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" ... He sold his store and land in Perry and moved about 80 miles to Tulsa in 1905, taking the second major risk of his young life. He bought a large tract of land on the north side of the Frisco train tracks. On a barren plot, he started to map out a city for upwardly mobile Blacks, who, much like himself, were looking for opportunity. After emancipation, Blacks who had followed the Native American “Trail of Tears” as slaves, could now claim land. They migrated westward, through Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, and then blazed Gurley’s path through the Oklahoma territory in the 1890s. ... "
" ... Which brings me to that headline: that the economic emancipation of women is the most important single fact of the past century. That past really was a different place. We can argue if we want to about whether that economic emancipation is complete (the famous womens' 77 cents to mens' dollar, or is it a motherhood pay gap and so on) but let's leave that for another time. What is obviously and glaringly true is that women are much freer economically than they were a century ago. Wages for women back then were distinctly lower than they were for men. And no, this wasn't particularly discrimination: some large part of what most people were hired for was physical muscle. Men have more of this so they got paid more. There were also strong social norms: I'm not quite sure of pre-WWI America but in my native UK the only respectable jobs for an adult woman (ie, something that the bourgeois would be happy to see their daughters go into) were nursing or teaching. And as a result of this paucity of choice the wages were low in both professions (there's a strong truth to the point that the rising wages of both teachers and nurses in recent decades are the result of their being free to work in other sectors these days). ... "
" ... “In London, I think there has been a mood change since Covid-19 as well,” he says, noting that the want for sustainable design may not come just from the forward-thinkers of the design world anymore but, a general social shift. “People have had extremely busy, nonstop lives but now, their powerful levels of consumption have been cut by lockdown. A lot of people found emancipation in the simplification of their lives.” ... "
" ... “The Maroons were the catalysts of emancipation; we were the leaders of liberation. That’s what we stand for,” he says. “Our treaty is built on sustainability and perpetuity and our only path to development is through economics and commerce built on those same principles.” ... "