This document summarizes aspects of mass culture and discrimination in the late 19th/early 20th century United States. It describes the rise of popular leisure activities like sports and shopping. It also outlines how advertising, newspapers, and mail order catalogs contributed to the spread of mass culture. Finally, it discusses legalized discrimination against African Americans, including voting restrictions and Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in public places according to the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.