03.15.06
UIS Spring, 2006 - Understanding US History
Compare and contrast the problems of blacks in Philadelphia based on W.E.B. DuBois’ section on the 7th ward (in Chapter 5 of The Philadephia Negro: A Social Study) and immigrants in New York City based on Katy Claghorn’s “The Changing Character of Immigration” in World’s Work Vol. 1.
The only thing I can find about World’s Work is that it was a magazine published by Doubleday. Walter Hines Page was the founder and editor of the magazine from 1900-1913.
DuBois mentions “the riots of the ’30’s” in the excerpt assigned. A classmate helpfully found this tidbit:
From 1834 to 1849 five major riots against blacks occurred in Philadelphia. Emma Jones Lapsansky identifies the rioters as working-class whites frustrated by social immobility, who–although not in direct competition with blacks (who were largely excluded from factory work)–resented and targeted “respectable” blacks and their property, churches, and meeting halls and forced them to concentrate around Lombard and Sixth streets. From a review of African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives in the 1998 issue of Labor History.