Episodes Nearest to November 18, 1971 to November 20, 1971: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Birmingham's Air Pollution Crisis and Federal Intervention
    date November 18, 1971 to November 20, 1971map Jefferson, Alabamatags Clean Air Act, Air Pollution, NEPA, EPA, Environmentalism, Birmingham, Alabama

    Birmingham’s pollution trouble had long been a recurring theme. For years, many had simply lived with the pollution as an everyday part of life. However, in 1971 the County Health Department issued pollution alerts on two separate occasions with daily particulate counts well above national averages. These measurements collected over separate areas of the city could not be ignored any further as...


  2. date August 13, 1971map Harris, Texas, San Francisco, California, Sedgwick, Kansas, Oakland, Michigantags african americans, Law, Education

    In 1971, schools attempting to overcome segregation faced fierce opposition in the North. The year before the South passed the North in integration of schools and the North’s integration record continued to decline in the 1960s. The question facing Americans was whether the busing plans would overcome the opposition. Some cities moved forward with the forced integration via busing, but other...

  3. John Kerry Denounces the War in Vietnam
    date April 23, 1971map Washington, Virginiatags Diplomacy/International, Politics, War

     

    Speaking to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, former Army Captain John Kerry explained the atrocities and falsehoods that the soldiers on the ground were forced to carry out while serving in the Vietnam War from 1966-1970.  He made it clear that the actions of the United States government and military leaders should not vanish into thin air.

    According to...

  4. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Examined by HEW
    date July 26, 1972map Madison, Illinoistags African-Americans, Health/Death, Medicine, Tuskegee, Syphilis, Study

    On July 26, 1972 The Alton Evening Telegraph, a newspaper in Alton, Illinois, released an article discussing The Department of Health Education and Welfare's investigation of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Although the experiment was conducted in Alabama, the news was a national story. Jean Heller, the author of the article, found this study so disturbing that she decided to...

  5. The Fight of Ultimate Rivals
    date March 8, 1971map New York, New Yorktags Civil Rights, Boxing

    The night of March 8, 1971 is one that will never be forgotten in sports history. This was the night of an international sports spectacle. This was the night that Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier attempted to settle the controversy over the world heavyweight boxing championship at Madison Square Garden. Never before had a boxing match meant so much, cost so much, viewed so much, or edged out the My...

  6. Vietnam Veteran Testifies in Winter Soldier Investigations
    date January 31, 1971map Wayne, Michigantags Diplomacy/International, Politics, War

    On returning home from Vietnam, some veterans were asked to testify before Congressional committees regarding their actions during the war. Rusty Sachs, a member of the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 362, testified before Congress and explained his recollection of destroying villages and killing innocent civilians. Approximately twenty other soldiers testified from various branches of the armed...

  7. The Game That Ended Segregation in Sports
    date September 12, 1970map Jefferson, Alabamatags football, Segregation

     

    On September 12, 1970 University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant played the University of Southern California at Legion Field in Birmingham Alabama. The Trojans ran up and down the field on that hot September night. The final score was USC 42, Alabama 21. The Trojans dominated the game rushing on the ground for 485 rushing yards to Alabama's 32. This demanding win for...

  8. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Still Movin' and Groovin'
    date 1970map Orleans, Louisianatags 10th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orelans

    Adam Mims

    Dr. Benson

    History 321-Urban America

    The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Still Movin' and Groovin'

    In the beginning of 1970, the city of New Orleans and the music industry as a whole would be drastically changed in a way that would bolster its prominence like no other. This change would soon come to existence as being called the...

  9. The Rebirth of Zora
    date 1970map Orange, Floridatags From Sun to Sun, Female Authors


    The collaboration between Zora Hurston and the Directors of The Museum in folklore entitled “From Sun to Sun” was revolutionary for both the museum and for the African American population at the time. The Museum was known at the time at Rollins to be “a house for the arts”. The theatre worked together with Hurston to present a series of one act plays, musical...

  10. Alma College Men's Soccer
    date 1970map Gratiot, Michigantags Soccer, College Sports

    Men’s soccer began as a club team in 1970. Soccer became a varsity sport for the 1975-1976 season after Coach Beaumont successfully argued that if Alma College wanted to promote its connection to Scotland, the College should not ignore Scotland’s national sport.

    Although instrumental to the foundation of men’s soccer, Beaumont only coached for the first season. The most successful coach...

  11. Spatial History Engine: Hamilton Hotel
    date 1970map Orange, Floridatags Winter Park, Florida, Orlando, Hamilton Hotel

    Built in the 1920’s, the Hamilton Hotel was built as more modest accommodations than the only other hotel in town. The other hotel, the Seminole Hotel, boasted of visitors of such caliber as Henry Flagler, William Rockefeller, and even United States President Grover Cleveland. The Hamilton Hotel was the first in Winter Park to have a bathroom in each room;  while it may seem strange to not have...

  12. The “Me” Generation: How Shirley Chisholm, Harvey Milk and the Weathermen Fought Against the 1970's Fantasy of Perfection
    date 1970map District of Columbia, District of Columbia, San Francisco, Californiatags Homosexuality, African-Americans, Politics, Anti War, Vietnam War, Terrorism

    The 1970's became fertile ground for public outrage and violence against the American establishment due to national economic stress, assassinations of public figures, the Vietnam War, and other political scandals. By the 70's it seemed to a significant amount of Americans, that what the government wanted to portray and what they were realistically taking care of were two very different truths. What...

  13. Bayard Rustin and Israeli Air Support
    date June 28, 1970map New York, New Yorktags Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights, Pacifism

    In 1970 Bayard Rustin gathered many civil rights leaders and black public officials in support of an appeal to Washington. This appeal pushed for the U.S. government to supply Israel with fighter jets for protective purposes. Their appeal, in the form of a full-page ad in the New York Times, was sponsored by the A. Philip Randolph Institute of which...

  14. Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793.
    date August 3, 1973 to October 28, 1973map Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniatags Thomas Jefferson, epidemic, Yellow Fever, Benjamin Rush

    In 1793, Philadelphia was the site of the most fearsome epidemic to strike the young nation. By July, the city's inhabitants were remarking on the extraordinary number of flies and mosquitoes that swarmed around the dock area. Caribbean refugees brought Yellow Fever. In one epidemic alone, 5,000 residents — nearly one-tenth of the population — perished. Hardly a family was untouched. Many people...

  15. Apollo Mission Puts Neil Armstrong on the Moon
    date July 20, 1969map Brevard, Floridatags Cold War, Science/Technology

                Neil Armstrong gained world-wide fame as he stepped off of the Apollo 11’s lunar module and became the first human to set foot on the moon. Completing the awe-inspiring moment he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Earlier that day, Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the Eagle lunar module pilot, had undocked from the command...

  16. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Walk on the Moon
    date July 16, 1969 to July 21, 1969map Harris, Texastags Science/Technology, Moon, Apollo 11

     

    On July 16, 1969, Americans Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins sat atop a Saturn V rocket and were blasted away from the surface of the Earth on a journey across 300,000 kilometers to land and walk on the Moon.  The choice of which astronaut would step on the lunar surface first came almost by chance- because Armstrong was the Commander of the flight, his seat...

  17. Old Main: 1886-1969
    date March 9, 1969map Gratiot, Michigantags Buildings - Old Main, Alma College

    Old Main was one of most important buildings on Alma College’s campus in 1969. This building had housed many departments and classrooms, since the College’s opening day. In the first twenty-five years of Alma College, there were only five buildings on campus: Folsom Hall (gymnasium and chemistry), the library, Hood (museum), Old Main (classrooms and offices) and Pioneer Hall (dormitory).

    Old...

  18. Sexist Laws: Are Prostituion Laws Sexist?
    date August 30, 1974map Jefferson, Alabamatags Seventies, Birmingham, Alabama, Women, prostitution laws

    In 1974, the city of Birmingham, Alabama prostitution ordinance survived the first challenge in court. A federal judge denied a request from a Foxy Entertainment employee who called the ordinance unconstitutional. A woman, Lynn Floyd, is appealing her prostitution conviction. Floyd’s suit says that the ordinance is unconstitutional because it seems to only apply to women.

    Linda LeMoncheck...


  19. date October 5, 1974map Suffolk, Massachusettstags african americans, Race Relations, Education

    South Bostonians, mostly Irish-Americans, felt frustrated and angry after just three weeks of forced busing in 1974 according to the New York Times. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garity ordered busing because he felt that “the local school authorities operated a deliberately segregated system.” During the three weeks school was open, there had already been altercations, including “a lunch-tray...

  20. "More Negroes Being Hired"
    date October 2, 1968map Wake, North Carolinatags Black Labor, African American jobs

    The North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, according to the Rockingham Daily Journal, indicate that by 1968, more African Americans were finding jobs in North Carolina State Government than ever before. The jobs of interest were in education, health, or hospitals, while fields not associated with education, health, or hospitals were still filled with white employees.  A survey was preformed...

  21. State Begins to Hire More Black Workers
    date October 2, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags african americans, employment

    On October 2, 1968, the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council submitted a survey to Raleigh demonstrating that blacks were being hired for more positions within the state government. That rise came over the previous two years. There were still state agencies that are all white, but those agencies did not include education, health or hospitals. “The study showed that 38 percent of the blacks employed...

  22. Birth Control
    date August 18, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags birth control, Cold War, Women

    In the Fayetteville Observer on Sunday August 18, 1968, the paper noted that a Russian man came up to a Westerner and asked him for some birth control pills for his wife.  Normally, a man would ask for whisky or chewing gum, but this time it was different, and the request took the Westerner by surprise.  The reason he asked for birth control pills was because there was a housing shortage...

  23. Student Demonstrations at Fayetteville State University
    date April, 1968 to 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Education, Protest

    The Raleigh Observer reported that by April 1968 the students at Fayetteville State University were outraged due to the lack luster condition of their campus. A small group of students seized control of the administration building and phone systems on Thursday. The students were all male upperclassmen. Dr. Jones, the college president was the first to discover the students and speak with...

  24. Making Money
    date June 24, 1975map Jefferson, Alabamatags Seventies, Birmingham, Alabama, Prostitution

    Prostitution in Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding areas was bad in the seventies. It was so bad that in June of 1975 the city of Homewood passed a new ordinance that reduced the number of hours prostitutes were allowed to be on the street. The week before the ordinance was passed, three prostitutes were arrested for working out of a motel. Mayor Bob Waldrop said that Homewood was working to...

  25. Bill Christofferson, a Vietnam Veteran, Experiences Forty Years of Coming Home
    date February, 1968 to 1968map Milwaukee, Wisconsintags War, Diplomacy/International

    The Vietnam War was one of the most traumatic events in postwar American history. At its peak, the United States had 543,400 soldiers stationed in Vietnam and as a whole, the United States sent over three million soldiers to Vietnam. One of these veterans of the Vietnam War was Bill Christofferson, who was a combat correspondent who returned from active duty in 1968. However, like many other Vietnam...