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- 4391: John F.Kennedy: Biography
- ... civil rights became a major issue. African Americans wanted equal rights. Protests were happening all over the United States. Kennedy was forced to order 3,000 federal troops to keep the peace when an African American went to an all white school. On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 white and black people marched on Washington D.C. to demonstrate their demands on equal rights. Kennedy had to do something, so ... desegregate schools. Kennedy said, "The time has come for the Congress of the United States to join with the executive and judicial branches in making it clear to all that race has no place in American life or law." In October of 1962, the U.S. found out that the Soviet Union had missals in Cuba that were capable of hitting U.S. cities. Kennedy quickly ordered the navy to not ...
- 4392: Rosa Lee Parks
- Rosa Lee Parks Rosa Lee Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Rosa Parks refusal helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Lee McCauley ... participants. Thousands of courageous people joined togethe to demand equal rights for all. The boycott ended on December 21, 1956 after the U.S Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional Rosa Lee Parks an African American civil rights activist was best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. After her husband died she left Alabama and went to Detroit in 1957. From 1967 to ...
- 4393: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X was born in 1925, he was assassinated in 1965 .He was a famous Black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the Black Nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, and ... States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular Black Nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that ...
- 4394: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born ... apparent that such idealism offers no practical use in a world that is as much evil as good, and will likely be a burden. Cereno is Melville's strongest example of his suspicions for the American idealist. In this one case through his expression of disgust towards the idealists and their idealism, he has portrayed the image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences ...
- 4395: Is it Really Bad to Disobey?
- ... family was split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both became the image of the African- American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. Martin Luther King believed that through peaceful demonstrations, blacks would be able to someday get full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was ...
- 4396: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- ... then went on to attend Yale’s Graduate School and School of Law to receive a MA and a LLB simultaneously in 1964. From 1965 to 1970, she served as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Assistant Legal Director to the American Civil Liberties Union she defended both Julian Bond’s and George Wallace’s freedom of speech rights. Norton went on to champion women’s rights as the chairmen of the New York Human Right’s ...
- 4397: Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes “Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was born into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn’t think ... history. Many people knew Langston Hughes for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poems. Langston Hughes skills was discovered when he left three of his poems beside the plate of an American poet Vachel Lindsay. He was working for Vachel Lindsay in a hotel making extra money along with writing poems. I think that if Hughes was not discovered by Vachel Lindsay he would not be popular ...
- 4398: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born ... apparent that such idealism offers no practical use in a world that is as much evil as good, and will likely be a burden. Cereno is Melville's strongest example of his suspicions for the American idealist. In this one case through his expression of disgust towards the idealists and their idealism, he has portrayed the image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences ...
- 4399: Thomas Jefferson: A Product of his times or a Hypocrite?
- ... higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe. Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World for a far longer period than anyone had thought. The native Americans ... prospect of removal beyond the Mississippi. Jefferson insisted that all lands of the Native Americans who chose to go west must be bought and paid by the federal government. Jefferson had said “Killing a Native American, was like killing a white man” I think Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite because at one point he did not want Native Americans living the way the white man lived. But then he defended them ...
- 4400: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... started drinking most of his days away. He would host wild, fancy parties and did not write at all during the next three years. At war's end, Ernest went to England and met an American foreign correspondent named Mary Welsh. He divorced Martha and married Mary in Havana, in 1946. Ernest was a man of extremes; living either in luxury or happy to do without material things. Ernest, always haunted ... of them were regular army personnel. Like Hemingway, Henry was shot in his right knee, during a battle. Both men were Americans, but a difference worth noting was that Hemingway was a driver for the American Red Cross, while Henry was a medic for the Italian Army. In real life, Hemingway met his love, Agnes, a nurse, in the hospital after being shot; Henry met his love, Catherine Barkley, also a ...
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