The Dutch settled and created the colony of New Netherlands. The port city in the area was known as New Amsterdam. When the English took over they changed the name to New York and New York City, to sound more English.
Well if we are talking about voting rights and equality, that would be Martin Luther King. He set equality for black people while Abraham Lincoln had just freed them decades earlier.
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there were a lot of opportunities for jobs in urban areas, especially when big businesses started to come along, and demand for more educated/experienced workers declined.
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