:New Orleans, LO Homer Plessy

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” “We are all Americans, not only by birth & by citizenship…and ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.”

Eighth Wonder of the World 1883 Oldest suspension bridge in the US. Connects Brooklyn to Manhattan

The "Five and Dime" store, as my grandma called it, was a fun place for a kid and an inexpensive place to get some toys. I remember my grandma taking me there and buying me Army men and a sticker book to bring back to her house, and we often had lunch there – a grilled cheese sandwich and a Coke was the perfect lunch for me. Woolworths was the first shopping experience for a lot of kids who took their allowance or whatever change they could gather. It introduced them to the world of consumerism. It was around when shopping seemed like a treat Utica, NY 1960 Greensboro NC sit-ins

George Eastman Rolled Film 1884, Kodak Camera 1888

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“First in Flight” Kitty Hawk, NC 1903; 120 feet  miles  1920 airmail

10 story Wainwright Building St.Louis, Missouri Louis Sullivan “Father of Modernism” “Father of Skyscrapers”

Frank Lloyd Wright “organic style”, expansive, open, horizontal

Flatiron Building 1902 NY, New York Daniel Burnham “Make no little plans”

Chicago as the “White City” 400 th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The worlds finest green spaces NY City, Central Park Biltmore Estate, NC Druid Hills Neighborhood Ponce de Leon Ave.

Producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but months later was retitled for its world premiere in New York. The film was based on former N.C. Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play, Controversial Racist “Landmark Am. film masterpiece” Groundbreaking