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In June 1892, workers at the Andrew Carnegie-owned steel plant went on strike.
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The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge was built over a thousand feet into open ocean.
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Writer Pete Hamill talks about New York before, during, and after construction of the WTC.
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The streets and buildings of Chicago had to be raised to accommodate a new sewage system.
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Engineers plan a pipe system to deliver clean water to Chicago from Lake Michigan.
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Improvements in elevators and the creation of structural steel made skyscrapers possible.
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Lynching was a danger African-American men faced in the South.
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The opening minutes of a 1960 film by a pro-segregation commission in Mississippi.
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In the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans moved North.
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