Frederick Law Olmsted

(noun)

American journalist, public administrator, and landscape designer, popularly considered the father of American landscape architecture; famous for codesigning many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.

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Examples of Frederick Law Olmsted in the following topics:

  • Middle Class

    • Northerners such as Frederick Law Olmsted, who traveled in and wrote about the 1850s South, through the early-twentieth-century historians such as William E.
    • Frederick Law Olmsted traveled in and wrote about the 1850s South

  • Outdoor Recreation

    • Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822–August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.
    • In 1883, Olmsted established what is considered to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm in Brookline, Massachusetts.
    • It is now the restored Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
    • Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux developed what came to be known as the "Greensward Plan," which was selected as the winning design.
    • Olmsted began executing their plan almost immediately.

  • Popular Culture

    • New York's Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.

  • Plain Folk of the Old South

    • Frederick Law Olmsted (a Northerner who traveled throughout and wrote about the 1850s South) and historians such as William E.

  • The White City, Chicago, and the World Columbian Exposition

    • Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted designed the exposition as a prototype of their vision of an ideal city.

  • Women and the War

    • Directed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this organization enlisted thousands of volunteers across the North.

  • Black and White Abolitionism

    • Garrison's efforts to recruit eloquent spokesmen led to the discovery of ex-slave Frederick Douglass [], who eventually became a prominent activist in his own right.
    • Using an argument based upon Natural Law and a form of social contract theory, they said that slavery existed outside of the Constitution's scope of legitimate authority and therefore should be abolished.
    • Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), a former slave whose memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), became bestsellers which aided the cause of abolition.

  • From Gradualism to Abolition

    • By 1805, most Northern states had passed laws calling for either immediate or gradual abolition.
    • Those enslaved in Pennsylvania before the 1780 law went into effect remained enslaved for life.
    • New Jersey's gradual abolition law freed future children of slaves at birth, but those enslaved before the passage of the gradual abolition law remained enslaved for life.
    • Another camp, led by Lysander Spooner, Gerrit Smith, and eventually Frederick Douglass, considered the Constitution to be an antislavery document.
    • Garrison's efforts to recruit eloquent spokesmen from within the African-American community led him to Frederick Douglass, who was a prominent activist in his own right.

  • African American Migration

    • To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
    • Indeed, Frederick Douglass was a critic of the movement.

  • The Spread of Segregation

    • Prominant African-American leaders, such as Frederick Douglass, advocated for voting rights laws and against the racism in the south.
    • Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
    • Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
    • When the laws of racial segregation were enacted at the end of the 19th century, they became known as Jim Crow laws.
    • Summarize the voting restrictions and Jim Crow laws implemented during Reconstruction.