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.

1. Mass Culture & Discrimination Chapter 16, Section 3 and 4

2. Today… Popular ways to spend leisure time Spread of mass culture through ads Ways African Americans were discriminated against

3. Participation 1. What do you like to do in your spare time? - Do you like to watch any sports? - Do you like to go shopping anywhere? - Do you ever ride a bicycle? 2. How would you be affected if you never got to do any of these things?

4. Escaping Work Amusement Parks Coney Island World’s Columbian Expedition

5. Bicycling

6. Sports Boxing Baseball Tennis

7. Mass Products Aspirin Hershey’s Coca-cola

8. Mass Shopping Beginning of department store Marshall Field Specialized departments Bargain bins Appealed to women

9. Mass Newspapers Began sensationalizing stories Joseph Pulitzer competed with William Randolph Hearst Click to watch Newsies clip (4:45)

10. Advertising to the Masses Ads posted everywhere Billboards, houses, rocks

11. Advertising to the Masses Catalogs Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward

12. Participation #2 Why do you think newspapers took the approaches they did? Consider some of the various changes taking place at this time. How did mail-order catalogs and advertising contribute to the growth of mass culture?

13. Discrimination

14. Participation #3 Everybody stand up! Bullion, deter, denigrate, malady $5 Grandfather born in Sandwich

15. Voting Restrictions Literacy test Poll tax Grandfather clause

16. Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws : meant to segregate white and black Americans What kinds of places were segregated?

17. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson Decision of the Supreme Court: Separate but equal accommodations are legal

18. Assignment Chapter 16, Section 3 worksheet