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- 601: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... Democratic Convention in 1968, police were called, tear gas was thrown, and armed officers used objects of force against anymore that caused a disturbance. This type of rioting was demonstrated at the San Francisco State College and Berkeley’s People’s park in 1968 and 1969 with the same outcome of law enforcement prepared to silence the crowds. Todd Gitlin went from a mild socialist to a “radical,” “anti-imperialist,” a ... impact caused higher education to escalate. The original cost of education was $742.1 million in 1945 and jumped to $6.9 billion in 1965. In 1960 America was the first society to have more college students than farmers. By 1969 the number college students doubled. Todd Gitlin was inspired with the baby boom generation as well as with the movies, music, and comics at that time of his life. America portrayed images of white youth on the ...
- 602: ASSATA Shakur
- ... had racial obstacles to overcome as a child; all that contributed to her build up of anger and distress toward the government. The momentum she had built from her experiences all amounted later in her college career. At this point she developed goals, ones retaining insight into liberation movements. Community college and later CCNY had great influences on Assata's historical perspectives on her race. College broadened her horizon into black history; opening a whole New World of events she had no idea existed. This is the period where she discovered the lies her previous schooling had taught and pursued ...
- 603: America: One Nation
- ... Watts Riots. Looting, vandalism, and beatings became far too common. No respect was given to law, and no respect was given to those protected by law. Protesters picketed all over the country, including on major college campuses. But the biggest shocker was the Ohio State incident. Four college students were shot by the National Guard troops during protest. The Vietnam War ended with American troops pulling out of Southeast Asia, and carrying some 50,000+ fallen comrade’s home in bags. When the ... riots are started throughout the country. This also triggers rioting in other states not subject to segregation, but to the Vietnam War protesting, and leaves wounded people in the streets, in hospitals, and on the college campus. I think the Vietnam War shaped society as a whole today. After the police brutality, unwanted foreign conflicts, and the political scams, people lost respect for the government and the law it enforces. ...
- 604: U.S Involvement In The Vietnam War
- ... of America's men to learn that the politicians place is not in war but in peace ( Roush ). Works Cited "Interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander-in-Chief, Central Command." Frontline WGBH Educational Foundation. PBS, College Station. 9-10 Jan. 1996. "Interview with Secretary of State, James Baker." Frontline WGBH Educational Foundation. PBS, College Station. 9-10 Jan. 1996. Johnson, Lyndon B. "The Tonkin Gulf Incident." Message to Congress. Aug. 5, 1964. Department of State Bulletin 24 Aug. 1964: n.p. Leyden, Andrew P. "The Operation Desert Storm Debriefing ... 1993. United States, Joint Resolution of Congress H. J. RES 1145. Aug. 7, 1964. Department of State Bulletin 24 Aug. 1965. Wittman, Sandra M. "Chronology of the Vietnam War." Vietnam: Yesterday and Today Oakton Community College. Skokie, Illinois. 16 May 1996: n.p.
- 605: Maria Mitchell
- ... the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given her a better education than she received at home and at that time astronomy in America was very behind as of today. She kept studying at the Atheneum ... paint her portrait, and people recognized her achievements. Mariaƒs status as a respected astronomer also gave her new opportunities for employment. In 1865 Mitchell was appointed professor of astronomy at the newly opened Vassar College (one of the first colleges for women) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and director of the observatory there. In 1873 she helped found the Association for the Advancement of Women. Later she was also a pioneer ... also the first woman admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. She received honorary degrees, including one from Columbia College. A crater on the moon was named after her. After her death, Maria was given still more honors. A tablet inscribed with her name was put in the New York University Hall of Fame ...
- 606: Margaret Thatcher
- ... passport to assured employment. Margaret chose science — specifically, chemistry. At the age of seventeen, a year younger than most candidates, she took the examinations one had to pass to gain admittance to Oxford's Sommerville College. She did well and scored high marks in all categories, she tied for first in the competitive exam. This exam was given to candidates to decide which would win the one scholarship the college had to offer. But Somerville officials decided to give the scholarship to the other top-scoring candidate, an older girl who had been waiting a year longer than Margaret to get into Oxford. Margaret was ... Thatcher announced after the election that "he and the defeated candidate were engaged to be married." (Mayer, 1979) A few months before they were to be married Margaret began law courses at a special tutorial college. Mrs. Thatcher's ambition was to become a barrister, which is the "gowned and wigged advocates who present all cases in court. The barristers in Great Britain are the more exclusive and the most ...
- 607: Jews in America and Their History
- ... German Jews rapidly assimilated themselves and their faith. Reform Judaism arrived here after the Civil War due to the advent of European Reform rabbis. Jewish seminaries, associations, and institutions, such as Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, were founded in the 1880s. America was experimenting with industry on a huge scale at ... Defamation League to combat anti-Semitism. Today the ADL combats not just anti-Semitism, but also racism and other discriminants. Furthermore, The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation has put together Hillel Houses at major college campus throughout the country to ensure that Jewish college students get an adequate religious experience. Anti-Semitism in America did not become widespread until the turn of the century. Anti- Semitism follows Jews around; it is not part of a community unless Jews ...
- 608: The Assassination of MLK
- ... was later known as Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. His roots were in the African-American Baptist church. After his junior year at Morehouse College, Benjamin Mays influenced him to become a minister, the president of Morehouse College. (Smith 1). He studied theologies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and at Boston University, where he earned a doctorate in systematic theologies in 1955. (Carson 1). While he was completing his Ph. D ... Conference headquarters was located. (Carson 2). Martin Luther King, Jr. did not arrange any mass protest activities during the first five years to follow the Montgomery bus boycott. While King was cautious, southern, African-American college students took the initiative, launching many sit-in protests during the winter and spring of 1960. (Itory 3). Conflicts between Martin Luther King, Jr. and the younger protestors were evident when the Southern Christian ...
- 609: Oliver Cromwell
- ... Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering ... profited from the destruction of the monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII, and they probably influenced their son in his religious upbringing. Both his schoolmaster in Huntingdon and the Master of Sidney Sussex College were enthusiastic Calvinists and strongly anti-Catholic. In his youth Cromwell was not very studious, since he enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting; but he was an avid reader of the Bible, and he admired ... maintained high standards of conduct. In spite of resistance from some members of his council Cromwell readmitted Jews into the country. He concerned himself with education, was an excellent chancellor of Oxford University, founded a college at Durham, and made sure that grammar schools flourished. (Smith, 1991) In 1654 Cromwell ended the Anglo-Dutch War, which he had always disliked. The question then arose of how best to employ his ...
- 610: The Turbulent Sixties
- ... balls describing war and violence, and roads and seas symbolizing the hardships and struggles there would have to be with eliminating the war. Demonstrations against the Vietnam War took place in many major cities and college campuses. While many of these demonstrations had only peaceful motives, violent methods were often used to break them up. Take for example the famous student takeover of Columbia University. Black students arguing for civil rights ... overly violent. At Kent University of that year, National Guard forces opened fire at a group of demonstrators in Ohio's Kent State University, killing four and injuring 9 (Encarta). These actions led to many college students jointly rebelling against sending troops to Cambodia, and an even larger number called for the impeachment of then President Nixon (Anderson 350). In 1967, in New York, roughly 3000 rioters pelted police with bottles ... dyed shirts and loose moral values, but also by the music they listened to. While they did exemplify aspects of the activists, and they were certainly anti-war, their demonstrations were not take-overs of college campuses, or marches in major metropolitan areas, but generally mellow love-ins and be-ins. The drugs of choice at these gatherings were marijuana and the hallucinogenic LSD (Pichaske 114). The counterculture was a ...
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