Hope you're having a great weekend POU! Today in our last installment looking at the lives and events for African Americans during the Gilded Age (1875-1910), we take a look at one of the top entertainment shows for this era. The Rabbit's Foot Company, also known as the Rabbit('s) Foot Minstrels and colloquially as "The Foots", was a long-running minstrel and variety … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age
Friday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
Now here's another black history moment I never knew about, the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America held in 1895. The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist. In August 1895, representatives from 42 African-American … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
Thursday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was one of many ironies for African Americans. The period between the late 19th century and early 20th century was one of particular hardship for the majority of African Americans. Emancipation had only occurred a few decades earlier and the promises of 40 acres and a mule never materialized. Reconstruction saw gains in politics with quite a few men of color … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
Wednesday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
During the era known as The Gilded Age, the ultra wealthy elite of America sought to emulate the excesses of the Brits in choosing their recreations of choice when not robbing the country blind. Taking up the customs of the British elite, the upper class used particular sports to mark themselves off and maintain social prestige. The sports of choice were yachting, polo, fox … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age
Good Morning POU! The Gilded Age was a time of extreme wealth for a few, and extremely dire poverty for a whole lot more. Of course this era, the immediate years following reconstruction was of particular hardship for the vast majority of African-Americans, most of working age, were former slaves, with no more than the clothes on their backs as they trekked for better … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age