Jacob Coxey

(noun)

An Ohio businessman who led a march on Washington to protest unemployment. Though the marches were unsuccessful, they did spark political interest in governmental action against unemployment, an issue integral to the New Deal, 40 years later.

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Examples of Jacob Coxey in the following topics:

  • Coxey's Army

    • Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
    • Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
    • Coxey and other leaders of the movement were arrested the next day for walking on the grass of the U.S.

  • German Migration

    • German immigrant John Jacob Astor was the first millionaire in the United States

  • Social Criticism

    • One of the most notable were Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914).
    • Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
    • Jacob Riis documented the hard life encountered by many immigrants and the poor in the city.

  • Colonies in Crisis

    • Following similar frustrations against the rule and policies of James II as the Bostonians, German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of the southern part of the colony of New York and ruled it from 1689 to 1691.

  • Mill Towns and Company Towns

    • "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
    • In January of 1888, Jacob Riis bought a detective camera and went on an expedition to gather images of what life was like in the slums of New York City.
    • The 1890 publication of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives stirred public concern about New York tenements.

  • The Muckrakers

    • How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by photojournalist Jacob Riis, documented the squalid living conditions of New York City slums during the 1880's .

  • Women and Slavery

    • Harriet Jacobs documented her experience with sexual abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

  • The Great Migration and the "Promised Land"

    • This later painting, titled "During World War I there was a great migration north by southern Negroes" by the artist Jacob Lawrence, depicts African-American migration north via abstract images.

  • Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

    • "Muckraking" journalists such as Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Riis exposed corruption in business and government along with rampant inner city poverty.