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- 4741: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... Tituba, and her husband John Indian. It is said that Tituba entertained the young girls with Caribbean fables. "Tituba's influence over the youthful Salemites began innocently enough with occasional storytelling work breaks during the day, soon extending into nightly reminiscence of her Barbados upbringing. With the children snuggled up to the fireplace, for the heat of the fire dissipated after only a few feet, Tituba whiled away the cold November ... and swore out complaints of witchcraft against the three women. On February 29, warrants for arrest were issued against Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. They were escorted to the Salem Village meetinghouse the following day to be examined by John Hathorne and John Corwin. Sarah Good, the first alleged witch to face the magistrates and her accusers, was thirty-nine years old, but looked more like seventy. Sarah had been ... a church that Sunday, only smiled. She thought her reputation as a good, hardworking Christian woman who attended church every Sabbath had shielded her from their cries. Suddenly, that shield failed. She was arrested the day after Abigail pointed at her specter. Martha Corey soon joined Tituba and the others in the Boston jail. Her indictment marked a frightening change of course. She was the first "gospel woman" in the ...
- 4742: The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- ... Tituba, and her husband John Indian. It is said that Tituba entertained the young girls with Caribbean fables. "Tituba's influence over the youthful Salemites began innocently enough with occasional storytelling work breaks during the day, soon extending into nightly reminiscence of her Barbados upbringing. With the children snuggled up to the fireplace, for the heat of the fire dissipated after only a few feet, Tituba whiled away the cold November ... and swore out complaints of witchcraft against the three women. On February 29, warrants for arrest were issued against Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. They were escorted to the Salem Village meetinghouse the following day to be examined by John Hathorne and John Corwin. Sarah Good, the first alleged witch to face the magistrates and her accusers, was thirty-nine years old, but looked more like seventy. Sarah had been ... a church that Sunday, only smiled. She thought her reputation as a good, hardworking Christian woman who attended church every Sabbath had shielded her from their cries. Suddenly, that shield failed. She was arrested the day after Abigail pointed at her specter. Martha Corey soon joined Tituba and the others in the Boston jail. Her indictment marked a frightening change of course. She was the first "gospel woman" in the ...
- 4743: Birmingham, Alabama and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... was no more vivid a picture of the injustice of segregation as "the confrontation between grim-faced, helmeted policemen and their dogs, and black children chanting freedom songs and hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the nation was exposed to these and similar pictures (some of which appear in the book). Reports of the incidents in Birmingham moved President John F. Kennedy to remark that "the ... enough. Works Cited Vol. 2, No. 1 (January, 1992), pp. 1-3 BULL CONNOR by William A. Nunnelly. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991. 225pp. Reviewed by Jolanta Juszkiewicz, Pretrial Services Resource Center, Washington, D.C.
- 4744: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... the Civil Rights Movement was the Social Movement. It started on December 1st 1955 with Rosa Parks, a member of the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP. Parks, a seamstress returning home from a hard day's work, was asked to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person. When Parks refused to move, she was arrested shortly there after. The city's black community had long ... North. It was a bi-racial organization composed of young liberals. The group coordinated with the SNCC to push for voter registration. The most visible example of the Social Movement was the March on Washington D.C. Led by A. Phillip Randolph, on August 28th 1963 over 200,000 men, women, and children gathered on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial to show their support of the Civil Rights Movement and ...
- 4745: Nixon vs. Kennedy Election 1960
- ... the election. Nixon, while getting out of a limo, struck his knee on the door and forced to have surgery. This unforeseen hospitalization cost him some important days of campaign time. During the first few day's of the election, Nixon promised to visit all 52 states. With the time lost in the hospital, Nixon was required to make visits to a different state everyday. He spent the last day of the election in Alaska, a state that only held three electoral votes, while Kennedy spent the day in Massachusetts the state with the most electoral votes. The visit to the hospital also so ruined Nixon's image. During his visit he grew a beard, lost weight and appeared pale in the ...
- 4746: The Battle Of Salerno
- ... Mediterranean was the best. The British and Americans both agreed that the best way to defeat the Germans in Italy was to neutralize the Fascist ally. Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to commit American forces to campaign in North Africa and Sicily. The Allied forces suffered significant losses after fighting in Sicily and were unable to recover in time for Salerno. On July 26, 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was given the "go-ahead" for the planning of Operation AVALANCHE, a plan for the invasion of the Italian mainland. The basic plan called General Montgomery's British Eighth Army to cross the Strait ... now a certain success. The Allies learned that they would need to fight very hard to defeat the Germans in Italy. BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumeson, Martin. Salerno to Cassino (United States Army in World WAR II). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Military History of World War II: Volume 3 Land Battles: North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1962. Pp. 68- ...
- 4747: Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb
- Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb As Vice-president, Harry Truman had not known about the development of the atomic bomb. On the day he assumed the Presidency at the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had spoken to him briefly and told him that the United States was working on a weapon of extraordinary power. Twelve days later, on April 25, 1945, Stimson ...
- 4748: The Cold War
- ... and present operations, and talk about some of their tools of the trade. Origin of the CIA and KGB The CIA was a direct result of American intelligence operations during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the need to coordinate intelligence to protect the interests of the United States. In 1941, he appointed William J. Donovan to the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) with headquarters in ... detection for such a long time and the vast amounts of information gathered. "We'll never be able to match that one. Those flights were intelligence work on a mass production basis." On the fateful day of May 1, 1960, Gary Powers was sent up in his U-2 over the Soviet Union from the United States Air Force Base at Peshawar, Pakistan. His mission was to photograph areas of military ...
- 4749: The Kent State University Tragedy
- ... 30 yards away from the Guard, while the farthest was nearly 250 yards away. The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance. The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in ... and others to privately and publicly express their feelings. In observance of the 25th anniversary in 1995, a series of commemorative programs and events were held throughout the Spring Semester at Kent, highlighted by two-day scholarly symposium titled "Legacies of Protest" which examined political and civil unrest.
- 4750: Life In The 1900's
- ... and even if it were for sale only the extremely rich had the option of purchasing the items. Sports being very new, in the aspect of it being organized was small time compared to present day. Travelling required time and was uncomfortable. Only the rich could have the luxurious accomadations for those long journeys. Many jobs were available to most people but you were under constant scrutiny while working and would ... virtually anybody willing to learn. Henry Ford revolutionized the world we live in by inventing the "horseless carriage", if it had not been for him, instead of taking the GO bus in the morning we'd be riding a horse named Wanda. Not only did his invention offer a method of transportation to the public, but it helped with our emergency services such as fire engines, police cars, and ambulances. Now ...
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