HSTR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Austin Corbin, 1.-Class Torpedo Boat, Pullman Company
10 Apr 2016
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Sports for discipline and order, sacrifice itself for the good of the team. > baseball effectif because promoting discipline, order, and self-sacrifice. Players responded to these conditions just as factory workers did >unions. Question: workers being unpatriotic and threatening the stability of american institutions. This was in 1919, communism/socialism not such a big thing in the states as it was after. Between 1865 and 1878 over 200 daily trains transported visitors to coney island. 4 million passengers over the year of 1879. Bought a lot of land, cheap, built manhattan beach resort. Proclaims that it wo led be the largest seaside structure in the world. Changed in segregated bath houses, beach itself was segregated. Austin corbin asked in 1899: if this is a free country. Nyc jewish committee wrote a book cony island and the jews covering the discrimination they were facing. Women at the beach: some aren"t comfortable with them being free at the beach
