The Prophet taught self-trust amid the buzzing, blooming confusion of modern America. Gibran readers include Woodrow Wilson and American soldiers during World War II (thanks to its selection for the American Services Editions in 1943) Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash members of the 1960s counterculture and now Salma Hayek. Ever since its publication in 1923, The Prophet has been a salve for readers who tried-in good American fashion-to break from conformity. Though Gibran’s exaltation of human individuality, creativity and difference was not entirely original, the book’s success lay in his ability to make his insights feel like revelations. This collection of inspirational sermons delivered by a fictional prophet-on love, marriage, work, reason, self-knowledge and ethics-challenged tired orthodoxies and oppressive ideologies. In the aftermath of World War I, the Lebanese-born, Boston-based poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote what would become one of the world’s most translated works of philosophy: The Prophet. Read more about the Great Migration here in the TIME Vault
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The book is currently being developed into a TV adaption to be executive produced by Shonda Rhimes. Isabel Wilkerson is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer of The Warmth of Other Suns, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities and the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize, among other honors. The Great Migration was a watershed demographic change in our country’s history-and we’re still living with its effects today. In these big cities that they had hoped would be refuges, they were still blocked from the American dream. On the other hand, one of the responses to their presence was fear and hostility. Those who migrated became the advance guard of the Civil Rights movement they shaped our culture, from music to sports. And once the door opened, a flood of people came. This leaderless revolution, a response to oppression in the South, was set in motion by the labor shortage in the North during World War I. That changed with the Great Migration, a mass relocation of 6 million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North and West, starting in 1915. In today’s world African Americans are viewed as urban people, but that’s a very new phenomenon: The vast majority of time that African Americans have been on this continent, they’ve been primarily Southern and rural. Read more about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire here in the TIME Vault
Michele Anderson, a teacher at John Glenn High School near Detroit, was named 2014 National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and HISTORY.
The deaths unified female labor reformers of the Progressive era. government to protect its citizens who were working in deplorable conditions, but it was difficult for anyone who saw the corpses lined up on sidewalks waiting for identification to deny the need for labor reform and improved fire safety equipment. The tragedy was exasperated by the failure of the U.S.
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With the exits blocked, girls attempted to use the rusted fire escape or jump from windows into the fire department’s dry-rotted nets, only to plunge onto the pavement in front of bystanders below. Fabric scraps, oil and hot machines crammed into rooms on the upper floors of the ten-story building quickly unleashed an inferno within the building. The factory’s management responded by locking the workers into the building. The garment workers at the company had been attempting to unionize to gain better wages and improved working conditions. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girls on March 25, 1911, in New York City.
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