San Salvador

Examples of San Salvador in the following topics:

• The Exploration of Christopher Columbus

  • Columbus called the island San Salvador, although the indigenous residents called it Guanahani; in present day, it is known as the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos.
  • No one knows which modern day island in the Bahamas or Turks and Caicos this name corresponds to, but the prime candidates are Samana Cay, Plana Cays, Grand Turk, or San Salvador Island.

• The Expansion of Europe

  • Riding the trade winds westward across the Atlantic Ocean with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, Columbus landed on an island he called San Salvador, in the present-day Bahamas, five weeks after embarking from Spain.

• Art Movements of the 1920s

  • Other American examples can be found in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  • Spanish painter Salvador Dali, best known for his 1931 work, The Persistence of Memory, was one of the most famous practitioners of Surrealism.
  • Salvador Dali's 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory, is one of the most well known examples of Surrealism.

• Central America

  • A similar situation existed for El Salvador; even as tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered by government and government-allied forces in the early 1980s, Reagan stated that El Salvador was making "progress."
  • Army School of the Americas and distributed to thousands of military officers from 11 South and Central American countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama, where the U.S. military was heavily involved in counterinsurgency.
  • Reagan provided controversial support to the right-wing El Salvador government and all branches of the security apparatus throughout his term; he feared a takeover by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the El Salvador Civil War which had begun in 1979.

• The Sand-Lot Incident

  • The Sandlot refers to an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall where Denis Kearney often spoke out against Chinese laborers.
  • During the Long Depression , he became popular by speaking to unemployed people in San Francisco, denouncing the railroad monopoly and immigrant Chinese workers, known as Coolies .
  • In July 1877, when anti-Chinese violence occurred in San Francisco, Kearney joined William Tell Coleman 's vigilante Public Safety Committee as a member of Coleman's "pick handle brigade. " By August 1877, however, Kearney had been elected Secretary of the newly formed Workingmen's Party of California , and often directed violent attacks on Chinese, including denunciations of the powerful Central Pacific Railroad , which had employed them in large numbers.
  • At an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall, known as "The Sandlot", he regularly spoke in front of crowds that numbered as many as 2,000 people.

• Gold Fever in the West

  • A San Francisco newspaper stated, "The whole country... resounds to the sordid cry of gold!
  • The population soared to over 200,000 in 1852, mostly in the gold districts which stretched into the mountains east of San Francisco.
  • San Francisco saw hastily erected housing—often docked ships whose crews had headed for the mines.
  • The wealth from silver, more than from gold, fueled the maturation of San Francisco in the 1860s and helped the rise of some of its wealthiest families, such as that of George Hearst.
  • Between 1847 and 1870, the population of San Francisco exploded from 500 to 150,000.

• The Promotion of Global Human Rights

  • Specific examples include El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and South Africa.

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • Many gay rights groups were founded in Los Angeles and San Francisco, cities that were administrative centers in the network of U.S. military installations and the places where many gay men suffered dishonorable discharges.
  • In 1966, the city became home to the world’s first organization for transsexual people, the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, and in 1967, the Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco was born.
  • The most famous event in the gay rights movement took place not in San Francisco but in New York City.
  • In 1977, Harvey Milk became California’s first openly gay man elected to public office, although his service on San Francisco’s board of supervisors, along with that of San Francisco mayor George Moscone, was cut short when he was killed by disgruntled former city supervisor Dan White.
  • The events varied from a highly political march of three to five thousand in New York and thousands more at parades in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

• Youth Culture and Delinquency

  • In 1967, musician Scott McKenzie's rendition of the song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" brought as many as 100,000 young people from all over the world to celebrate a "Summer of Love" in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
  • San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution; during the Summer of Love, it became a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, new forms of dress, and politics.
  • When people returned home from the Summer of Love, these styles and behaviors spread quickly from San Francisco and Berkeley to many U.S., Canadian, and even European cities.

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • The League was founded in Boston and had branches in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
  • After being forcibly driven from the mines, most Chinese settled in enclaves in cities, mainly San Francisco, and took up low end wage labor such as restaurant work and laundry just to earn enough to live.
  • The San Francisco riot of 1877, also called the Sand-Lot Incident, was a two day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority white population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 24, 1877.
  • Twenty Chinese-owned laundries were destroyed in the violence and San Francisco's Chinese Methodist Mission suffered smashed glass when the mob pelted it with rocks.