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“Progress Comes to Williamsburg” Exhibit Case
Shown here is the "Progress Comes to Williamsburg" exhibit case for the exhibit "A Most Thriving & Growing Place": Williamsburg Before the Restoration.
This exhibit case features photographs, letters, ledgers, and other publications documenting city government, politics, and the education of children in Williamsburg, Virginia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The following is from the City Government label in the case:
Like people all over the country, the people of Williamsburg enthusiastically embraced a series of civic improvements in the early 1900s. When politicians dragged their feet, mass meetings and civic organizations demanded progress, and the voters passed numerous bond bills. Williamsburg installed sewers, provided municipal water, and built public schools.
The growing number of cars also required government action. The city began regulating auto traffic and paving a few roads. At the urging of Williamsburg resident and state highway commissioner George Coleman, in the 1920s, the city turned Duke of Gloucester Street into a paved boulevard with curbs and a wide median.
The following is from the Educating Children label in this case:
Over the years, numerous private schools existed in Williamsburg. The College had long sponsored a grammar school for white boys and in 1870 built a school on the site of the Governor’s Palace. The “Mattey School” honored Matthew Whaley, the son of Mary Whaley. Her 1742 bequest—which the College received in 1865—funded the school’s construction. Other private academies and small home-based schools provided additional educational opportunities. First Baptist Church sponsored a school for students of color that had 75 enrollees in 1873.
In 1869, Virginia’s new state constitution contained a radical provision: it required that free public schools be available for all the state’s children. Early in 1871, Williamsburg’s new school board hired teachers and rented rooms for public schools. In 1873, it leased the Mattey School as a school for whites (Public School No. 1) and in 1884 built a school for blacks (Public School No. 2). Over the next few decades, the city invested ever-increasing sums in education, building several additional schools, hiring more teachers, expanding the school year, and offering an ever-more rigorous education. Construction peaked with the opening of the Williamsburg High School for whites in 1921 on the Palace Green and the James City County Training School for African Americans in 1924 at Nicholson and Botetourt Streets.
Despite the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal education was constitutional, the school board regularly provided fewer resources for the black schools. African-American parents, determined to provide their children with the best education possible, organized the Williamsburg School Improvement League in the late 1800s. The League raised money for books and other resources and lobbied for new facilities. Its greatest success came with the James City County Training School, built with money from the state, northern philanthropists, the school board, and Williamsburg’s black residents. The JCCTS offered kindergarten through grade 11 to students from Williamsburg, James City County, and York County, and it became a center for the black community.
The following is from the Right to Vote label in this case.
After the Civil War, African-American men gained the right to vote. By the late 1800s, they formed a large percentage of the voters in Williamsburg and James City County, strongly supporting the Republican Party. Several won election to public office, with Daniel Norton and the Rev. John Dawson serving in the General Assembly, barber John Cary on the city council, and merchant Samuel Harris on the school board. Throughout the South, however, white Democrats regained power in the late 1800s and found ways to deny people of color the right to vote despite the Fifteenth Amendment. In Virginia, the constitution of 1902 capped efforts to disfranchise black voters through poll taxes and literacy tests. As a result, the number of registered black voters in Williamsburg fell from 192 to 36.
Even as most African-American men lost the right to vote, women suffragists campaigned to gain that right. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote. As seen in the voter lists below, white women eagerly paid their poll taxes and registered to vote as the 1920 presidential election approached. Politicians began trying to appeal to the new voters.
See swem.wm.edu/scrc/ExhibitsatSwem.cfm for more information about past and present exhibits produced by the Special Collections Research Center.
Tampa Bay International Auto Show – Driving on the Wheels of Desire!
Article by Rickcarstens
Cashing in on the rising demand for luxury cars around the world, event planners have shifted their focus from just the industrial utility vehicles to privately-owned concept cars, which have been creating news for quite some time now. Luxury cars with use-it-to-believe-it features have captured the imagination of the rich and the famous all over the world. Even the middle income group customers save their hard earned pennies to own their dream car. It’s almost like a once in a lifetime experience for the average car owners. Is it any wonder that car shows like that of the Tampa Bay International Auto Show, are rocking the market all over? Of course, not! Ask the proud owners of any concept car or specially designed car, and you’ll get an idea of exactly how car-crazy people can become, if they have access to the right amount of resources to support their buying decisions. Adding fuel to the fire are the new designs that make news every once in a while, launched by one or the other top car manufacturers in the world. Brands that have the most impressive recalls among the customers as well as those which are rising up the ladder towards reaching this coveted position, come up with attractive bodies, durable interiors and alluring features that play a significant role in converting the prospective into clients. This is yet another point to be added to the kitty of well-targeted trade fairs such as Tampa Bay International Auto Show, which aim mostly at consolidating the present buyers as well as creating new target markets worldwide. Now, that the much dreaded downturn has left the market’s beloveds with a little breathing space so that they can indulge into a bit of shopping for cars, here and there, the several auto show organizers can also breathe easy! After all, marketing for luxury cars also requires a congenial economic environment, which is only possible of the customers have enough resources to spare. The importance of a trade fair like Tampa Auto Show has seen a twofold increase in the recent times, more so, with the evolution of the concepts and designs. It’s a whole new world of possibilities that you can now get your hands on! So much so that even glittery award programs are designed to encourage the new innovators who take a lot of trouble in coming up with better and brighter features. High profile clients are invited and sponsors are roped in to add the zing to the entire event. When it comes to sports and luxury cars, the neighbors, now, are no longer prepared to don on the envious garb any more, in fact, they would love to bring the owners of such chariots to shame, and, hence is assured the dazzling-bright future of all car shows to come!
Auto Resources question by chess_man: What US industries trade the most with Europe?
I would to see a breakdown by category (e.g. Food, Auto, Computers, Natural Resources, etc.) and by year.
Auto Resources best answer:
Answer by simplicitus
So, go look at the data. Why are you bothering us? Haven’t you learned to do simple web searches yet?
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0003.html
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/bilateral-relations/countries/united-states/
You are talking about the two most record-conscious economic agents in the world. There is plenty of data available.
