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- 161: Civil Rights
- ... civil rights movement of the late 1800's and early 1900's were not as involved, motivated, or as organized as the leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960's. While Booker T. Washington was successful in helping blacks catapult themselves into contention with whites economically, he lacked the desire to lead blacks to social equality. W.E.B. Du Bois did attempt to lead blacks into social equality ... Riders consisted both black and white people. The Freedom Riders would hop on buses in the South and test them to make sure that there was no racism or segration. The Freedom Rides started in Washington, D.C. Their rides were relatively peaceful until they reached Alabama, where those darn Alabamians started violence. In three different cities in Alabama riders were beaten by angry mobs and one bus was even burned ... night on campus, a riot broke out when whites began to harass the federal marshals. In the end, 2 people were killed, and about 375 people were wounded. When the hated racist governor of Alabama, George C. Wallace, threatened t try and block the desegregation of the University of Alabama in 1963, the Kennedy Administration responded with the full power of the federal government, including the U.S. Army, to ...
- 162: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... wealthy alumni and trustees, he also lost his battle for control of the proposed graduate college. The Princeton controversies, seen nationally as a battle between democracy and vested wealth, propelled Wilson into the political arena. George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, with help from New Jersey's Democratic party bosses, persuaded Wilson to run for governor in 1910. After scoring an easy victory, he cast off his machine sponsors and ... and when Republicans captured both houses of Congress, his leadership seemed repudiated. Wilson was hailed as a hero upon his arrival in Europe. At the conference (January-June 1919) Allied leaders Georges CLEMENCEAU, David LLOYD GEORGE, and Vittorio ORLANDO favored a traditional settlement. Wilson worked tirelessly for a peace along the lines of his Fourteen Points; only his shrewd bargaining prevented even harsher terms from being imposed on Germany. Wilson characterized ... the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make their home in Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on Feb. 3, 1924. Bibliography: Baker, Ray S., Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (1927-39; repr. 1968); Bell, Herbert C. F., Woodrow Wilson and the People (1945); ...
- 163: Benedict Arnold
- ... came up with a great idea to capture Quebec. This idea failed, but Benedict had already proven his bravery. He was then commissioned as a colonel in the patriot forces. He was one of General George Washington's most trusted officers. Benedict led his troops to the siege of Boston and Valcour Island and proved once again to be a bold and skilled officer. At the battle of Valcour Island he was ... to the rank of brigadier general. Arnold felt that his services were not properly rewarded. In 1777, Congress promoted five officers, who were junior to Benedict, to major general. Only a personal plea from General George Washington kept him from resigning. He did receive a delayed promotion to major general, but he was still angered that he was not promoted to a rank above the junior officers promoted earlier. Then ...
- 164: The Marshall Plan
- ... II, "most Americans just wanted to go to the movies and drink Coca-Cola," said Averell Harriman, who had been FDR's special envoy to London and Moscow during the second world war. But in Washington and New York, a small group of men feared the worst. Most of them were, like Harriman, Wall Street bankers and diplomats with close ties to Europe and a long view of America's role ... from his retirement, was "the most unsordid act in history." It was, at the time, a very hard sell. The men who wanted to save Europe--Harriman, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, diplomats like George Kennan--were unelected and for the most part unknown. They needed a hero, a brand name respected by ordinary Americans. They turned to George C. Marshall. His name would bring blank stares from schoolchildren today, but Marshall, the army's highest-ranking general in World War II, was widely regarded then as the Organizer of Victory. "He is ...
- 165: Behind the Doors
- ... excessive drinking. The excitement and adventure of his life and the mystery of his death will keep him a legend forever. James Douglas Morrison was born December 8, 1943 in Clearwater, Florida. His father, Admiral George Steven Morrison, was a high ranking Navy officer, therefore he was not home often. This left Jim’s mother, Clara, to raise him. When Jim was three his mother gave birth to his sister Anne. In 1946 they moved to Washington DC for six months and then to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a year, according to Irwin Stambler, author of The Encyclopedia of Pop Rock and Soul. In 1947, when Jim was four, the Morrison family ... scored 149, which is considered to be a genius, says James Riordan and Jerry Prockinicky in their book Break On Through: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison. In December 1958 they moved back to Washington DC. Jim attended George Washington High School. He often told his girlfriends what to do and was very jealous. They stayed with him because he was so sweet. Jim was very rebellious but often ...
- 166: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... wealthy alumni and trustees, he also lost his battle for control of the proposed graduate college. The Princeton controversies, seen nationally as a battle between democracy and vested wealth, propelled Wilson into the political arena. George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, with help from New Jersey's Democratic party bosses, persuaded Wilson to run for governor in 1910. After scoring an easy victory, he cast off his machine sponsors and ... and when Republicans captured both houses of Congress, his leadership seemed repudiated. Wilson was hailed as a hero upon his arrival in Europe. At the conference (January-June 1919) Allied leaders Georges CLEMENCEAU, David LLOYD GEORGE, and Vittorio ORLANDO favored a traditional settlement. Wilson worked tirelessly for a peace along the lines of his Fourteen Points; only his shrewd bargaining prevented even harsher terms from being imposed on Germany. Wilson characterized ... the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make their home in Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on Feb. 3, 1924. Bibliography: Baker, Ray S., Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (1927-39; repr. 1968); Bell, Herbert C. F., Woodrow Wilson and the People (1945); ...
- 167: George Wallace
- George Wallace The 1960's were characterized as an era full of turmoil. During this era, one of the most controversial topics was the fight over civil rights. One of the key political figures against civil rights movement and pro-segregation was George Wallace. Wallace represented the racist southern view. Many Americans were segregationist, but Wallace was adamant about the topic. Many established political figures were assassinated, during the 1960's. Martin Luther King, JFK, and RFK were all positive visionaries caused controversy throughout that decade. George Wallace was against the modern government, pro-middle class, and against civil rights. Wallace and many other visionaries were cut down to early in life. Wallace was not killed by the assassin's bullet ...
- 168: The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington's Philosophies
- The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington's Philosophies DuBois and Washington's philosophy's differed in many ways. Washington felt that Negroes must learn to do useful and practical things. While DuBois believed in higher education of a "Talented Tenth" who through their knowledge of modern culture could guide the American Negro into ...
- 169: Of Mice And Men - Book Report
- ... He expresses their joys and pains with such precision that the reader feels as if the characters were personal acquaintances and not just fictitious. The following is a brief synopsis of Of Mice and Men. George, a small man with restless eyes and strongly defined features, is leading his companion Lennie, a large, clumsy man with a shapeless face and wide sloping shoulders, down a path to a pool of water. There they drink and camp before heading to a ranch the next day to start work. George scolds Lennie for petting a dead mouse and overall treats him as a parent would a child. George tells Lennie that if anything bad happens while at the ranch to hide in the brush by the pond. The next morning, they reach the ranch and have an "interview" with the boss who ...
- 170: Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was born on April 5,1856. Born a slave he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when ... Americans of dark skin had been considered a peice of property on a Southern plantation. Any formal education had been forbidden to most blacks in the South. By 1895 in his historic Atlanta Exposition Address, Washington said : "Starting thirty years ago with ownership here and there in a few quilts and pumpkins and chickens, remember the inventions and productions of agricultural impliments, buggies, steam engines, newspapers, books, statuary, carving, paintings, ...
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