“[W]e were, due to our ignorance and poverty, helpless against the power of the exploiters,” described Triangle Shirtwaist worker Pauline M. Newman in a letter speaking about her experience at the factory.[1] The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 workers in New York City but covertly revealed the American cultural violence which maintained tacit silence…
After compiling a sample of newspaper articles from the Dahlonega Nugget, I engaged in a data analysis of the tone and purpose of these articles. Virtually all of the articles featured some negative attention on a Black subject or African Americans in general, but the manner in which this was accomplished was interesting to view….
Recently, I compiled a small collection of newspaper articles that mentioned Black people in the Dahlonega Nugget. Many of these articles involve events that happen around the state, but some of them involve incidents that take place from far places with slight connections. For example, one of the articles references an alleged Pennsylvanian Black serial…
For this and next week, I will be using the Georgia Historical Newspapers project from the Digital Library of Georgia to investigate Black American interactions with White Americans in Georgia. Particularly, I want to investigate Lumpkin County. Unfortunately, I’ve experienced some challenges to my work so far. Finding newspapers of specifically Lumpkin County that speak…
While Black populations in cities across the South declined during the Great Migration as Black laborers fled a Southern life marked by significant racial oppression, Atlanta’s Black population remained stable and even grew during this period because of a developed sense of Black community through Auburn Avenue and the resistance of racial tension in household…
Today I examined a dataset of Black population changes in large cities through census records between 1910 and 1970. Both datasets show contrasting messages despite taking place just a few decades apart. This graph is of the dataset examining percentage of change between 1910 to 1940. Population changes reflect that African Americans migrated from Southern…
While the final report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce investigating the sinking of the Titanic acknowledged a preference given to women and children, no acknowledgement was made toward the origin of this policy as a reinforcement of gender constructions as a response to damaged masculinity. Regarding age demographics, the average of first-class elderly…
This dataset is related to a project I’m currently undertaking related to the first class of students at the North Georgia Agricultural College, today known as the University of North Georgia, and comparing their surnames to the rolls of armies for the Confederacy. I will update this dataset as time goes forward as it is…
Today I engaged in some exploratory graphing of a dataset of survivors of the Titanic. Here are my findings. This graph shows survivability by class and sex aboard the Titanic. Two things I immediately note is that the difference between survivability between First- and Second-Class passengers that are also Female is very little: First Class…
The 2012 dataset of the R.M.S. Titanic from Kaggle provides a social cross-section of the passengers aboard the Titanic and those that had perished with her. Many questions can now be asked with this published dataset, some of which I’d like to explore myself. The oldest passenger aboard the Titanic was Mr. Algernon Henry Wilson…