1. 1863-1925:New Orleans, LA Homer Plessy Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

2. 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.

4. “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.”

5. S S S

7. 1910 3% Af-Am. b/t
ages in school

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

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

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

11. Flatiron Building 1902 NY, New York
Daniel Burnham
“Make no little plans”

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

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

14. “organic style”, expansive,
Frank Lloyd Wright
“organic style”, expansive,
open, horizontal
1935

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

16. 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.

17. George Eastman Rolled Film 1884, Kodak Camera 1888

18. William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951 Cali.
Joseph Pulitzer
Hungary
William Randolph Hearst Cali.

20. Thomas Eakins, Ashcan school of Realism

21. Web Perfecting Press
1884 by a German watchmaker
Ottmar Mergenthaler

22. “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