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Simon Baruch
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Simon Baruch was a Prussian-American physician, scholar, and the foremost advocate of the urban public bathhouse to benefit public health in the United States. An American Civil War veteran of the Con
Dr. Simon Baruch
Dr. Simon Baruch
Report on public baths and public comfort stations by the Mayor's committee of New York City (1897) (14591088910)
Report on public baths and public comfort stations by the Mayor's committee of New York City (1897) (14591088910)
Free Public Baths 538 East 11th Street
Free Public Baths 538 East 11th Street
Asser Levy Recreation Center
Asser Levy Recreation Center
Carpetbagger
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In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the A
Simon Baruch
…robes and regalia of a Ku Klux Klan member. Simon's Klan activities became a point of pride for Bernard, in that he approved of the Klan's opposition to carpetbaggers and scalawags and believed it did not oppose Jews, Catholics, or free African-Americans. In late 1865 Baruch went to New York City, where he worked as…
1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger
1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger
A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, the day Horatio Seymour, a Democrat, will s
A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, the day Horatio Seymour, a Democrat, will supposedly become president. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. The cartoonist had actual local politicians in mind. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015)
Historical marker in Colfax, Louisiana that celebrates the Colfax massacre (a mass murder of dozens of African Americans) as "the end of carpetbag mis
Historical marker in Colfax, Louisiana that celebrates the Colfax massacre (a mass murder of dozens of African Americans) as "the end of carpetbag misrule in the South." Erected in 1950, the sign was removed in 2021.