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Through the Lens the National Child Labor Committee
Nancy TaylorAmerican Institute for History Education
Volusia, Florida 2012
Florida Standard
• SS.912.A.3.12 Compare how different nongovernmental organizations and progressives worked to shape public policy, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life.
1870 census recorded 750,000 children working in the mines, mills, streets, fields,
and factories.
The census in 1900 recorded 2,000,000 children.
Businessman, ASA G. Candler, one of Coca Cola’s founders said, "The most beautiful sight that we see is the child at labor. As early as he may get at labor the more beautiful, the more useful does his life get to be.”
http: //inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/ss/coke_ads.htm
http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/dynamic/press_center/All-Entries/55082/press_kit_image.html
April 25, 1904Mass Meeting Carnegie Hall New York City
Attended by men and women concerned about the plight of working children
National Child Labor Committee formed to gain support of prominent Americans
andTo identify the extend and scope
of the problem
http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/history.html
1907 NCLC was chartered by an
Act of Congress
They quickly began to rally support and move toward action and advocacy
1908 NCLC hired Lewis Wickes Hine
Budding anthropologist and photographer
Son of a tailor from WisconsinFormer school teacher
“His photographs would awaken the consciousness of the nation, and change the reality of life for millions of impoverished, undereducated children”
National Child Labor Organizationhttp://www.nationalchildlabor.org/history.html
1912 NCLC achieved one of its first goals
The establishment of a Children’s Bureau in both U.S. Department of Commerce
and U. S. Department of Labor
http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/history.html
1910 -1920NCLC worked for passage of state and federal
legislation to ban most forms of child labor
Promoted compulsory education in all states
Published and disseminated the photographs of Lewis Hine
http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/history.html
Lewis Hine PhotographsDisplayed in Exhibits
Shared at Public Meetings
Seen at Lectures accompanied by lantern slides
Plastered on building and post as Broadsides (posters)
Step Back in TimeNational Child Labor Committee
(Early 1900s)
Your Job: Create a Broadside using Lewis Hine photographs to dramatize the plight of working children
Your Objective: To move people to action - to bring an end to child labor
DirectionsAnalyze all of the photographs in the packet Choose 6 photographs that you believe best tell the story of child labor and impact your
audience
Decide what is the “message” of your Broadside? What are you trying to tell people?
Use the Broadside Worksheet Packet to guide you as you create your Broadside Create a title for your broadside. Determine the order and arrangement of the photographs for your display.
Create a title for your Broadside.
Write an introduction that gives direction to the broadside message.
Write a final statement that gives a clear evaluation of the issues of child labor makes a call to action.
Create your Broadside.
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