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- 3731: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... was a success and it seemed that Hetch Hetchy would be safe. However, when Woodrow Wilson took office in 1913, the new Secretary of the Interior, a San Franciscan lobbyist of Hetch Hetchy, pushed a bill through congress that allowed the construction of the dam. Muir set forth a flood of appeals, letters, articles, and statements, but to no avail. Hetch Hetchy was lost. Muir later said: “Dam Hetch Hetchy! As ...
- 3732: Jomo Kenyatta
- ... a Christian, he worked as a government clerk in Nairobi. Where in 1922 he joined a political protest movement. By 1928, as secretary of the Kikuyu Central Association, he was chief advocate for Kikuyu land rights. From 1931 to 1946 he worked and studied in Western Europe and Moscow. While in London, Kenyatta studied under the British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote his influential book Facing Mount Kenya (1938). On returning ...
- 3733: James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
- ... accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALLT II treaty witht he Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic side, the administration's achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications and finance; major educational program order a ...
- 3734: Biography of Benjamin Franklin
- ... sons of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, to pay their share of the expenses of the French and Indian War. He was received in England with praise and was able to help put a bill through taxing the Penn family for its lands. When the Stamp Act was passed, the colonists were angry. They felt that the Stamp Act was taxation without representation. Franklin went to England and presented the ...
- 3735: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- ... the pen as his mightiest weapon. He used it to encourage blacks to be proud and have pride in everything they have accomplished. DuBois had used the pen to encourage blacks to fight for the rights that they have had been denied. It has not been our fault. Rather we have been the blamed and blamed ourselves for this lack of "economic progress", as it is called. We are rather ashamed ...
- 3736: The Ambitions of Napoleon
- ... the Revolution. He organized a local pro-Revolutionary militia. Then Napoleon got himself elected as second in command of a battalion of Corsican volunteers. The Revolution changed the status of Corsica, giving Corsicans all the rights of Frenchman. This change helped Napoleon think more like a Frenchman. In 1791, Napoleon was promoted to first lieutenant and sent to another regiment. But he took leave and returned home once more. At home ...
- 3737: Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments
- Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was the nation's greatest champion of representative democracy and the rights of man. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, and writer. His interests were boundless, and his accomplishments were great and varied. Through his writings and speeches, he communicated his brilliant ...
- 3738: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... laws, the most famous being the landmark Rutgers vs. Waddington case, which brought him an important victory introducing the supremacy of federal laws and treaties over state laws. Hamilton's efforts in support of loyalists' rights gained him a reputation as a resourceful yet controversial attorney. In the midst of the flurry of anti-loyalist litigation, Hamilton twice refused the nomination for the state assembly, claiming that he was through with ...
- 3739: Stephen Bantu Biko
- ... the University of Natal Medicine in 1968, he became involved in the multiracial National Union of South African Students. He was known by peers and adults as a student leader This organization fought for black rights, except he claimed that, "the white [were] doing all the talking and the blacks listening" (Biko 210). Biko wanted the blacks to have as much say and participation as the whites, so in 1968 he ...
- 3740: Sarah (Moore) and Angelina (Emily) Grimke
- ... speaking. Her sister, Sarah joined her in her retirement. Both sisters along with Weld started and supported Liberal schools in New Jersey. Eventually the sisters moved to Massachusetts, continuing to support Abolitionism and Women's Rights.
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