1863-1925:New Orleans, LA Homer Plessy Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

Jim Crow was not a person, yet it affected millions of lives. Named after a popular minstrel character which stereotyped African-Am. Jim Crow personified gov’t sanctioned segregation, discrimination & oppression.

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” “We are all Americans, not only by birth & by citizenship…and ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.”

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1910 3% Af-Am. b/t ages 15-19 in school

HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES CASTLES V. SLUMS GILDED AGE HARD KNOCK LIFE

Eighth Wonder of the World 1883 Oldest suspension bridge in the US. Connects Brooklyn to Manhattan

10 story Wainwright Building 1890-1891 St.Louis, Missouri “Father of Skyscrapers” 10 story Wainwright Building 1890-1891 St.Louis, Missouri Louis Sullivan 1856-1924 “Father of Modernism”

Flatiron Building 1902 NY, New York Daniel Burnham 1846-1912 “Make no little plans”

Chicago as the “White City” 400th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage

“First in Flight” Kitty Hawk, NC 1903; 120 feet  1905 24 miles  1920 airmail

“organic style”, expansive, Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959 “organic style”, expansive, open, horizontal 1935

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The worlds finest green spaces. 1822-1903 NY City, Central Park Druid Hills Neighborhood Ponce de Leon Ave. Biltmore Estate, NC

1878 Utica, NY 1960 Greensboro NC sit-ins The "Five and Dime" store, as my grandma called it, was a fun place for a kid and an inexpensive place to get some toys. I remember my grandma taking me there and buying me Army men and a sticker book to bring back to her house, and we often had lunch there – a grilled cheese sandwich and a Coke was the perfect lunch for me. Woolworths was the first shopping experience for a lot of kids who took their allowance or whatever change they could gather. It introduced them to the world of consumerism. It was around when shopping seemed like a treat.

George Eastman Rolled Film 1884, Kodak Camera 1888

William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951 Cali. Joseph Pulitzer 1847-1911 Hungary William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951 Cali.

Thomas Eakins, Ashcan school of Realism

Web Perfecting Press 1884 by a German watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler

“Landmark Am. film masterpiece” Producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but months later was retitled for its world premiere in New York. The film was based on former N.C. Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play, “Landmark Am. film masterpiece” Controversial Racist Groundbreaking