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- 1791: William Lloyd Garrison
- William Lloyd Garrison Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-79), American abolitionist, who founded the influential antislavery newspaper The Liberator. Garrison was born December 10, 1805, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Indentured at the age of 14 to the owner of the Newburyport Herald, he became an expert ... under the pseudonym Aristides, in the Herald and other newspapers, he attempted to arouse Northerners from their apathy on the question of slavery in the U.S. In 1829 Garrison entered into partnership with the American antislavery agitator Benjamin Lundy to publish a monthly periodical, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, in Baltimore, Maryland. Lundy believed in gradual emancipation, and Garrison at first shared his views; but he soon became convinced that ... him for libel; he was fined, and, lacking funds to pay the fine, was jailed. After his release from prison Garrison dissolved his partnership with Lundy and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolitionist, Isaac Knapp, Garrison launched The Liberator in Boston in 1831; the newspaper became one of the most influential journals in the United States . Garrison was also a pacifist and involved in other reform ...
- 1792: Jackie Robinson
- ... 50 years. On October 23, 1945, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Montreal Royals that would eventually bring him to the Brooklyn Dodgers in the spring of 1947. This made him the first African American in modern organized baseball. Jackie Robinson went to UCLA where he became an All-American in football and basketball. Robinson is still the only UCLA Bruin to letter in four sports: football, basketball, baseball, and track. Baseball was his weakest sport, but he played it professionally because the NBA and ... win only if we can convince the world that I am doing this because youre a great ballplayer, and a fine gentleman, said Ricky. Jackie Robinson had become a great leader for the African American community and essentially passed the torch for other black players. Teams saw how successful other teams were with black players so they picked up the pace and started to sign black players. There were ...
- 1793: Vietnam Veteran
- ... even find any quotes from the thousands of GI's stationed in Vietnam. In fact most Americans haven't and never will hear these detailed, factual, and straightforward tales that depict what over 400,000 American soldiers and Vietnamese have personally witnessed, felt, and encountered in a country so far away. In the American curriculum, students instead receive a very watered down, dehumanized, and impersonal account of one of the most controversial times in American history. A history where feelings are replaced by dates, human casualties are replaced by statistics, and stories by the soldiers that gave their lives are summarized into general events and mass-produced summarizations. Having ...
- 1794: Civil War
- ... Civil War For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian American from ...
- 1795: The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds.
- The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds. The United States, created by blending or melting many cultures together into one common man, known as an American. ³Modern communication and transportation accelerate mass migrations from one continent . . . to the United States (Schlesinger 21). Ethnic and racial diversity was bound to happen in the American society. As immigration began to explode, . . . a cult of ethnicity erupted both between non Anglo whites and among nonwhite minorities. (22). Until recently, the only country who has made a multiethnic society work, was the ... in America ³ . . . individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men. Is this still true? The creation of the U.S. . . . was not to preserve old cultures but to forge a new, American culture." (Schlesinger 22). In the 20th century, the melting pot is not working, and the whole idea is under attack (Evans 76). The United States has changed from a melting pot to a vast ...
- 1796: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Properly Acknowledged by Ralph Waldo Emerson certainly took his place in the history of American Literature . He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age. Romantic thinking stressed on human imagination and ... influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.". No doubt, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an astute and intellectual man who influenced American Literature and has rightly received the credit that he deserves from historians. He has been depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least ranks up there with the very best. But there is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure ...
- 1797: The Peregrine Falcon
- ... are found in every single part of the world except Antarctica. They were once trained by kings to hunt and bring back kills. This sport, called Falconry, is still popular. However, in the 1960s the American falcon came close to extinction. Most of the damage was done by poisons that farmers used to kill insects. The worst poison was DDT. By the time naturalists learned of DDT's effect on wildlife, it was almost too late. The American peregrine's scientific name is Falco peregrinus anatum. At one time, people called this falcon a duck hawk. That was a poor name, since falcons aren't hawks and they rarely kill ducks. The American peregrine was once found all across the eastern United States and southern Canada. In the west, the species was found from Mexico to California. DDT poisoning hit this subspecies the hardest. Even today, naturalists ...
- 1798: Hate Crimes
- Hate Crimes "Hate crimes are acts of violence directed against people because of their racial, religious, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity. They are also acts of violence against the American ideal: that we can make one nation out of many different people." Hate crimes are motivated by bias against the individuals actual or perceived race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual identity. Assault and battery, vandalism ... years to come. There are many different cases where a person or a group is racially harassed by one person or a group of people. In one case that took place in 1986, an African- American man who was a federal agent, was racially harassed. He had a picture of his two children on his desk, which was defaced with a picture of an ape placed on his son's face ... prejudice and raw hatred revealed in these incidents is only one element of a combustible mixture of social problems that produces hate crimes. One case in which involved a racial difference, was when an African-American man name James Byrd Jr. was killed by white men suspected to be a part of a certain hate group. They took the black man, tied him to the back of their car and ...
- 1799: Jazz 3
- Jazz has been an influence in many artists work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920s and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel Basquiat and ... a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic environment of American life, he rearranged them into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines and sharply contrasting colors. He later went on to pure abstract patterns, into which he often introduced lettering, suggestions of advertisements, and ...
- 1800: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... as a half-hour series on FOX Television on January 14, 1990. Both its critics and fans describe the show as one of television's most painfully accurate and painfully funny portraits of the modern American family. The show is always delightfully consistent in its acknowledgment of history, current events (whether scandalous or funny), and forms of art and entertainment other than television. Creators of the show are always attempting to ... manner) and more thought provoking. The series has received multiple creative and industry awards, including several Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. Why is this family of strangely shaped cartoon characters so resounding with the American public? The Simpsons, who live in the community of Springfield, include Homer, a father who gives bad advice and works as the safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant; Marge, a loving, nurturing mother ... the family; Bart, a hell-raising 10-year-old; Lisa, a smart, philosophical 8-year-old, who loves to play the saxophone; and Maggie, the baby, who sucks her pacifier while observing it all. Every American husband and father knows Homer's secret pleasure and bewilderment at the antics of his son. Every American wife and mother has tried to restore peace in a family gone mad. Every boy, no ...
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