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- 4551: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... looked at each other as if saying, “wait, just wait.” Surprisingly, the initiation came from a young, black girl who had to travel several miles to attend a segregated school even though she lived right next door to a white elementary school. This famous court case, known as Brown vs. Board of Education, determined that segregation in public schools based on race was unconstitutional. This decision was the result ...
- 4552: The Lost Generation
- ... horrors beyond belief in a matter of years, which is ten times worse than a normal man experiences his whole life. This generation of men, from 1914-1918, who fought in a great war and lived in constant fear of their last breathe, while we enjoy parties, the freedom of being a teenager, and able just to kick back and enjoy life at its prime. This is . As tensions grew in ...
- 4553: Rosa Parks
- Mcclain 1 The Summary , born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 in was raised in an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery, where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband, Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932. She worked as a clerk, an ...
- 4554: Reconstruction
- ... Finally, many stubborn Southerners refused to accept tax programs which would provide funds for the social services needed to rebuild their economy after the war. As a result, too many white and black farmers still lived in poverty. During , the most glaring political consequence of the Radical Republican efforts was that a great majority of Southern whites sided with the Democratic party. Southerners saw the Republican party as the party of ...
- 4555: Nikola Tesla
- ... still stands out as the one that saved her the most time. So this essay will delve into the era of the 1880's and focus on one of the most important inventors that ever lived, . Many business machines were patented before patented the alternating-current "electromagnetic motor" in 1888 (while the popular Thomas Edison was stubbornly clinging to direct-current motors), but soon more and more inventors were realizing this ...
- 4556: John L Lewis
- ... L. Lewis started life in Lucas County, Iowa February 12, 1880 the son of Thomas Lewis, a coal miner and policeman. John was welsh born. In the 1880's and the 1890's their family lived in a company owned shanty with an outdoor privy. Whet John was in his teens they moved to Des Moines. That is where John attended high school, completing almost all of his four years of ...
- 4557: Frederick Douglass
- ... This time he was sent to Baltimore to live with Hugh Auld. Auld was the brother of Aaron Anthony’s son-in-law, Thomas Auld. Hugh was the owner of a plantation and with him lived his wife Sophia and their son Thomas. Frederick and Thomas were about the same age and Douglass became his playmate as well as his guardian. Like he did earlier with Lucretia and Daniel at the ...
- 4558: First Amendment
- ... and advocate curtailment of production of things and products, to wit, ordnance and ammunition, necessary and essential to the prosecution of the war.” All five defendants were born in Russia, on the average they lived from five to ten years in America and still didn’t apply for naturalization. All of them were intelligent and had a good amount of schooling. Four of them testified as witnesses on their own ...
- 4559: Confederate States Of America
- ... the federal government dropped the case against him. From 1870 to 1878 he engaged in a number of unsuccessful business enterprises; and from 1878 until his death in New Orleans, on December 6, 1889, he lived near Biloxi, Mississippi. His grave is in Richmond, Virginia. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881). Soon after his inauguration as provisional president on February 18, 1861, Davis appointed his first ...
- 4560: Civil Rights
- ... was unprecedented. The justices rule of “the segregation in the public schools was inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional” was a slap in the face to traditionalists. The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that segregating southerners lived by was now dead. The justices now insisted that desegregation must go ahead with “all deliberate speed.” Following up the breakthrough court decision, came the Acts, the first passed since Reconstruction. The Act ...
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