Where the River Bends

From Reconstruction Through the Great Depression (1x2)

Data di messa in onda: Giu 06, 2015

•Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, and Northern Kentucky’s prominence in Kentucky politics during the post-Civil War years •the growth of African-American communities and the influx of new immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Italy •the industrial boom of the late 1800s, including the stories of Barney Kroger, Baron Frederic Emile D’Erlanger, the Stewart Iron Works, Newport Steel, and breweries •the election and assassination of William Goebel, the last governor elected from Northern Kentucky •life in the region at the turn of the 20th century, including such diversions as steamboats, Devou Park, Coney Island, Ludlow Lagoon, Latonia Race Track, and Dayton Beach •World War I and the anti-German backlash •Prohibition, the Great Depression, the coming of bootleggers and organized crime, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937