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- Juarez, James Gregory
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- Eugenics is a term sometimes casually thrown around in everyday discussions. It even appears in various forms of popular media such as television shows, movies, cartoons, novels, and even Japanese anime. Eugenics did not simply appear in human history as a coincidence. Its history is surprisingly engrained in the history of California itself. This master’s thesis has compiled a condensed history of eugenics to provide readers a solid understanding of the term. It then introduces readers to two significant historical figures as part of society’s amnesia about the existence and history of a eugenics movement: Charles Matthias Goethe and Paul Popenoe. This thesis utilizes various historical sources and artifacts of these two men to bring to life their actions within the twentieth-century eugenics movement. Goethe and Popenoe shared a singular worldview or they both wanted to use eugenics to solve the problems of twentieth-century society, such as: immigration; low IQ values; the population of low humans; opponents of eugenics; conflicted eugenicists of Catholic faith; eugenics organizations not agreeing; and a lack of sharing eugenics scholarship. However, Goethe and Popenoe had different ways of accomplishing their goals through the areas of: eugenics rhetoric; a California sterilization program; an intrinsic value of faith; analogizing low humans; collaboration among eugenics organizations; proliferating eugenics literature; and a global eugenics network. and Thesis (M.A., History)--California State University, Sacramento, 2018.
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- Thesis
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- Sacramento
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- History
- Creator:
- Boyd, Eugene H.
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- Roman politics during the final decades of the Late Republic was a vicious process of gamesmanship wherein lives of people, their families and friends were at the mercy of the gamesmen. Cicero’s public and political gamesmanship reflects the politics, class and ethnic biases of Roman society and how random events impacted personal insecurities
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- Thesis
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- Sacramento
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- History
- Creator:
- Bowman, Jason Micka-Lee
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- Statement of Problem The history of Japantowns in Northern California is limited to a few organizations and books with very little digital content available for the general public to access. Japanese communities throughout Northern California aided in the development of many towns and cities through their contributions in agriculture and labor. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and redevelopment projects in many cities in the 1950s and 1960s devastated many Japantowns throughout the state. Today, only Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose have their Japantowns intact. The Nihonmachi digital exhibit is an online exhibit that presents the history of the initial creation of the Japantowns, their growth and contributions to their local communities, the challenges they faced from discriminatory practices, and the effects that the internment and redevelopment had on them. The exhibit will provide materials on the history of Japantowns in Northern California to the general public while following exhibition practices and standards. Sources of Data Many sources were used in the creation of this project including the Center for Sacramento History, the California State Library History Room, the Japanese American Archival Collection at California State University, Sacramento, in addition to articles, books, and museum exhibition publications. Conclusion Reached The Nihonmachi digital exhibition seeks to provide access to primary sources on Japantowns in Northern California and seeks to explain why some Japantowns survived the effects of the internment during World War II and the encroachment of redevelopment in the 1950s and 60s. The exhibit is available for all to view at: http://japantowns.omeka.net/
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- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Brislan, Kyle Joseph
- Description:
- The revolutionary semblance between anarcho-syndicalism and Bolshevism, amplified by the reemergence of populist ideals among factory workers, engendered a temporary alliance between Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists and Bolsheviks at various times during 1917 and the Civil War. Lenin’s vague and politically elusive concepts of revolution and social organization persuaded some anarcho-syndicalists to join the Bolshevik vanguard. Many of Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists fell victim to the Bolshevik illusion, which necessitated the revolution’s success upon the unification of Russia’s revolutionary forces, either to overthrow the Provisional Government or defeat the Whites in the Civil War. The cooperation between anarcho-syndicalist and Bolshevik revolutionaries not only highlights Lenin’s pragmatism at this moment but also the sudden importance of anarchists, both with and against the Bolsheviks, in the making of early-Bolshevik Russia. This thesis provides a modern interpretation of anarcho-syndicalism in revolutionary Russia through a prosopographical approach. An examination of the lives of three noted anarcho-syndicalists will illustrate the development of a distinct relationship between Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists and Bolsheviks, as well as reveal three similar, yet divergent, anarcho-syndicalist responses to Bolshevism. The cases of Vladimir Shatov, Volin (Vsevolod Eikhenbaum), and Grigorii Maksimov not only represent different anarcho-syndicalist perceptions of Bolshevism during the summer and fall of 1917 but also illustrate the transnationalism of Russian-anarcho-syndicalism.
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- Thesis
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Tierney, Kevin A.
- Description:
- This thesis offers an analysis of eight newspapers published in the greater Sacramento-region during the Gold Rush era of California, 1848-1860. Topics explored include the image of Indians and white settlers in the press, Indian massacres, and the reasons for white-on-Indian violence, proposed solutions to the “Indian troubles,” and an examination of John Rollin Ridge’s editorial opinions. A number of historians have addressed the notion that white settlers and gold seekers in California, with the support of the California government, perpetrated genocide upon the indigenous people of the region. Evidence in the Sacramento-region press confirms this assertion in a variety of ways. Additionally, historians have pointed to the reservation program in California as a failed policy. Here again the Sacramento-region newspaper editors offered substantial proof of this assertion. This thesis draws primarily from the editorial writings of eight major newspapers of the Sacramento-region. The cited newspapers include the Daily Alta California, the Marysville Daily Appeal, the Marysville Herald, the Daily National Democrat, the Placer Times, the Sacramento Daily Bee, the Sacramento Daily Union, and the Sacramento Transcript. Additionally, this thesis examines other primary documents including journals, eyewitness histories, and letters. Finally, secondary accounts have also informed the analysis; specifically, I have relied on the works of Albert Hurtado, Robert Heizer, James Parins, George Phillips, James J. Rawls, and James Sandos among others. The thesis concludes that the majority of editors in the Sacramento-region blamed white incursions upon Indian lands as the catalyst for violence in the gold fields. Editors worked to convince readers that the white-on-Indian violence in the diggings was the work of a small minority of white newcomers. Further, most editors supported the creation of a reservation system in the state, although they were critical of the administration of that reservation system once established. John Rollin Ridge stood alone in favor of the assimilation of California Indians into “civilized society.”
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- Thesis
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Rife, Ronald Edward
- Description:
- This work chronicles the construction of two nineteenth-century train robbers from Tulare County, California into social bandits. It presents the context of late nineteenth-century California as an essential element in creating a social bandit, and suggests the unifying features of the social bandit for California citizens. This study utilizes local newspaper, biographies, and an unpublished memoir as source material for examining the construction of these two men as “social bandits.”
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Almquist, Karen Singh
- Description:
- No close examination of Hindustani Ghadar Party literature has been completed in order to ascertain the Ghadar Party view of the political relationship between British-controlled India and America. This thesis will provide an analysis of their newsletters and other correspondence in order to understand how their ideological perception evolved in relation to the United States and British India. Specifically, the Hindustani Ghadar Party's view of the political relationship between Indian freedom and American freedom will be studied I willfocus on three distinct time periods: from the beginning of the Ghadar Party movement up until the end of the quixotic revolution to invade India; during the federal trial of 191 7-1918; and finally, the time period between 1918 and the 1920 's where the political perceptions of the Ghadar Party diversified The timeframe of this study is 1913-1928. My examination shows that the political ideology changed significantly during the years 1913-1925. Notably, the federal trial acted as a milestone for the group 's ideology-the pre-war ideas expressing similarities between America and India changed to an idea that America had lost its way and that the Indian expatriates were the true holders ofAmerican virtues of freedom. The sources usedfor this thesis include Hindustani Ghadar Party newsletters, autobiographies of members and leaders, political writing of the leaders, newspaper excerpts from the New York Times and Berkeley 's Daily Californian, trial transcript from the neutrality trial U.S. v. Franz Bopp, San rancisco Chronicle coverage of the federal criminal trial brought against Hindustani Ghadar Party members, general files from the Department of Justice related to the conspiracy case, records from the Immigration and Naturalization service, and post-trial telegrams to ffiliates in New York City. This thesis references a large number of primary sources, several translated specifically for this thesis, in addition to numerous secondary sources as well as the Foreign Relations of the United States, Lansing Papers.
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Von Brauchitsch, Dennis M.
- Description:
- This study was initiated in an attempt to discover the events surrounding the growth and development of the Ku Klux Klan in the state of California and to determine the extent of Klan political strength and influence during the early 1920's. Much has been written about the twenties and the role of the Klan in the historical events of that time. However, the state of California has been almost completely ignored in this respect. Those who write history, and the Klan's role in it, have either determined that a discussion of the development of the Ku Klux Klan in California does not merit extensive coverage or else they have been unwilling or unable to do the research necessary to properly discuss this topic. Whatever the reason, a perusal of the literature has revealed a shocking void which needs to be filled. This study makes no pretense of being the final, authoritative word on the subject. It is hoped, however, that it may provide a sort of initial step in that direction.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Francis, Carol S.
- Description:
- The Western Norse Settlement in Greenland disappeared suddenly, probably in 1342. Research in the area includes medieval sources, archeological studies of the ruins, climatic data from the Greenlandic icecap, oral stories from the Inuit in Greenland and Canada, and possible sightings of ancestors of the Norse in the Canadian Arctic. Feeling threatened both physically by the Thule (ancestors of the Inuit) and a cooling climate, and economically by the Norwegian crown, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Settlement in Greenland, the Western Settlement voluntarily left en masse for the new world, probably in 1342 based on sailing dates.
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- Sacramento
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- History
- Creator:
- Batarseh, Yousef M.
- Description:
- Over 43 years after the incident, the official stance of the U.S. government on the attack of the USS Liberty on 8 June 1967 is still unsatisfactory, as testimonies from survivors speak of a government cover-up. Being the only major maritime incident not investigated by Congress, this paper presents layers of evidence supporting this claim and questions the openly accepted version that it was an accident. Research for this paper includes various international newspapers, personal files of the Liberty Alliance, including a letter from Senator John McCain, a BBC documentary by Liberty survivors with eyewitness accounts refuting government claims, a report on war crimes from the USS Liberty Veterans Association from 2005, recently published books, internet sources as well as phone interviews by the author. Discrepancies of reporting this attack are significant and bring up a myriad of questions: why did Israel claim it was a case of mistaken identity, why did the Johnson administration control the media reporting of the attack, why would Israel intentionally attack an ally vessel, why are some documents still classified, and most of all, why has every request for a congressional inquiry been denied? The Navy Court of Inquiry’s hasty investigation only lasted 5 days, missing vital testimony from survivors whose voices have yet to be heard in the mainstream media. Israel’s undocumented claim of a threat contradicts scores of eyewitness accounts, justifying a real and uncensored investigation.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Hoffman, Colin S.
- Description:
- This thesis offers an analysis of the activities of the radical Los Angeles anti-interventionist group the Friends of Progress (FOP) during the 1940s. This group, while advocating non-intervention, also sympathized with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and aggressively attacked the Roosevelt administration. Embracing the belief that sinister international forces were poised to destroy the American way of life, the FOP adopted fascist propaganda to facilitate their campaign to inform and arouse the American public. Their use of Nazi propaganda before and during World War II signified not only the influence of Hitler and Nazism but also the prevalence of conspiratorial politics in Californian society. The same climate of paranoia that influenced the FOP also infused the efforts by state and federal officials to eradicate radical wartime dissent and un-Americanism. A byproduct of southern California’s radical politics of the 1930s, the influence of radical Right movements is critical to understanding California’s radical wartime dissent—and its suppression—at the onset of World War II. A number of historians have addressed the volatile nature of radical politics during the tumultuous 1930s; however, many analyses either emphasize the re-emergence of the Left in U.S. politics or the larger radical Right organizations such as the German American Bund, Father Charles Coughlin’s Union for Social Justice, or Huey Long’s Share the Wealth movement. Less known are the smaller groups, like the FOP, that arose after the eradication of larger radical movements at the hands of the federal government. Additionally, the onset of World War II often serves as a demarcation line separating the political unrest of the Great Depression from the unifying experience of World War II. This work emphasizes southern California’s radicalism of the 1930s and its continuing influence on California radicalism at the onset of World War II. This thesis draws primarily on legislative records from the California Department of Justice, in particular the records of the Attorney General, and California Appellate Court Third District records housed at the California State Archives. These records provided an uncontested framework for establishing events chronologically and conceptualizing details underpinning key aspects in the trial. Also important was the report of the California Joint Legislative Fact Finding Committee from 1943, which chronicled California’s investigations into subversive activities using the testimonies of Committee investigators, investigators from public organizations and suspected subversives. Other primary resources included contemporary accounts and political tracts, as well as articles from the Los Angeles Times and Time magazine. Finally, secondary accounts also informed my analysis, with a reliance on the work of Richard Hofstadter, Carey McWilliams, Kevin Starr, and David M. Kennedy. The analysis of the Friends of Progress uncovered not simply a radical Right group ultimately indicted and convicted of subversion under California law at the onset of World War II. Rather, the FOP also exemplified the continuity between southern California’s radical Right movements of the 1930s and their continuation in the form of smaller anti-war organizations as the U.S. entered World War II. The association of radical Right groups with extremism, anti-Semitism, and Nazism fed the ongoing perception of Fifth Column infiltration and fueled California’s anti-subversion efforts during World War II.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Tapia, Andres Alberto
- Description:
- The 1954 overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Gúzman orchestrated by the United States has been approached by various points of view by different historians. While many aspects of the overthrow such as the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency, the influence of the United Fruit Company, and the Guatemalan government’s relation to communism have all been covered, one crucial player in the overthrow, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, has not gained the same critical attention. Castillo Armas acted as the counterrevolutionary the CIA chose to lead the overthrow of Arbenz therefore understanding how he received the role and how he performed his task is important to understanding this historical moment. Documentation regarding the CIA’s covert operations has become more readily available in two forms. The first is the Foreign Relation of the United States series, which has added an entire volume detailing the workings of the CIA and the State Department in Guatemala. Secondly, the CIA’s Electronic Reading Room provides further documentation on the events prior to 1952 not featured in the Foreign Relations of the United States volume. In addition to American sources, a variety of Guatemalan sources have been obtained including one of Guatemala’s leading newspapers of the era, El Imparcial, and accounts from Guatemalan leaders on both sides of the conflict. The involvement of Carlos Castillo Armas in the CIA’s operation to overthrow the Arbenz government was not arbitrary. He had been in contact with the CIA as early as 1950 and his work to overthrow the Guatemalan government impressed the CIA. He appeared more powerful and better organized than competing Guatemalan rebels and subdued the ones that threatened his position. His actions influenced the decisions of the CIA. While his ultimate role in the CIA’s operation was only one part of a multifaceted plot, he played the part well and manipulated the CIA to his advantage.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Janes, Adelheid
- Description:
- In 1855, a small group of predominately Mexican men murdered five white people and one Native American man in the now non-existent mining town of Lower Rancheria in Amador County, California. In the wake of the Rancheria massacre, the Anglo-American residents in the surrounding region retaliated violently against the Spanish-speaking community. White lynch mobs hanged as many as thirty innocent Mexican men and forced the rest of the large Mexican and Chilean population to leave the area. Using primary source materials, including personal correspondence, journal entries, and newspaper accounts, this thesis explores the racial, economic, and political environment within which such a violent episode was able to occur. It also seeks to provide an understanding of the historical context for Anglo-American prejudice against Mexicans, as well as a psychological explanation for the onset of mob violence.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Whitney, Justin Timothy
- Description:
- This study focuses on an area within northern California during the nineteenth century. Specifically, the following study provides insight into the early history of Folsom, California. Generally, this work examines the intersection of two different worldviews and the subsequent changes that took place. While the traditional interpretation of the California gold rush suggests the extraction of gold occurred out of nowhere, in actuality, gold was simply the next exploited element within the natural borderland of the Nisenan. Through the examination of diaries, newspaper articles, and scholarly works created within the nineteenth century, one gains insight into the early history of the Folsom locality.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Heim, Katherine Anne
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- Abstract of ONEIDA‟S UTOPIA: A RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT by Katherine Anne Heim The Oneida Community was a Perfectionist communal venture undertaken in Madison County, New York from 1848 until 1881. The group‟s leader, John Humphrey Noyes, and his followers claimed to be conducting a scientific social experiment based on their religious tenets. Historical scholarship has placed little emphasis on the scientific aspects of the community in the context of antebellum Evangelical religion and has instead focused on the community‟s social organization, economic organization, and the theocratic leadership of Noyes. The community‟s copious publications and member correspondence provide the foundation of primary sources. Secondary sources provide background on the popularly held beliefs of the role of science and the millennial religious fervor of the antebellum era associated with the Second Great Awakening. The conclusion drawn is that the Oneida Community did engage in a series scientific experiments founded on their religious beliefs that challenged traditional marriage practices, domestic living arrangements, and human reproduction in an attempt to prove the pangenesis theory and herald the millennium.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- McPhee, Meghan
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- Long before written record, men and women have known the healing properties of herbs and medicinal arts have been practiced even before the first civilizations emerged. This ancient tradition of treating infirmity with herbal medicants was especially significant during the late middle ages, when women healers became a target and were cast as enemies of society. This thesis examines the evolution of the female healing tradition, focusing on the role of women as healers and their devaluation to witches during the renaissance and early modern periods (1500-1700). This study will also address why women and especially those identified as healers were singled out in the witch crazes that sporadically raged throughout western Europe for over two centuries.
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Kassis, Ruth Annette
- Description:
- Between the end of World War I and the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, the business of radio broadcasting in the United States developed rapidly. When Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927 as a means of regulating broadcasting, it did so without an understanding of either the realities of the new medium or its potential. The phrase “public interest, convenience, and necessity” in Section Eleven of the Radio Act was never clearly defined in regard to broadcasting, and the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) created by the Radio Act was vested with broad regulatory powers driven by the undefined public interest standard. The Communications Act of 1934 replaced the FRC with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Communications Act gave the FCC authority to regulate all communications by wire and radio and reaffirmed the concept of the “public interest, convenience, and necessity” as a key, although largely undefined, component of broadcast regulation. The Communications Act of 1934 also upheld the interests of commercial broadcasting over the interests of non-profit and commercial-free broadcasters. Public interest became synonymous with general audience appeal, not with any form of public service or community need. Media historians have largely ignored the West when studying the early years of radio broadcasting. While historians have studied several angles of radio’s development—technical, regulatory, cultural, debates over advertising—their work has primarily focused on those regions of the United States where radio had its initial corporate launch. Much of the examination of radio’s beginnings and early growth have focused on public policy, the development of national networks, and the advertising campaigns that supported nationally broadcast programs. This thesis examines one West Coast company’s early entry into, and development of, local and regional radio in California from the early 1920s through the 1940s. I argue that the development of radio broadcasting was different for a regional business located far from the national networks, the industry lobbies, and the point of legislative and governmental control. The McClatchy Company and the McClatchy family, publishers of the Sacramento Bee, entered broadcast radio at the industry’s beginnings with a single five watt radio station that later grew to a mere 100 watts where it stayed until 1935, well into radio’s so-called “golden age.” Although operating a number of low-powered radio stations and lacking in political influence, the McClatchy Company achieved success in its initial broadcast ventures by consistently adhering to its own definition of what constituted the public interest. Operating within the shifting and changing regulations of the new broadcast industry, the McClatchys focused on serving their listeners using the tenets adhered to by their newspapers: the media outlet serves a local audience, meets local needs, and does not bow to outside influence. Using archival and manuscript collections, newspapers and periodicals, and U.S. government and broadcast industry publications, I show how legislative developments and the differing ideas of what constituted the public interest had a more immediate impact on the operation of regional stations like McClatchy-owned Sacramento station KFBK. In addition, I examine how local broadcasters—those most likely to serve a specific regional audience rather than a generalized national audience—had to struggle as their businesses adapted to shifting regulations, and how one company’s concept of what served the public ultimately could not succeed within the commercial broadcast model upheld by the Communications Act of 1934.
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Ruiz, Stephanee Andraea
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- In Looking Backward, A Modern Utopia, and Moving the Mountain, Edward Bellamy, H.G. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, respectively, refashioned conceptions of women’s roles as the basis for their visions of economic and social order. Although each of these authors offered his or her own method for creating new forms of social order, all started from the premise that order will follow from universal access to education, satisfying work, and a high quality of food, clothing and shelter because these provisions will allow women to fulfill their highest duty: they can become mothers to children who are healthier in mind, body, and spirit that they otherwise would be, and so continuously improve the physical, mental, and moral health of humanity.
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- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Chung, Tai Woong
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- On December 26 1908, to the disdain of white Americans, an African American pugilist captured the laurels of the heavyweight championship of the world. Becoming the seventh heavyweight champion in modern history and more significantly setting the precedent as the first black heavyweight champion, John Arthur Johnson, shattered the glass ceiling of a segregated sport within a segregated nation. What ensued next was a desperate search to find a white boxer to defeat Johnson and recapture the championship back into the possession of the white race, an endeavor labeled as the search for the ‘Great White Hope.’ Once the greatest of white hopes, James Jeffries, was defeated by Johnson, a war was waged against Johnson, leading to anti-Johnson sentiments and race rioting. This anti-Johnson crusade was burning across the nation while mainstream newspapers were fanning flames to their respective demographics. This thesis investigates through the diverse lens between leading mainstream newspapers and Afro-American newspapers, within three metropolitan cities: New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago, the elements used within articles to propagate fear, racial discord, anti-Jack Johnson sentiments among other ill natured acts, while observing the rebuttal of Afro-American newspapers. This study will examine and conclude why the nation invested such a keen interest in the Jack Johnson – Jim Jeffries battle, that it was hailed as the ‘Fight of the Century.’ As well as document, why race rioting broke out among numerous cities across the nation, and the roles played by each respective media, mainstream newspapers and Afro American newspapers.
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Wilson, Frederic John
- Description:
- Detailed information on economic losses suffered by Japanese American internees is scarce, especially community-specific detail. This study helps to address this problem by examining Japanese American landownership in communities within Sacramento and San Joaquin County during internment. Because of its relevance to economic activity as well as its psychological connection to community identity, landownership is of particular interest in examining the effects of internment. To develop an understanding of how internment affected real estate owned by Japanese Americans and how Japanese Americans reacted to protect their own interests, this study relies primarily on property and financial records held at county recorder offices and oral histories collected by the California State University Oral History program. Other sources proved vital to compiling lists of Japanese American-owned properties in the studied area, particularly property tax records and the Stockton City Directory. Internment proved to have a significant and deleterious effect on Japanese American land ownership. All of the regions examined saw a decrease in Japanese American-owned land, generally resulting from economic hardships associated with internment. Whites did not organize to deprive Japanese Americans of their land, and panic sales or extraordinary pressures not related to a reduction in income had little to no effect on Japanese American real estate holdings during internment. Most of the Japanese American land sales that did not ensue from reduced income and financial obligations occurred because of permanent migration that followed removal and internment.
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- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
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