The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area (MDNHA) is the land where the Blues began, where Rock and Roll was created and where Gospel remains a vibrant art.The Korean War and American History: How the Conflict Started. Though the Korean War started on this day 6. June 2. 5, 1. 95. North Korean tanks crossed the 3. South Korea, TIME's reporting from the following week reveals it took several days for the United States to realize the scope of what had happened. It was early Sunday morning in Korea, the middle of Saturday afternoon in Independence, Mo. Find out more about the history of Mississippi, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. TV Land is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division. MetaMetrics develops scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies that link assessment results with instruction. In the former, TIME reported, . President Harry Truman was visiting with friends and supporters in his home state when he received a telephone call from Secretary of State Dean Acheson. About a day passed. In Korea, American civilians were evacuated as the Southern army rallied to try to hold the line. The 3. 8th parallel was, one State Department official admitted, an entirely arbitrary line, chosen by the World War II victors in Potsdam with no consideration for the geographical, economic or political realities of the country—but it was the border, nonetheless, and it had been crossed. In the U. S., Truman returned to the capital to meet with advisers. The nation had already taken a side and promised help, but the question of how to help was unresolved. They sacrifice themselves against the tanks . Korea is very hard up because aid was so slow. It is too little and too late. Outside 1. 00 reporters thronged the executive lobby or stood by telephones in the adjacent press room. Exactly at noon, Presidential Secretary Charles Ross stirred them into a whirlwind as he passed out the text of the gravest, hardest- hitting answer to aggression that the U. S. Those in Congress who supported the President's actions carried the day, and the House quickly approved an appropriation bill to fund the military action, which would officially continue for about three more years. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1. New York Public Library / Getty Images. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches Fire (Mar. By Michele Anderson. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 1. March 2. 5, 1. 91. New York City. The garment workers at the company had been attempting to unionize to gain better wages and improved working conditions. The factory's management responded by locking the workers into the building. Fabric scraps, oil and hot machines crammed into rooms on the upper floors of the ten- story building quickly unleashed an inferno within the building. With the exits blocked, girls attempted to use the rusted fire escape or jump from windows into the fire department's dry- rotted nets, only to plunge onto the pavement in front of bystanders below. The tragedy was exasperated by the failure of the U. S. The deaths unified female labor reformers of the Progressive era. Michele Anderson, a teacher at John Glenn High School near Detroit, was named 2. National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and HISTORY. Read more about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire here in the TIME Vault. African American men, women, and children who participated in the Great Migration to the north, with suitcases and luggage placed in front, Chicago, 1. Chicago History Museum / Getty Images. The Great Migration Begins (1. By Isabel Wilkerson. In today’s world African Americans are viewed as urban people, but that’s a very new phenomenon: The vast majority of time that African Americans have been on this continent, they’ve been primarily Southern and rural. That changed with the Great Migration, a mass relocation of 6 million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North and West, starting in 1. This leaderless revolution, a response to oppression in the South, was set in motion by the labor shortage in the North during World War I. And once the door opened, a flood of people came. Those who migrated became the advance guard of the Civil Rights movement; they shaped our culture, from music to sports. On the other hand, one of the responses to their presence was fear and hostility. In these big cities that they had hoped would be refuges, they were still blocked from the American dream. The Great Migration was a watershed demographic change in our country’s history—and we’re still living with its effects today. The book is currently being developed into a TV adaption to be executive produced by Shonda Rhimes. Read more about the Great Migration here in the TIME Vault. Kahlil Gibran in 1. Royal Photographic Society / Getty Images. The Prophet Is Published (Sept. By Jennifer Ratner- Rosenhagen. In the aftermath of World War I, the Lebanese- born, Boston- based poet- philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote what would become one of the world’s most translated works of philosophy: The Prophet. This collection of inspirational sermons delivered by a fictional prophet—on love, marriage, work, reason, self- knowledge and ethics—challenged tired orthodoxies and oppressive ideologies. Though Gibran’s exaltation of human individuality, creativity and difference was not entirely original, the book’s success lay in his ability to make his insights feel like revelations. Ever since its publication in 1. The Prophet has been a salve for readers who tried—in good American fashion—to break from conformity. Gibran readers include Woodrow Wilson and American soldiers during World War II (thanks to its selection for the American Services Editions in 1. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash; members of the 1. Salma Hayek. The Prophet taught self- trust amid the buzzing, blooming confusion of modern America. Sometimes it takes a foreigner to speak the voice of Americans’ inner conscience. Jennifer Ratner- Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and the founder of the Intellectual History Group at University of Wisconsin- Madison. Her book, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas, won the John H. Dunning Prize, an award for an outstanding monograph in a subject in U. S. 8, 1. 92. 5)By James Loewen. When the KKK paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C., the headline in the New York Times declared “Sight Astonishes Capital: Robed, but Unmasked Hosts in White Move Along Avenue.” The marchers, the article noted, received “a warm reception.” The parade took place in broad daylight, in the nation’s capital, and most of the participants were from the north. This event symbolizes the Nadir of Race Relations, a terrible era from 1. During this period white Americans became more racist than at any other point in our history, even during slavery. Also during the Nadir, the phenomenon of sundown towns swept the North. These are towns that were for decades—and in some cases still are—all- white on purpose. Among the other terrible legacies of that period are its inaccurate white supremacist histories of everything from Christopher Columbus and U. S. Grant to Woodrow Wilson, and the astounding gap between black and white media family wealth— problems that we are still trying to transcend. James Loewen is professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and the best- selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me. He has received the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies and was the first white recipient of the American Sociological Association's Cox- Johnson- Frazier Award for scholarship in service to social justice. Read original 1. 92. TIME Vault. Thomas Dorsey, pictured circa 1. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images. Thomas Dorsey Invents the Gospel Blues (1. By Jon Butler. In Chicago in 1. African American composer named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had been a nightclub jazz pianist, wrote a song inspired by his wife’s death in childbirth. Its success stimulated an entirely new music industry—the gospel blues. It became a touchstone for the dramatic role that music played in sustaining and forwarding America's Civil Rights movement; Martin Luther King Jr. The gospel blues also brought singers such as Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharp, and the Golden Gate Quartet to prominence and was later foundational for Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, among many others. That tiny, inauspicious moment in 1. American life, ultimately producing musical anthems of powerful personal, moral, and political transformation. Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History & Religious Studies at Yale University, and the current president of the Organization of American Historians. Read TIME's 1. 96. Aretha Franklin singing . The moment Harry Hopkins started work, on May 2. Some critics disapproved of his haste and wanted longer consideration of this federal expenditure. Hopkins responded, famously, “People don’t eat in the long run; they eat every day.” In two hours he spent $5 million dollars, the equivalent of about $7. In addition to putting money into the hands of consumers, it was also a tremendous confidence- raising gesture that said, . It inaugurated a pattern of government action in crises that would otherwise spin out of control. Photo. Quest / Getty Images. FDR Accepts the 1. Democratic Presidential Nomination (June 2. By Jefferson Cowie. The “political equality we once had won,” FDR boomed as he accepted the Democratic nomination for a second presidential term in 1. The government no longer belonged to the people but had been taken hostage by “privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsty for power.” Deep in the Great Depression, Roosevelt promised that his New Deal would recalibrate the balance of power between the people and the “economic royalists.” It was some of the most extraordinary—and fleeting—rhetoric in American presidential history. Yet as a result, working people flocked to the Democratic Party, fostering not only an electoral landslide but also a political coalition that governed the nation for decades to come. Jefferson Cowie teaches at Cornell University. His book Stayin’ Alive: The 1. Last Days of the Working Class received the Parkman Prize for the Best Book in American History. His forthcoming book is The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Read original 1. 93.
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