... Jews, as was the neighborhood. Dorothea had never been to the Lower East Side before, and the crowded noisy streets, sweatshops, and miserable living and working conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks ... Francisco, California. There, Dorothea not only took on a new name--adopting her mother's maiden name "Lange" and dropping Nutzhorn--but began a new life. Living at the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), Lange found a job at a photo finishing shop on her second day in San Francisco. She made frie...

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... Jews, as was the neighborhood. Dorothea had never been to the Lower East Side before, and the crowded noisy streets, sweatshops, and miserable living and working conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks ... Francisco, California. There, Dorothea not only took on a new name--adopting her mother's maiden name "Lange" and dropping Nutzhorn--but began a new life. Living at the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), Lange found a job at a photo finishing shop on her second day in San Francisco. She made frie...

• Word Count: 2899
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

... city was predominantly white. One-million immigrants entered NYC in 1907. In 1920, a census was taken of the city that showed the highest number of residents living in Manhattan, then Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and then Richmond. In 1891, Ellis Island was in operation to screen immigrants for diseases and to see ... white people in attacking the blacks. Rents in black communities were raised and the property was often neglected by the landlords, which left black people living in run-down neighborhoods at high prices; it was their only choice. Harlem in New York City, was designed to be...

• Word Count: 4369
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... tenements9. These tenements were run by slum lords who packed as many people into a room as they could and charged more rent than most of those people could reasonably afford. Below is an excerpt from an article in The North American Review titled New York Tenements written published in 1893; " . . . The smallest toddler in the ward could not swing his ... the summer of 1992. The 50 lots unearthed on the block were mostly backyards that had been enclosed within tenement walls later on. This showed how cramped and unsanitary the living conditions were. It also did not allow for an easy c...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate