Livign History Interview

1. Do you remember what the U.S. response was when sputnik 1 was launched?

First of all everyone was stunned cause the Russians beat us on the space race and the country was embarrassed and then the president came on TV and said we were going to put something up in space and asked everyone to help in the space race. Then we overcame the Russians and put the first man in space.

2. How did Americans respond to Brown V. Board of education’s decision?

I didn’t remember the actual decisions all I remember was the backlash. I was in collage at the time it happened and it was a good thing and opportunity for the country to do something good and make everyone equal.

3. What did you think about M.L.K.’s “I have a dream” speech?

It was inspiring speech it didn’t matter your race it was just u had a dream and I figure good things were going to come from the speech.

4. Where were you when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?

I washed it on TV I had broken my leg so I couldn’t get out much and I had seen the whole thing on TV.

5. Were you affected by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?

I was especially each individual that saw it couldn’t believe it happened cause he was such a good man and was the youngest president at the time and he was also doing so much for the country

6. What are your memories of how the African-American community reacted after the assassination of M.L.K.?

I don’t recall a lot of thing happenings there was riots and like J.F.K. he was a national leader and he was a guy for all the people not just the black people and my reaction towards his dead was just like Kennedys I was just stunned. Also thinking who the heck would do it and which made u get angry at the person.

7. What brought about the beginning of the E.P.A.?

It was a growing movement. It started with a lady Rachel Carson and she wrote a book “Silent spring” and how this pesticide was affecting the bird population which would affect other things in the environment and how people wanted to help the environment.

8. What changes have you seen on how American’s treat the environment since the environmentalist movement?

One of the interesting things that happened we had the first Earth day. I was there for the first earth day and I march on it. It was my first march this classmate came and g tem out of the cafeteria and asked me to come with them. But for the last couple years the E.P.A. have water down because the funds we receive form the government went down.

9. Describe what it was like in the U.S. during the Vietnam War?

That’s a really long storey but ill try to make it real short. What happened they were having drafts so a lot for the soldiers that went over there did there job but they were really into it because no one was threatening the country we were just helping the Vietnamese. You didn’t have a choice if your number was called you had to go to war I was almost sent to war but because of the broken leg I had during the Kennedy assassination I mention earlier got deferred because of my broken leg.

10. What is your opinion on how President George W. Bush responded to the 9/11 attacks?

Well I like the decision the president took on 9/11 because to that time we didn’t have no security against any terroristic threats. At the time we didn’t have the safeguard other countries had so it became a wakeup call. The fall out of the 9/11 attacks for me was that I lost my job with the E.P.A. because they had to find a way to fund the war so they cut a lot of budgets for many companies that when I got fired form the E.P.A. cause they paid me a lot and cost them too much. That’s also when I became a teacher and here I am now.

Boom, Bust, Recovery

Boom

Boom
1. Red scare-This is a political cartoon showing how the U.S. did not want the immigrants in the country during the red scare of the early 1920s It showed that because they thought the immigrants wanted to spread communism
2. Automobiles-This was one of the early Automobiles the model T. It was the first automobile to be mass produce in Henry Ford’s factories.
3. Electrical Appliances- This was the First electrical appliance and it just turned 100 years old. It was a heart shape toaster and it was the showcase it mostly every kitchen.
4. 19th Amendment- This amendment gave women the right to vote. They passed the amendment after women started working in factories because men were in the wars.
5. Prohibition- This is a picture that showed the community dumping alcohol into sewers after it was banned. The banned lasted from 1920 to 1933.
6. 18th Amendment- This picture shows women going against alcohol. The sign states that they do not want their husbands to kiss them that drink alcohol.
7. Babe Ruth- he was a famous baseball player during the boom time. The boom time where his best years of his career.
8. NAACP- This is the stamp of the NAACP which means National association for the advancement of Color People. The NAACP helped the African-American community a lot during the Boom period.
9. Langston Hughes- This is a picture of Langston Hughes he came up during the Harlem renaissance with his famous poems. He is known for writing dreams deferred.
10. Louis Armstrong- This is Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet he was famous jazz player of the Boom time.

Bust

Bust
1. Stock Market- This picture represents how the stock market crash and the people ended up on the streets trying to figure out what to do. The crash brought about the Great Depression.
2. Speculation- It was a time where the people where being lied too about the stocks in the market. They where taking risky loans expecting to get profits.
3. Black Tuesday- This picture shows a newspaper article on the crash of the stock markets. It also represents the first day of The Great depression.
4. Great Depression- This picture shows sad women with her children at the mid point of the great depression. The great depression made every1 suffer only few had it good thru it.
5. Shantytowns- This picture represents a shantytown in the U.S. they are settlements of the lowest which are made out any material where people take refugee during hard times or in times of poverty.
6. Hoovervilles- This is a picture of the many Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. Hoovervilles was a fancy name for Shanty Towns which are settlements used during times of need.
7. Soup Kitchen- This is a soup kitchen of the great depression. They didn’t literally serve soup in all the soup kitchens. In this one they serve coffee and doughnuts for the unemployed or needy.
8. Bread lines- This picture represents another Bread line which is the same as a soup kitchen. Here they go and receive food also.
9. Dust Bowl- this picture represents a men in a dust bowl during the 1930’s. Dust Bowl came because of the dried soil of fields they reached cities in the east and stopped at the ocean.
10. Bonus Army- This picture shows how WW1 veterans where at the capitol steps demanding pay. Bonus army where made of ex-veterans of ww1 that demanded pay in large groups.

Recovery

Recovery
1.Franklin D. Roosevelt- This was the president that helped the U.S. come out of the Great depression. That is what he is mostly known as one of the best presidents of the U.S.
2.Eleanor Roosevelt- She was the first lady and wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt and she supported his new deal. It brought the U.S. out the Great Depression.
3.New Deal- It was the package made by Franklin D. Roosevelt which helped the U.S. recover form the Great Depression. It was based of the 3 R’s relief, reform, and recover.
4.100 days- The first 100 days of Roosevelt’s term where intensive for him. He proved that his new deal was good in the First day after having the Bank Holiday.
5.Motion Pictures- This was one of the Motion pictures of the 1940’s. At the time the motion pictures didn’t have sound only movements and at times someone would p0lay a piano to go along with it.
6.AAA (agricultural adjustment act) - This a picture of the reduction of the agricultural area. The act paid farmers to reduce crop area to raise crops prices.
7.CCC (civilian conservation corps) - This picture is a seal of the CCC. The CCC was a relief program for unemployed men to help them and their families.
8.FDIC (Glass-steagall act) - this is the seal of the FDIC. The FDIC was made by the U.S. government to gain trust by the community so they could use banks once again.
9.NIRA (national Industrial recovery Act) - The act was made by FDR to help the U.S. community form his New Deal plan. The act helped the community by insuring them to have fair wages and treated equal in every work area.
10. Social security act- This picture shows a pamphlet made by the people on how F.D.R. proposed the act. The act helped by limiting the dangers the American society would suffer like old age and unemployment like many more.