Segregation was made law several times in 19th- and 20th-century America as some believed that Black and white people were incapable of coexisting. In the lead-up to the liberation of enslaved people under the Thirteenth Amendment, abolitionists argued about what the fate of slaves should be ...
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The tide of opposition across the nation began to rise just before World War II and was given impetus by the activities of civil-rights organizations. African Americans, enjoying a somewhat improved economic status, were in the 1930s more assertive of their rights. General opinion may have been...
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Redlining in New Deal America https://dsl.richmond.edu Exploring Redlining Use the slider to explore redlining areas in Boston. Use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out, click and drag to navigate across the map. Use this map to explore redlining in more detail. Click on an area...
As elaborated at length in other articles, the 1960s in Britain, North America, and to an extent elsewhere witnessed a new era of (human) geography as spatial science or locational analysis: a highly ‘technical’ version of the discipline, predicated on quantitative methods, formal modeling (...
From registering voters to battling suppression, these organizations have helped grow and empower America’s Latino electorate. Read more The Mexican schools started two weeks late every fall so that children could join their parents in the walnut harvest. They’d arrive at school with their palms...
Washington DC’s population more than tripled between 1890 and 1950, as black migrants from the South sought opportunities for education and employment here and in other cities across the North. In addition, the expanding federal government drew black and white jobseekers, especially during the two...
Previous studies of cortical retinotopy focused on influences from the contralateral visual field, because ascending inputs to cortex are known to be cross... Roger,B.,H.,... - 《Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America》 被引量: 728发表: 1998年 An ...
This thesis examines how Norfolk, Virginia maintained residential segregation between the years 1914, when the city passed its first segregation ordinance, and 1959, when it received the All-America City Award for its massive slum clearance projects. By focusing on federal government initiatives in ...