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- 3671: Bob Dylan
- ... radio, movies and television. By the mid 1950's it, too, felt the social tensions that were rolling across the country, especially with Senator Joesph McCarthy accusing innocent americans of being communists. Meanwhile the civil rights movement was gaining momentum. In 1954 after the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the segregation of races in public schools is declared a violatation of the equal protection clause. The Supreme ...
- 3672: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Accomplishments in Office
- ... Alabama. Kennedy also sent to Congress a message to desegregate public areas and give the Department of Justice the authority to bring forth school integration suits. Most of these proposals were placed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy served nearly 1,037 days in office and accomplished more in those two years than some may do in two terms. His visions and the idea that it ...
- 3673: Jim Thorpe
- ... to raise $2,500. Senator Walker, Representatives Levergood and Stevens, and Governor Murray of Oklahoma promised a park and would name Jim Thorpe Stadium in his honor. 48 hours after promising, the Governor vetoed the bill. Mrs. Thorpe negotiated with the town of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, which is where Jim Thorpe rests today. The town is now know as Jim Thorpe, PA. Jim has a red Granite memorial which reads "SIR ...
- 3674: Thomas Jefferson
- ... important and this is hypocritical by disregarding his principles. The Burr conspiracy depicted Jefferson as a ruthless, and a individual who will do anything inorder to achieve his goal. Jefferson championed civil liberties and unalienable rights. Yet, Jefferson violated civil liberties by coercing witnesses, arrested with out habeus corpus and prosecuting in a "court" of his own. Jefferson and Jeffersonians are hypocrites from the start and they destroyed political tradition as ...
- 3675: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
- 3676: Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
- ... boxing. After being barred from the ring, Muhammad displayed his tenacity by touring colleges and giving lectures to earn money while filing suit against the New York State Athletic Commission for violating his 14th amendment rights. When Ali won his lawsuit and his boxing license was reinstated, Ali fought Joe Frazier for the heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden and lost for the first time. From 1974 to 1978, Muhammad fought ...
- 3677: John the Baptist
- ... in life, that he had been specifically set aside for a great mission by the Lord (Meyer 40). As was the custom, when a boy reached the age of twelve, he was entitled to certain rights as a man in Israel and in the church. John was now expected to travel with his father and mother to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. One year, however, as father and son ...
- 3678: Alphonse Capone
- ... Capone became boss when Torrio, who was wounded in an assassination attempt, surrendered control and returned to Brooklyn. Soon Capone built a fearsome reputation in the ruthless gang rivalries, struggling to acquire and retain "racketing rights" to several areas of Chicago. His reputation grew as rival gangs were eliminated or nullified and the suburb of Cicero became a "firfdom" of the Capone mob. A good example of the culminating violence of ...
- 3679: Judith Sargeant Murray
- ... disseminating her ideas"(xv). Murray addressed many controversial topics, including female education, racial prejudice, equality of the sexes, the value of self-esteem, and theories of universal salvation. Murray reveals her unwavering commitment to human rights in her literary endeavors. Murray considered men and women to be intellectually equal and advocated intellectual independence for single and married woman. It was her belief that if woman had enough respect for themselves as ...
- 3680: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
- ... after masterpiece. One of his best known symphonies, Symphony No. 5, was written soon thereafter. After 1812, Beethoven found himself confronting many obstacles. Numerous lawsuits were filed against him for various reasons such as royalty rights to his music. His brother died. He began working on one of his greatest pieces, the Ode to Joy. The Ode to Joy broke new ground in terms of scale and introduced choral forces into ...
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