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- 1061: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... his power. That is why he is always shrouded in controversy and his name is synonymous with greed and corruption. Works Cited: Kessler, Ronald. The FBI. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1994. Powers, Richard Gid. Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York, NY: Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc., 1987. Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York, NY: G.P ...
- 1062: Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X
- ... the local branch of the NAACP, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. When she refused, she was arrested and taken to jail. Local leaders of the NAACP, especially Edgar D. Nixon, recognized recently arrived King's public speaking gifts as great assets in the battle for black civil rights in Montgomery. King was soon chosen as president of the MIA, the organization that directed the bus ...
- 1063: American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions
- ... company came about as a result of wage cuts. The American Railway union joined the strike, and much of the countrys rail system was not running. Over three thousand men were trusted by General Richard Olney to keep the rails open. The federal court gave a court order against union interference with the trains since they were an important and necessary vehicle in transportation, and the strike was eventually broken ...
- 1064: Western Expansion
- ... the enthusiasm for conquering sparsely populated Mexico and their failure to go beyond Rio Grande. Thanks to their colonial heritage, that part of Mexico remained Mexico. It was racial supremacy that held them back. q Richard Steinberg holds Polk responsible for the Mexican war. He argues that Polks party platform was to annex Texas and if he carried out this plan, it would be his responsibility totally. He encouraged people ...
- 1065: Walt Whitman
- ... Stevens. Allen Ginsberg in particular was inspired by Whitman's bold treatment of sexuality. Many modern scholars have sought to assess Whitman's life and literary career. (Encyclopedia of World Biography- page 251). Bibliography Current, Richard N., Freidel, Frank, and Williams, T. Harry. American History: A Survey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Pages 292-293 Encyclopedia of Biography: Volume 16. "Walt Whitman." New York: Gale Research Publications, 1998. Pages 249 ...
- 1066: Vietnam War - The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects
- ... Vietnam had the right to choose their own future, whether or not to unite with North Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops were given the right to remain in South Vietnam but they could not be reinforced. Nixon was the U.S. president who finalized the accepted treaty and began to remove United States troops. Even after the peace talks, fighting continued between the North and South Vietnamese. After the majority of American ...
- 1067: Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
- ... Vietnam had the right to choose their own future, whether or not to unite with North Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops were given the right to remain in South Vietnam but they could not be reinforced. Nixon was the U.S. president who finalized the accepted treaty and began to remove United States troops. Even after the peace talks, fighting continued between the North and South Vietnamese. After the majority of American ...
- 1068: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... of Cuba. This would be the start of international communism. This did not go well with the US. The US Government learned of the Soviet missile sites on October 5, by a U-2 pilot Richard Heyser who took photographs from his aircraft. Kennedy immediately called a meeting of his executive committee (Ex-Comm) and two possible courses of action were discussed; an air strike followed by invasion, or a naval ...
- 1069: Salem Witch Trials
- ... Salem Witch Trials. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1995. Ashley, Leonard R.N. The Devils Disciples. New York: Barricade Books Inc., 1996. Briggs, Robin. Witches & Neighbors. New York: Penguin Books Ltd.,1996. Brown, Richard D. Massachusetts, A History. New York: W.W.Norton and Company, Inc., 1978. Ferres, John H. (Ed.) 20th Century Interpretations of The Crucible.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil ...
- 1070: Atomic Bomb
- ... of the atomic bomb, the killer of the human race, shall hopefully be kept forever subdued. Works Cited Brown, Louis. Japan. New York : Albany Press, 1987 Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Random House, 1946. Johnson, Richard. "The Effects of the Atomic Bomb" http://www.nuke.com/wwII/ mnhttnprjt.him(19 May 1997) Sakuta, Brandon., Josephine Huang. Japanese Holocaust. Boston: Del Norte Pres. , 1987 . Thomas, Gordon. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and ...
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