Mary Rogers' Neighborhood

Mose, popular figure of the Bowery fireman and the man about town from before the Civil War. These fellows were also sometimes gang members - in this case laddies born in America who fought Irish immigrants from 5 Points

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Jonah's cognitive map offers an angle on the effects of Prohibition emphasizing how banning alcohol made drinking and other "crimes" popular. Temperance supporters probably never thought they would create more crime and criminals by banning drink, but it seems that they did. Illegal bars, illegal distilleries, bootlegging businesses and the rise of the powerful underground organization called the Mafia all stemmed from the outlawing of the sale of strong drink.

Amanda's cognitive map of Prohibition shows the longing for what is now forbidden, a drink. It turned out that it was not very difficult to obtain whiskey, wine or bathtub gin, if you were willing to break the new law to get it.

Jonah's Map shows the paradox of making alcohol illegal. Now law-breaking creates a new kind of respectability. He showed it as a ladder where crime makes a new kind of status.

Arielle's Cognitive map showed a sequence of the Prohibition Movement. Things did not happen the way supporters of the law banning alcohol hoped. Instead, it made drinking cool, and women started drinking and going to jazz clubs.

KATE did the CHAIN of ALCOHOL cognitive map above.

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During the Civil War, prejudice against African Americans was visible in racist cartoons published in the popular press. One fear centered on what would happen if the two races were to intermarry. Of course, everyone knew by looking around at the variety of complexions that people were already making love across racial lines. But the topic was a big taboo. "Amalgamation" was the word used for this fear.

Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence emphasized his meaning to the tradition of African American political history in his series "The Legend of John Brown" part of many modernist history themed works he created in the 1930s to the 1980s.

By the 1930s, Brown was even deemed worthy of government-funded imagery such as this large mural in the state house at Topeka, Kansas by John Steuart Curry.

The image of John Brown as a saintly figure, blessing African American people, especially children was part of the 19th century mythologizing of the antislavery movement. It ignored any inconvenient material about the poorly planned actions at Harper's Ferry.

Broadside for a meeting in a textile town, north of Boston, Mass. Northern antislavery activists reacted to Harper's Ferry with protests, criticizing the execution, and praising John Brown as a martyr. This laid the foundation for many images of him as a hero, including the famous Civil War song.

A dageurrotype of John Brown, before he became notorious. In this period, he was helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada, in upstate NY.

A small family on the way to Haiti from France lost their father and returned to Paris. The little girls were grabbed by the dress and thrown in the lifeboat. Their pregnant mother Juliette Laroche was left in the US with no resource, two small children, until some other French-speaking passengers led them to some help at St. Vincent's Hospital. Juliette's feet were frozen. They had switched boats to the Titanic from the liner La France because they learned that children were not allowed to dine with parents on that boat. This family were the only passengers of Afro-Caribbean origins on the ship. The manifest of the Carpathia rescue ship lists quite a few passengers from Syria, a reminder that there were more than the New York's social elite traveling on April 14, 1912.