HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Civil Rights Cases, Socialist Labor Party Of America, Erectile Dysfunction
Document Summary
Slavery preferable to freedom: myth that life for a black american during slavery was better. No black american would agree with that idea. Recession period so people focused on money instead of rights. Revolution of 1876 tilden / hayes election compromise of 1877. Plessy vs. ferguson (1896) civil rights voting segregation. First statewide public schools established in the south. Said he was deprived of his property which was his whiteness. Judge said that 14th amendment was about political law, not social law. Legally blacks are equal but that doesn"t mean they had to coexist together. Racial inequality, rights and the meaning of freedom today. The gilded age: its promise and its perils. New york and its people captures whirlwind of living in ny in the gilded era. The machine as a symbol of american progress and promise. Expositions highlighted industrial technology as the engine of a democratic future, an instrument of republican values.
