James A. Percoco
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228959
- eISBN:
- 9780823234981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228959.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
James Earle Fraser's Lincoln in Jersey City, New Jersey is a thoughtful portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated on a boulder, lost in either meditation or deep thought, ...
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James Earle Fraser's Lincoln in Jersey City, New Jersey is a thoughtful portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated on a boulder, lost in either meditation or deep thought, contemplation. It is possible that the sculptor drew inspiration for seating Lincoln on a boulder from Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Adams Memorial, which Fraser had admired before he undertook his tutelage under his master. There is an air of pensiveness and quiet tension in the piece mixed with a touch of serenity, almost as if Lincoln has finished breathing a sigh and is now centered in calm repose of mind and heart. Standing before Lincoln the Mystic one might imagine Lincoln thinking, “thy will be done versus my will be done”, and like the true mystic embracing the void and silence fully. That is their way. Here it would appear that Lincoln could commune easily in silence with either a Buddhist or Trappist monk.Less
James Earle Fraser's Lincoln in Jersey City, New Jersey is a thoughtful portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated on a boulder, lost in either meditation or deep thought, contemplation. It is possible that the sculptor drew inspiration for seating Lincoln on a boulder from Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Adams Memorial, which Fraser had admired before he undertook his tutelage under his master. There is an air of pensiveness and quiet tension in the piece mixed with a touch of serenity, almost as if Lincoln has finished breathing a sigh and is now centered in calm repose of mind and heart. Standing before Lincoln the Mystic one might imagine Lincoln thinking, “thy will be done versus my will be done”, and like the true mystic embracing the void and silence fully. That is their way. Here it would appear that Lincoln could commune easily in silence with either a Buddhist or Trappist monk.
Donald W. Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043468
- eISBN:
- 9780252052347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043468.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This epilogue shows that Hague v. CIO had a legacy more complex than its reputation as a speech rights victory for workers and others over dictatorial city boss Frank Hague under the Bill of Rights. ...
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This epilogue shows that Hague v. CIO had a legacy more complex than its reputation as a speech rights victory for workers and others over dictatorial city boss Frank Hague under the Bill of Rights. The American Civil Liberties Union and renamed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) immediately split over the decision’s ramifications. Moreover, while the ruling enlarged constitutional protection for the right of public assembly to the benefit of Jehovah’s Witnesses, civil rights demonstrators, and others, it did little to enhance picketing and other “labor speech,” or to shield union organizers from police harassment. And while the decision freed the CIO to organize in Jersey City, it did not destroy Mayor Hague, who accommodated CIO unions and was ousted later due to city politics.Less
This epilogue shows that Hague v. CIO had a legacy more complex than its reputation as a speech rights victory for workers and others over dictatorial city boss Frank Hague under the Bill of Rights. The American Civil Liberties Union and renamed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) immediately split over the decision’s ramifications. Moreover, while the ruling enlarged constitutional protection for the right of public assembly to the benefit of Jehovah’s Witnesses, civil rights demonstrators, and others, it did little to enhance picketing and other “labor speech,” or to shield union organizers from police harassment. And while the decision freed the CIO to organize in Jersey City, it did not destroy Mayor Hague, who accommodated CIO unions and was ousted later due to city politics.
Donald W. Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043468
- eISBN:
- 9780252052347
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043468.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This book contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss ...
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This book contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss Frank Hague from obstructing workers from the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allies in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from meeting in urban public places. The case involved speech and assembly freedoms, rights essential for CIO workers’ organizing efforts, but, as the book shows, these rights were submerged under municipal police powers to preserve public order until the court brought them under federal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment in Hague. Revising the conventional view, the book argues that Hague was more than simply a civil liberties victory for workers over a dictatorial, antilabor city boss. Drawing on new evidence in city archives, CIO records, trial transcripts, newspaper reports, and Jersey City court filings, as well as traditional sources in ACLU records and anti-Hague literature, the book demonstrates that the Hague-versus-CIO controversy emanated more from shifts in the labor movement from craft to industrial unionism, in municipal law, in urban police practices, in the politics of anticommunism and antifascism, and especially in the Supreme Court’s “civil liberties revolution.” With women and African Americans on the periphery, the book concludes, male CIO workers initiated the case, but Hague ultimately benefitted outdoor protests more than it benefitted labor speech.Less
This book contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss Frank Hague from obstructing workers from the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allies in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from meeting in urban public places. The case involved speech and assembly freedoms, rights essential for CIO workers’ organizing efforts, but, as the book shows, these rights were submerged under municipal police powers to preserve public order until the court brought them under federal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment in Hague. Revising the conventional view, the book argues that Hague was more than simply a civil liberties victory for workers over a dictatorial, antilabor city boss. Drawing on new evidence in city archives, CIO records, trial transcripts, newspaper reports, and Jersey City court filings, as well as traditional sources in ACLU records and anti-Hague literature, the book demonstrates that the Hague-versus-CIO controversy emanated more from shifts in the labor movement from craft to industrial unionism, in municipal law, in urban police practices, in the politics of anticommunism and antifascism, and especially in the Supreme Court’s “civil liberties revolution.” With women and African Americans on the periphery, the book concludes, male CIO workers initiated the case, but Hague ultimately benefitted outdoor protests more than it benefitted labor speech.
Jill D. Snider
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781469654355
- eISBN:
- 9781469654379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469654355.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Chapter 3 describes Headen’s life in Jersey City, NJ, from 1903 to 1911, a period in which he worked as a Pullman porter and as a dining car waiter for the Erie Railroad. It documents his life as a ...
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Chapter 3 describes Headen’s life in Jersey City, NJ, from 1903 to 1911, a period in which he worked as a Pullman porter and as a dining car waiter for the Erie Railroad. It documents his life as a trainman, his growing interest in aviation, his frustrations at being locked out of skilled work, and his initial forays into invention. The chapter examines how Headen’s wife, Tena Drye Headen, and other African American migrants active in Lafayette Presbyterian Church and the Railroad Porters’ and Waiters’ Voluntary Subscription Fund, expanded social networks critical to Headen, and on the specific strategies that Headen observed other African American inventors employ to circumvent segregation and raise capital in a time when funding for independent inventors was waning.Less
Chapter 3 describes Headen’s life in Jersey City, NJ, from 1903 to 1911, a period in which he worked as a Pullman porter and as a dining car waiter for the Erie Railroad. It documents his life as a trainman, his growing interest in aviation, his frustrations at being locked out of skilled work, and his initial forays into invention. The chapter examines how Headen’s wife, Tena Drye Headen, and other African American migrants active in Lafayette Presbyterian Church and the Railroad Porters’ and Waiters’ Voluntary Subscription Fund, expanded social networks critical to Headen, and on the specific strategies that Headen observed other African American inventors employ to circumvent segregation and raise capital in a time when funding for independent inventors was waning.
Robert W. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814742990
- eISBN:
- 9780814745045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814742990.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the ...
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This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the widening of streets in Jersey City at a cost of about $1 million, with New York paying half. However, the New York commissioners denied any knowledge of such an agreement. The street-widening controversy was more than just an argument over what negotiating authority the New York commissioners had given to their brethren from across the river or if they had known all along about the commitments made. It also became a debate among the New Jersey commissioners over the true purpose of the agreement with Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague.Less
This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the widening of streets in Jersey City at a cost of about $1 million, with New York paying half. However, the New York commissioners denied any knowledge of such an agreement. The street-widening controversy was more than just an argument over what negotiating authority the New York commissioners had given to their brethren from across the river or if they had known all along about the commitments made. It also became a debate among the New Jersey commissioners over the true purpose of the agreement with Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague.
Robert Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195076370
- eISBN:
- 9780199853786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195076370.003.0055
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The color line was effectively breached the day Jackie Robinson stepped to the plate at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium in the first inning of the Little Giants versus Montreal Royals game in April ...
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The color line was effectively breached the day Jackie Robinson stepped to the plate at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium in the first inning of the Little Giants versus Montreal Royals game in April of 1946. It was a fortuitous game as the Royals won 14–1. Robinson's fiery temperament was effectively on hold and he was advised by Rickey to fight back only with his bat, glove, and flying feet and this he did splendidly, topping almost every hitting average, runs scored, and bases stolen. He was joined as a pioneer by John Wright however; Wright could not stand the pressure and thus succumbed to it. As expected, the move was widely met with disapproval by the major league clubs and some even threatened to ban playing with the Royals.Less
The color line was effectively breached the day Jackie Robinson stepped to the plate at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium in the first inning of the Little Giants versus Montreal Royals game in April of 1946. It was a fortuitous game as the Royals won 14–1. Robinson's fiery temperament was effectively on hold and he was advised by Rickey to fight back only with his bat, glove, and flying feet and this he did splendidly, topping almost every hitting average, runs scored, and bases stolen. He was joined as a pioneer by John Wright however; Wright could not stand the pressure and thus succumbed to it. As expected, the move was widely met with disapproval by the major league clubs and some even threatened to ban playing with the Royals.
Robert W. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814742990
- eISBN:
- 9780814745045
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814742990.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's ...
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Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6-mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in this book about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. The book explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to finally enable its construction. It also introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality and George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals Bridge) the first chief engineer of the project.Less
Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6-mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in this book about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. The book explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to finally enable its construction. It also introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality and George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals Bridge) the first chief engineer of the project.