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3 days ago · 1958-1965 -- v. 6. 1966-1976. Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion by Judith Tick. Call Number: ML200 .M89 2008. ISBN: 0195139887. "The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000." Off the Record by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, performer. Call Number: M1366.K45 O4 2006.
3 days ago · Labor in the 1920s. The Preparedness Day Bombing killed ten people and hurt labor for decades. During the 1920s, the open shop efforts succeeded through a coordinated strategy called the "American Plan". In one case, the Industrial Association of San Francisco raised over a million dollars to break the building trades strikes in 1921 that led ...
4 days ago · The Vintage Car Era is thought of as a time of both jubilation and despair. A period between the beginning of the first world war and the end of the next, uplifted by the Roaring 20's and slammed by the Great Depression, or about 1920 to 1945. Our timeline series starts with the the Antique Car Era and the invention of the gasoline engine ...
1 day ago · The 1920s also saw a lack of strong leadership within the labor movement. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor died in 1924 after serving as the organization's president for 37 years. Observers said successor William Green, who was the secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers , "lacked the aggressiveness and the imagination ...
1 day ago · The Republic of China ( ROC ), or simply China, was a sovereign state based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949 prior to the government's relocation to Taiwan, where it continues to be based today. [f] The ROC was established on 1 January 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing dynasty, ending the imperial history of China.
4 days ago · Great Songs of the 1920s: Part 2 Quiz. There were many great songs written in the 1920s. Part two of my 1920s song series will look at ten of them from 1925-1927. A multiple-choice quiz by Ilona_Ritter . Estimated time: 2 mins. Last 3 plays: Guest 65 ( 7/10 ), Guest 49 ( 6/10 ), Guest 204 ( 9/10 ).
2 days ago · Anarchism was growing in influence until the mid-1920s when Bolshevik successes seemed to indicate the way to communism. Likewise in Japan, anarcho-communists such as Kōtoku Shūsui, Osugi Sakae and Hatta Shuzo were inspired by the works of westerners philosophers and opposed capitalism and the state. Shuzo created the school of "pure anarchism".
