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- 1191: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- ... to some forms of segregation in Birmingham. Even more important, the protests encouraged many Americans to support national legislation against segregation. I Have a Dream King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. On August 28, 1963, King delivered the keynote address to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. His I Have a Dream speech expressed the ...
- 1192: Martin Luther King
- ... King, Jr., The Making of a Mind, 1982, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Lowery, Linda, Martin Luther King Day 1987 Carolrhoda Book - Minneapolis, Minnesota McPhee, Penelope; Schulke, Flip, King Remembered 1986 W.W. Norton& Company, Inc. Washington, James M. , I Have a Dream , 1992, Harper San Francisco Claybourne Carson, King s Biography, 1996, Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project Paul E. Johnson, Martin Luther King jr. and the African-American Social Gospel ... leland.stanford.edu Albert, Peter J. We Shall Overcome, Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Archer, Jules. They Had a Dream, Penguin Books, New York, 1993. Schulke, Flip. King Remembered, Pocket Books, New York, 1986. Washington, James M. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World by Martin Luther King, Harper, San Fransisco, 1992.
- 1193: Lizzie Borden 2
- Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860-June 1, 1927) It is best described by the closing arguments for Lizzie Borden's defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson: The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew ... J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton: Princeton Publishing, 1992. Kent, David, ed. Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. Boston: Branden Publishing Co., 1992. The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Video. Director William Bast. George Lemaire Productions in association with Paramount, 1975. Starring Elizabeth Montgomery. "Lizzie Borden is Acquitted." New York Times. June 21, 1893. Porter, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Portmand, Maine ...
- 1194: Kosovo And Milosevic
- ... living in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. I felt the same way about Saddam Hussein. I think the longer you keep the problem around, the sooner it is going to come back and bite you. From the Washington Post April 18th, 1999 The horrors of the atrocities committed against Kosovo such as the targeted attacks on civilians, ethnic cleansing , and most certainly mass murder have a greater impact globally than what may appear ... Secretary general Javier Solana wants to see Milosevic indicted: We think that at a political level President Milosevic clearly bears responsibility for what s going on in Kosovo, State Department spokesman James Rubin said in Washington last week. Yugoslavia was once a vibrant, multicultural society with one of the highest living standards and the greatest degrees of openness in the Soviet bloc, a country of extraordinary natural and historical beauty. Today ...
- 1195: Jack The Ripper
- ... in vices. He had a great hatred of women, especially of the prostitute class and had strong homicidal tendencies. The only bit of evidence against Kosminski was a positive identification by one of the eyewitnesses. George Chapman was born in Poland in 1865. He was apprenticed to a surgeon and later went on to complete his studies at a hospital in Warsaw. He first showed his violent streak when he attacked his wife. She later left him and George lived in common law arrangements with other women that he also treated badly. Three of these women had been poisoned and died. While Chapman was charged with three murders, he was convicted only of the ...
- 1196: J.p. Morgan
- ... for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods merchant before moving to Boston and into the foreign trade business. Junius was invited to join the firm of George Peabody & Co. in 1854. In 1864 Junius took over the Peabody Company and changed the name to J.S. Morgan & Co. John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was ... strict records of his own finances. In 1857, Junius Morgan decided to broaden his son's experience by sending him to New York. The firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co. was the American representation of the George Peabody Company. He wrote to the company asking for a position for his son and advertising the fact that his son had "many admirable qualities for a worker" To the company, J.P brought an ...
- 1197: Helen Keller
- ... spread public awareness (Briggs 307). In 1929, the second volume of her autobiography, Midstream: My Later Life, was published. Helen continued to change the world during the 1930s. She began to urge the public in Washington for legislation for the blind. She was extremely successful and got the Pratt bill passed. The Pratt bill provided federal funded reading services for the blind. She also became the vice-president of the Royal ... a stroke in October of 1961 which caused her to remove herself from the outside world. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 but sent her family to accept the award in Washington. In 1968, Helen Keller died of arteriosclerotic heart disease in her home in Westport, Connecticut. Helen became known world-wide as "one of the most remarkable children in existence" by the end of 1887 (Notable ...
- 1198: Harriet Stowe
- ... law aroused many abolitionists to action - and writing. She created memorable characters who portrayed the inhumanity of slavery and the insidious, corrupting influence this "peculiar institution" had upon the whole nation. Uncle Tom, Little Eva, George Shelby, Cassy, Chole, Topsy and Simon Legree galvanized anti slavery sentiment. After Mrs. Stowe became acclaimed, at one point she asserted she did not write Uncle Tom's Cabin; God wrote it, and she served ... the first day, 300,000 the first year, and eventually sold more than 3,000,000 world wide and was translated into twenty-two different languages. Her admirers included Jenny Lind, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, George Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Nevertheless, she managed a wry opinion of herself; saying she was a little bit of a woman, somewhat more than forty, about as thin and dry as a pinch of ...
- 1199: Eisenhower 2
- ... Eisenhower's often-repeated declaration against holding political office, American business leaders and politicians continued to urge him to run for the White House. They told him that the "stalemated" Korean War, and scandals in Washington divided the nation and took away from it's prestige. Eisenhower admirers work laboriously to persuade the general that he was what the American people wanted and needed for the country; however Eisenhower loathed the ... from long experience with segregation. Eisenhower on numerous occasions reminded friends that he had been born in the South and had been spending much of his life in areas such as Kansas, Texas, Maryland, and Washington, DC, where Jim Crow laws separated blacks and whites. While in the army Eisenhower did not question discriminatory practices and sometimes expressed common prejudices against blacks. Eisenhower even laughed at a film that had blacks ...
- 1200: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... rose to prominence. In 1941, Eisenhower was appointed to plan the strategy for the Third Army in war games in Louisiana. The Third Army defeated an enemy force that included a tank division commanded by George S. Patton Jr., a World War II hero and a friend to Eisenhower. In September of 1941, Eisenhower earned a promotion to brigadier general for his outstanding performance and caught the attention of General George C. Marshall, who had replaced MacArthur as Army chief of staff. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Marshall brought Eisenhower to the capital to serve in the Army s war plans division. Eisenhower received numerous ...
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