"City Beautiful" Movement
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The Temperance Movement addressed urban problems in the late 1800s.
Many African Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North.
Some presidents were progressive such as Taft, Wilson, and most famously Teddy Roosevelt The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. The frontier had been tamed, great cities and businesses developed, and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the new wealth, prestige, and optimism. Efforts to improve society were not new to the United States in the late 1800s. A major push for change, the First Reform Era, occurred in the years before the Civil War and included efforts of social activists to reform working conditions, and humanize the treatment of mentally ill people and prisoners. educated middle class people who wanted to better urban conditions and protect consumers
President Johnson's administration established the Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to help low income families secure housing. The department was founded in September of 1965.
help Native Americans living in urban areas
"City Beautiful" Movement
City beautiful movement
AIM first focused on Indians' urban problems, then focused on Indians rights. Novanet
AIM first focused on Indians' urban problems, then focused on Indians' rights.
1965
Urban growth is the rate of growth of an urban population. It is different to urbanization which is the process by which there is an increase in proportion of a population living in places classified as urban: the movement from a rural to urban area.
urban to rural.
The Asian American movement was driven largely by student activists invigorated by anti-Vietnam war and black power movements. Challenging stereotypes about Asian "passivity" and rejecting labels such as "oriental," Asian American activists mobilized this new consciousness to demand an end to racist hiring practices, biased school curricula, demeaning media stereotypes, residential discrimination, and the gentrification of historically Asian American neighborhoods. And even though it was mostly a youth movement, it could be argued that the Asian American movement transformed older community institutions, created new ones, and dramatically advanced the position of Asian American power in American urban politics.
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