During the Great Migration, a period between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the South. Huge numbers moved northeast and reported discrimination and segregation similar to what they had experienced in the South. As late as the 1940s, it was still possible to find “Whites Onl...
Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades, redlining limited access to homeownership and wealth creation among racial minorities, contributing to a host of adverse social outcomes, ...
It began during World War I, continued during the 1930s, and expanded dramatically in the 1940s and 1950s. The great migration introduced millions of blacks to a world in which formal segregation did not exist and basic facilities, like transportation, restaurant, and public bathrooms, were ...
This dissertation explores sexuality in the lives of African American girls living in New Orleans during the late Jim Crow period. I investigate interracial sexual violence, which many black girls experienced and most feared. I also explore sexual mores and how girls negotiated between the pressures...
During the inter-war years women found employment for the first time in some of Britain's industrial laboratories, most of them concentrated in the food, p... HORROCKS,SALLY M - 《British Journal for the History of Science》 被引量: 17发表: 2000年 Understanding the variations of unions’ ...
According to this narrative, Koreans throughout Japan, in unison with their fellow countrymen and women in Korea, wholeheartedly embraced libera-tion, cheering “mansei” (hooray), as they had done during the Independence Movement of 1919.2 The genuine sense of release, freedom, and emancipation...
In exchange, southern Democrats were rewarded with the withdrawal of federal troops and the end of Reconstruction. During the 1870s the U.S. Supreme Court was called on to decide the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 3 S. Ct. 18, 27 L. Ed....
(ˌsɛg rɪˈgeɪ ʃən) n. 1.the act or practice of segregating. 2.the state of being segregated. 3.something segregated. 4.the separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd....
including famous Kansans George Washington Carver and Langston Hughes. Additionally, Old Buff, the school mascot, became a lasting fixture of the school in statue form as a gift from the class of 1933. While the Kansas Vocational School continued to grow during the Great Depression, Western Univ...
similar demonstrations were made in other cities. Other campaigns were waged with some success for the desegregation of beaches, restaurants, theaters, and libraries. In 1957, New York City adopted the first law forbidding racial or religious discrimination in private rental housing. During the summe...