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Category: Events
Harlem Renaissance
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Occupy Wall Street
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Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Civil War New York
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Castellammarese War
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Cold War NY
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Lotte New York Palace
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Newspaper Strike of 1899
The Newspaper strike of 1900 was a powerful movement from young children against the major newspaper bosses, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Newsies were a group a street children who would purchase a set number of papers each morning from the different publishing companies. This number would have to be sold for each …
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
With the overpopulation of immigrants and the rise of industrialization in New York City in the nineteenth century, the number of factories and sweatshops was rising. The new technologies of production that enabled the mechanization of clothing production in the 1860s also accelerated the process of sweated work. These technologies, including the band-saw cutting machine …