, the President of the Tunisian Jewish community, was arrested, it marked the beginning of the Holocaust in North Africa. By the end of November, Nazi Germany had occupied all of Tunisia and enacted anti-Semitic laws in addition to the Vichy laws already in place. According to the sources found...