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101	Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era Allen, Davis 13 September 2016 (has links) No description available. Agriculture American History Conservation Ecology Environmental Studies History Land Use Planning Modern History Natural Resource Management Sustainability Water Resource Management Wildlife Conservation Wildlife Management environmental history ecological history wetland swamp marsh agriculture drainage conservation preservation soil conservation flood control new deal franklin d roosevelt hugh hammond bennett henry a wallace jay ding darling aldo leopold
102	Unity, Justice and Protection: The Colored Trainmen of America's Struggle to End Jim Crow in the American Railroad Industry [and Elsewhere] James, Ervin 2012 August 1900 (has links) The Colored Trainmen of America (CTA) actively challenged Jim Crow policies on the job and in the public sphere between the 1930s and 1950s. In response to lingering questions concerning the relationship between early black labor activism and civil rights protest, this study goes beyond both local lure and cursory research. This study examines the Colored Trainmen's major contributions to the advancement of African Americans. It also provides context for some of the organization's shortcomings in both realms. On the job the African American railroad workers belonging to the CTA fought valiantly to receive the same opportunities for professional growth and development as whites working in the operating trades of the railroad industry. In the public sphere, these men collectively protested second-class services and accommodations both on and off the clock. Neither their agenda, the scope of their activities, nor their influence was limited to the railroad lines the members of the CTA operated within the Gulf Coast region. The CTA belonged to a progressive coalition comprised of four other powerful independent African American labor unions committed to unyielding labor activism and the toppling of Jim Crow. Together, they all worked to effectuate meaningful social change in partnership with national civil rights attorney Charles H. Houston. Houston's experience and direction, coupled with the CTA's dedicated membership and willingness to challenge authority, created considerable momentum in movements aimed at toppling racial inequality in the workplace and elsewhere. Like most of their predecessors, the CTA's struggle for advancement fits within a continuum of successive challenges to economic exploitation and racial inequality. No single person or organization can take full credit for ending segregation or achieving equality. Many who remain nameless and faceless contributed and sacrificed. This study not only chronicles the contribution of a relatively unsung African American labor organization that waged war against Jim Crow on two different fronts, it also pays homage to a few more individuals who made a difference in the lives of an entire race of people during the course of a bitterly contested, never-ending struggle for racial equality in the United States of America during the twentieth century. Colored Trainmen of America Labor Civil Rights History African American Gulf Coast Region American History Twentieth Century American Race Relations Jim Crow Black Labor Unions Charles Hamilton Houston Joseph C. Waddy A. Philip Randolph FEPC Double V. Campaign William H. Hastie 1960s American Railroad System Labor Law Labor Movement Industrial Unions Transportation Interstate Transport World War I World War II The Great Depression The New Deal Executive Order 8802 FDR Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower LBJ Richard Nixon Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
103	Greta Magnusson Grossman : Från funkis till California Modern Magnusson Harling, Emma January 2024 (has links) This thesis explores the architecture, interior design and furniture design of Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999), a pioneering Swedish Modernist who emigrated to the United States in 1940 and became part of the design movement California Modern in Los Angeles. Despite a productive and acclaimed career, her work was more or less forgotten until rediscovered in the early 2000’s.In this thesis, Greta Magnusson Grossman’s broader context is understood through literature studies of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, the introduction of Swedish Modern at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the postwar design movement California Modern, and the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1948. Similar needs for well designed, low cost housing and furniture in the two countries are found.To further examine the work of Magnusson Grossman, her 1949 residence at Waynecrest Drive in Los Angeles is visually analyzed and compared with contemporary Case Study House #8 by American design couple Charles and Ray Eames from 1949, and Swedish furniture designer and architect Bruno Mathsson’s Exhibition Hall from 1950. Several correlations between the three environments are identified, and confirms Greta Magnusson Grossman’s progressive contributions in the fields of architecture, interiors and furniture design. Art History Architecture Design Interior Design Furniture Design Modernism Swedish Modern Functionalism California Modern Women Architects Greta Magnusson Grossman Charles and Ray Eames Bruno Mathsson The Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 New York World’s Fair 1939 Case Study Houses New Deal Folkhemmet the People’s Home Gunnar Asplund Sven Markelius Uno Åhrén Gregor Paulsson Per Albin Hansson Franklin D. Roosevelt Le Corbusier Frank Lloyd Wright Walter Gropius Bauhaus Art History Konstvetenskap

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