Birmingham, Alabama was referred to as: "the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States” by Martin Luther King, Jr. It was also given the name “Bombingham” due to the fifty unsolved racially charged bombings between 1945 and 1962. These bombings were directed towards the homes of African American leaders, integrated neighborhoods, and meetings for the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps...
On February 14, 1962, Jackie Kennedy gave her famous White House Tour on for CBS Television. Charles Collingwood of CBS guided the hour-long tour. Jackie represented a new, relaxed style of modernity and femininity. She demonstrated impressive knowledge of history by speaking about what events past presidents held in each room. In the Green Room Jackie noted, “this used to be the dining room,...
Bernice Daffron, a black resident of St. Clair County, Alabama, did not understand why the country was suddenly so concerned with the issue of voter registration among blacks. Daffron stated in an editorial printed in The Birmingham News that she had “always been encouraged to vote,” and that this was the case “in many other counties.” According to Daffron, the national attention...
“The new presidents wife has a look that’s all her own, yet it’s the look that’s already being copied rapidly by American women,” the Los Angeles Times noted when First Lady Jackie Kennedy blew up the fashion world during her husband's presidency. In the early 1960s, throughout towns and cities in America, Jackie created a frenzy in the media with her impeccable style. Newspapers...
On August 06, 1964, The New York Times reported an expression of “grief and hope” by Andrew Goodman’s family to the public at a news conference. Andrew Goodman, the dead civil rights worker killed near Philadelphia, Mississippi, had been working on a voter registration drive in Meridan, Mississippi. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman, ensured the public their pain, although...
“I mean what law can you pass to do anything about police power in the community of Birmingham? There is nothing we can do. The fact of the matter is that Birmingham is in worse shape than any other city in the United States and it’s been that way for a year and a half.” John F. Kennedy gave this statement on May 4, 1963 to twenty members of the organization, Americans...
Mississippi Burning
Murder is what it all boiled down to. In the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, three civil rights workers were viciously slaughtered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film depicting the events of the heinous crime.
In order to fully understand the weight...
A post-operative patient in 1907 did not have the luxury of sitting upright in bed or draining his wounds correctly. He ran the risk of severe infection due to constant reclining and a lack of movement. But by 1909, however, Dr. Willis D. Gatch had revolutionized the hospital bed for post-operative care. Dr. Gatch was a professor, physician, surgeon, Dean, and the inventor of “the adjustable bed...
The Voice of Orlando Negro Chamber of Commerce: Business Directory 1957 includes a long list of African-American establishments, from Beauty Salons to Churches, in the Orlando area. One entry, “The New Jones High School”, contains information on Jones High School after its recent renovation in May 1952[1]. The entry on Jones High School grants a valuable insight into the funding, resources,...
In 1963, the Detroit City Plan Commission prepared an informational bulletin to provide the public with “a ready reference to Detroit’s program of redevelopment”, and an explanation of their large aims to remove blighted areas from the city and replace them with “sound [and] logical development”. It first started with a brief history of urban renewal in Detroit, classifying urban renewal...