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- 4141: Slavery - Life On The Plantations
- ... de saddes thing dat ever happen to me," one slave recalls of the sale of her sister, whom she never saw again (qtd. in Foster). Blacks received harsher criminal sentencing than whites, regardless of the crime (Cowan and Maguire 5:17). Marriage between slaves was not legally recognized, but owners encouraged it because a more stable environment was created. Married couples with children were less likely to attempt escape. Unfortunately, there ...
- 4142: Transcendentalism
- ... time and money for planning and building of houses. This resulted in overcrowded houses, often with more than one family living in the same room, poor sewage and lighting. This lead to an increase in crime. Ethnic conflicts often resulted in fights between street gangs, as people of the same nationality tended to live close together and battled other ethnic groups. Immigration brought racial conflicts with it just as urbanization brought ...
- 4143: The Biography of John Marshall Harlan II
- ... American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Commission. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as well as waterfront rackets in New York City. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as ...
- 4144: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... by being the leader of the "enlightenment". From this have come the industrial revolution only 50 years later and the multitude of inventions that followed that. These include the telephone, the car, nuclear weapons, the computer, the internet, credit cards and one day a microchip that will one day go inside one's hand that will be able to monitor thoughts, location, activity, and other things. Jefferson is the father of ...
- 4145: Malcolm X
- ... Detroit and his hair was red. After a year in Harlem, Malcolm was officially initiated into hustler society. He returned to Boston in 1945 after falling out with another hustler, and continued a life of crime, forming his own house robbing gang. Arrested for robbery in February 1946, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for seven years. While in prison, Malcolm became a follower of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of ...
- 4146: Walt Whitman
- ... He came into our generation a free, untrammeled spirit, with sympathy for all. His arm was beneath the form of the sick. He sympathized with the imprisoned and despised and even on the brow of crime he was great enough to place the kiss of human sympathy. His charity was as wide as the sky, and wherever there was human suffering, human misfortune, and the sympathy of Whitman bent above it ...
- 4147: Charles Augustus Lindbergh
- ... Organs (1938). In 1932 the kidnapping and murder of Lindbergh's first child, 19-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., attracted nationwide attention. A German-born carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann, was later found guilty of the crime and executed. To avoid further publicity, the Lindberghs moved to Europe in 1935. Lindbergh toured the Continent and studied the air forces of various countries. He accepted (1938) a decoration from Adolf Hitler and praised ...
- 4148: African Americans
- ... employment. Overseers were harsh as a matter of general practice, and brutality was common. Slaves could own no property unless sanctioned by a slave master, and rape of a female slave was not considered a crime except as it represented trespassing on another's property. Slaves could not present evidence in court against whites. In most of the South it was illegal to teach a black to read or write. Opposition ...
- 4149: Adolph Hitlers' Rise to Power
- ... attorney and the judgement of this court: for she finds us not guilty". After Hitler gave this speech, the court was sympathetic towards him. He was sentenced to only five years in prison for his crime. After nine months of his sentence had been served, he received parole. Being able to gain Nazi party control and gain enough supporters proves that he was an efficient user of propaganda. Hitler also had ...
- 4150: Madam Walker's Life and Her Cosmetic Products
- ... brilliant marketing strategy that made her a millionaire in 7 short years. An ad for Madam Walker's products In 1917, she was denied an appointment with President Woodrow Wilson about making lynching a Federal crime. She became the largest donor at that time to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) with a gift of $5,000. Commissioning Vertner Woodson Tandy, New York State's first licensed ...
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