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Chapter 8Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
Segregation and Discrimination
Objectives:
1. To analyze significant turn-of-the century trends in such areas as technology, education, and mass culture.
2. To trace the race relations at the turn of the century
3. To describe the est. of segregation and discrimination at the turn of the century
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Ch 8 Vocab
Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Orville and Wilbur Wright, George Eastman
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara movement
Ida B. Wells, poll tax, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, debt peonage
Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Ashcan school, Mark Twain, rural free delivery
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Day 1
Notes 38 - 51
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Urban Planning
Skyscrapers – built because of limited space
Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright – leading architects
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Early Sky Scrapers
Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Bldg.
St. Louis, Missouri
Burnham’s Flatiron Building
New York City
First slender tower
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Frederick Law Olmsted – landscape designer - led movement for planned urban parks. He designed Boston’s Emerald Necklace parks.
Central Park in New York was a haven from busy city life.
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New Technologies:
1. Printing revolution – use of wood pulp to make cheaper paper led to more newspapers and higher literacy rates
2. Orville and Wilbur Wright – first successful air flight lasted for 12 seconds. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Day 2
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Turn of the Century Public Education:
School 12-16 weeks per year
Ages 8-14
Strict discipline, physical punishment
By late 1880’s, kindergartens began to be popular
By early 1900’s, high schools offered variety in courses, including sciences, social studies, & vocational courses.
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African Americans mostly attended private high schools with no help from the gov’t.
Not until late 1940’s did education become available to majority of African Americans
Even immigrants were more encouraged to go to school.
Only a small number of students attended colleges and universities, but between 1880-1920, numbers quadrupled.
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Education affected culture:
As education improved, people’s culture improved. Art galleries, libraries, and museums opened.
At least one art gallery in every major city.
Important Am. artists: Thomas Eakins and Robert Henri emphasized social realism.
The Ashcan School of art portrayed urban poverty and everyday life.
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Public libraries called “poor man’s universities” opened.
Realism also affected literature.
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Writers:
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Theodore Dreiser
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
Jack London
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“Dime novels” were popular novels that glorified the West.
Many people didn’t want to read realism.
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African-Americans were excluded from libraries and art museums, and basically all other cultural events.
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Day 4
Notes 51 - 63
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Rise of Mass Culture:
Middle class Americans shared cultural activities by the late 1800’s – called mass culture.
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Mass Culture 2
Amusement parks opened = Coney Island in NYC.
Bicycling and tennis became popular sports, even for women.
New snacks became common such as Coca Cola and Hershey’s chocolate bars.
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Spectator sports
Spectator sports rose in popularity. (boxing and baseball)
Baseball – 1869 – first professional team called Cincinnati Red Stockings
1876 – National Baseball League and 1900 –American Baseball League
1903 – first World Series
Negro National League was formed in 1920
There were also many other new forms of entertainment.
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Vaudeville theatre formed. These were performances including songs, dancing, juggling, slapstick comedy, chorus lines, etc. became popular.
The circus of Barnum and Bailey hosted the “Greatest Show on Earth”, 1871.
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The first one-reel movie, 1903. An 8-10 minute silent feature called “The Great Train Robbery” debuted in 5 cent theatres called nickelodeons.
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Ragtime music blended A-Am. spirituals and European music forms, originated in the south.
Scott Joplin’s ragtime compositions made him famous in the early 1900’s.
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Ragtime paved the way for jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll.
Joplin
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Newspapers
o Mass production and circulation of newspapers rose.
o U.S. newspapers used sensational headlines to sell papers
o Joseph Pulitzer started the first Sunday newspaper edition, first comics, first sports coverage, and first women’s news page.
His newspaper was the New York World.
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Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
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“Yellow Journalism”.
William Randolph Hearst – Pulitzer’s biggest competitor, published scandals and exaggerated stories of sensational events that became known as sensationalism or “yellow journalism”.
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Newspapers also advertised new kinds of shopping.
Marshall Field’s in Chicago was the first department store.
Chain stores such as Woolworth’s opened. Sold cheap goods…nickel and dime store.
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Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck brought retail to small towns through catalogs.
By 1896, the Post Office developed RFD – rural free delivery to every home.
Despite this new prosperity, social reform was needed...
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Day 5 Segregation and Discrimination
Notes 64 - 76
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Segregation
By the 1900’s, the South had adopted a system of legal discrimination and segregation.
African-Am. fought back through the use of education.
African-Am. universities opened – Howard, Atlanta and Fisk Universities.
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Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington –
believed racism would end when blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society.
Started Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama.
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W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. DuBois opposed BTW, he believed blacks should seek a liberal arts education just like whites and should get rights now.
He led a movement called the Niagara Movement.
He joined with whites to lead the NAACP (National Association For the Advancement of Colored People)., 1909
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Book – Up From Slavery Book – The Souls of Black Folk
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Voting restrictions
All Southern states imposed voting restrictions. Poll tax Literacy tests To help the poor and uneducated
whites, a grandfather clause was added to make anyone who voted before 1867 eligible. (before slaves could vote legally)
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The Supreme Court upheld these restrictions.
Southern states segregated public and private facilities.
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Jim Crow Laws
These laws of separation became known as Jim Crow laws. (after an old minstrel song
that ended in Jump, Jim Crow).
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy vs. Ferguson – S.C. case to test the constitutionality of segregation, 1896. It ruled that separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th Amendment as long as the accommodations were equal.
This legalized separation lasted for about 60 years.
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Segregation Images
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Racism in the U.S.
Racial etiquette was expected.
Severe punishment resulted, including lynching.
1882-1892 – 1,400 African-Am. men and women were shot, burned or hanged without a trial. Lynching cont. into the 20th century.
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Discrimination
There was discrimination in the North as well.
Mexicans were also discriminated.
Many were forced into debt peonage – a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to an employer.
1911 – debt peonage was declared illegal.