Oct. 22
We watched an excerpt from the documentary Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. It is available through Films on Demand through the BCC Library:
http://bcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=14935&xtid=36510
(If you are off campus, you will need to log in using your BCC ID barcode).

Image: The Magic Washer–https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.02758/

Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47&page=transcript

Document: John Phelan, “Why the Chinese Should be Excluded.”-http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-empire/james-d-phelan-why-the-chinese-should-be-excluded-1901/

Document: Mary Tape, A Mother Protests the Denial of Equal Education:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=30

Oct. 24
We watched excerpts from New York, 1898-1918,The Power & the People, episode 4 of New York: A Documentary.
http://bcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=14935&xtid=44173
(If you off campus, you will need to log into Films on Demand to access the documentary).

We discussed two memorials to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims

Remember the Triangle–Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial–http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/

Chalk project–http://streetpictures.org/chalk/