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Episodes tagged "Race Relations": 1 through 10 of 27

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  1. Native American Education Improves Under U.S. Government
    date 1976map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Education, Native-Americans

    The Third Annual Report to the Congress of the United States outlined the needs, concerns, funding, and progresses of the Indian educational system set forth by the government. The National Advisory Council on Indian Education created this report in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The president of the United States appointed this council in order to assist the 570 native groups affected by the regulations...

  2. Three Tribes Confederate for Peace
    date October 21, 1867map SHAWNEE, Kansastags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Civil Rights, Native-Americans

    The chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian tribes met with the United States commissioners, such as Nathaniel G. Taylor and William S. Harney, in Kansas to seal their tribes’ fate in America on October 21, 1867. The United States government referred to the Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache as a peace treaty, but in reality it forced the tribes to conform to the wills...

  3. 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...

  4. First Sitting President to Mention Civil Rights in the South
    date October 26, 1921map Jefferson, Alabamatags Race Relations, african americans

    On October 26, 1921 President Warren G. Harding visited Birmingham, Alabama.  The Magic City was celebrating its semi centennial - fifty years of being a city in the New South. It was a city without a typical Southern past.  Founded in 1871, Birmingham was a model city at this time – railroads, blast furnaces and steel mills marked its landscape.  It was a bustling industrial giant; and, it was...

  5. An Alabama Minister Fights for Temperance By Using Race
    date January 1, 1900 to January 1, 1919map Montgomery, Alabamatags Prohibition, Race Relations, Temperance Movement, african americans

    In the early decades of the 20th century the Alabama Anti-Saloon League published a brief flyer outlining the group’s proposals. The flyer is titled “The Alabama Anti-Saloon League” and outlines four goals: “First- To federate the Churches, Sunday Schools, Temperance Societies and other moral forces of the State in a conservative, persistent, and determined movement against the saloon; “Second-...

  6. African Americans and Southern Labor Unions
    date 1967map Jefferson, Alabamatags Labor Unions, Race Relations, Civil Rights, african americans

    “The union wasn’t right by us,” was how James Manley summed up his experiences as an African American union member during an interview conducted by the Sloss Furnace Association. In 1984 Manley sat down in an interview with the goal of recording his thoughts on his career at Sloss Furnaces, a pig-iron producing blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama. Manley spoke of being laid off in 1967 for no...

  7. Eugene “Bull” Connor Writes Correspondence on the Race Question
    date June 6, 1923 to December 31, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Transportation, Race Relations, Civil Rights

    With racial tensions rising in Birmingham, there was only one thing to do: ensure the separation of the races. This was what Eugene “Bull” Connor, Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety during the 1940s, saw as the only option to ensure public peace. This separation of the races included the segregation of Birmingham’s streetcars. In a letter dated June 29, 1944 to Mr. C. L. Harris of Birmingham’s...

  8. Second Lieutenant Hurst Fears Communist Invasion
    date October 19, 1932map Montgomery, Alabamatags Race Relations, Government, Crime/Violence, african americans

    The Communist Party was infiltrating Birmingham, Alabama and the National Guard was beginning to worry. On October 19, 1932, Second Lieutenant Ralph Hurst wrote to his commanding officer Brigadier General J.C. Parsons about the “Communist Agitation” in Birmingham. The International Labor Defense had recently moved its Southern headquarters to Birmingham and there had been trouble ever since. According...

  9. Soldier Resists Segregation on Birmingham Streetcar
    date June 6, 1923 to June 6, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Race Relations, Civil Rights, African-Americans, Transportation

    During World War II , whites and blacks had sacrificed for their country; yet, only the whites who returned found themselves recipients of respect. Around 9:40pm on June 6, 1943 a “negro” soldier boarded a streetcar in Birmingham, Alabama on the North Birmingham Line. Instead of moving to the back of the car, he chose to stand in the white section. White passengers began to complain and the conductor...

  10. Incident of Racial Tension Reported on Birmingham’s East Lake Line
    date June 6, 1923 to June 21, 1943map Jefferson, Alabamatags Civil Rights, African American, Race Relations, Transportation

    On a hot midafternoon on June 21, 1943, a streetcar filled with passengers eased along the East Lake Line in Birmingham, Alabama. When it reached its next stop no one got off, but one white man and two white women attempted to board the already packed car. The conductor, claiming there was standing room in the “negro” section, told some “negro” passengers who were standing near the entrance...

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