The northeast. So on the far left one of the earlier monopoly players was rex tugwell. He later joined fdrs cabinet but was also a teacher at columbia and in the center you have ernest angel who was a National Chairman of the aclu. He had been playing the game here in new york and his son roger angel is a writer for the new yorker if youre a great narrative sports journalism fan. Scott nearing plays the game, he was a professor at wharton who was involved in a very important Academic Freedom case. Some consider him to be the father of the green movement, so he was far ahead of his time on that one. He probably would have gotten a kick out of brooklyn. Art and delaware is a single tax colony where the arden, delaware, was frequented by upton sinclair, and his house in arden was called the jungleo which is a ridiculous pun because his book was called the jungle, and there was this salacious sex scandal that took place. It was played at wharton, harvard, it was played everywhere. So in 19
In the military because someone is looking at Something Else and they are making a decision based on their own understanding of race still anxiously part of this. So he is sent to the old west, this is 19 is there in the 1940s. Basically this is a moment where they are priding themselves over 100 years of being this really why university and here is kerry murphy and hes having the time of his life, he is dancing with white women, he is running on the track team and he even participates in a protest against Theodore Bilbo who was the fanatic segregationist to calm the cutest bear. I think that part of it was in 1944 and 1945. You know he is described by people as being arrogant, a loud talker, its not like you trying to keep a low profile. Hes like ,com,com ma i am here, im going to have the time of my life as a student at ole miss. Interestingly when James Meredith tries to integrate old men. Saying that they are fighting a battle but they have no idea that they lost and they have grea
Lucky to be so spry in our 80s. He is an expert in all of this. He was an economist before this. He had a good idea of enhenry george and how it all came together. He knew lizzie magie existed but the deeper stuff was something i spent a lot of time on. There were things we would not need to be interested in. Like the quakers and the history of Atlantic City was in the book and what it was like living there. He lived in berkeley in the 70s so he would not have to zoom out and look at the Political Climate there. A lot of the character developing and a lot of the details were in the depositions but didnt make it into the brief. Than were interesting but not part of the timeline he put together. Flushing out character and the lizzie magie and history board game pieces. The first half of the book was less reliant on the documents. [inaudible conversation] his conviction through the whole thing is amazing. Turning down the selling offer which is a big turning point in the book. His backgro
In 1935. So what the plan is i will talk a little about the history of the game and open it up to question and answer so i am not just hamming and you can get insight on hopefully what you think is useful. Most people are familiar with the red hotels greenhouses and mr. Monopoly. Most people saying Parker Brothers. The idea is at americas darkest hour he makes this game and puts the houses on atlanta boulevard for a happier time. You can see the monopoly patton looks like what we know as monopoly today. Tokens, board, property. This version of the story has been on the website for years. Some people believe daro was the inspiration for early characters. The only story is not true. It started out originally with lizzie magie. She had a patton for a type writer gadget and was an outspoken feminist and had views on this. This is before women could vote. Her father was james mcgee who wasnt just a newspaper owner but travelled with lincoln during the lincolndouglas debates and was around f
Up he says i think that that is a milan terrace, which is the term that they used at the time and the father just looks at him and says okay, that is actually not true. He looks at him in such indignity. But of course its because of his stature. It is because of the way and shes doing things that white women do. She is a homemaker. And it is all of these things that make her story believable. The same as with lm it is the thing that she does that makes are believable as a white man that otherwise she would not be able to pass. So in terms of originality i definitely think that there were more opportunities to pass in the south. Particularly in the antebellum period. Just because there was more racial mixture and also because there was a much larger black population in the south during that time. And because it was so large it has to be larger than that. And it has to be about 90 of blacks and so there would have been more passion in the south during a period of time. Because there woul