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- 1901: Black Power
- ... man named James Meridith who was simply trying to encourage other Negroes to vote. Meridith was the first African American to attend the previously all white University of Mississippi. In another incident a gentleman named Robert F. Williams had, in his words, "organized a Negro community [meeting] in the South to take up arms in self defense against racist violence and use them!" When night riders of the KKK and police ...
- 1902: Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
- ... Debs was finally discharged by president Warren Harding. After, in 1919, Communists split off from the party, Eugene, after he was released, wanted to unite the communists with socialists. Again, in 1924 Debs supported Senator Robert M. LaFollette for election of president of United States. Eugene V. Debs dies on October 20, 1926, at Lindlahr Sanitarium in Illinois. Eugene Victor Debs was struggling for his ideal of Socialism, however he could ...
- 1903: Biography Of Adam Smith
- ... Adam Smith became a student at Glasgow. He was studying moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. Smith referred to him as "the never-to-be-forgotten." In 1740, Smith entered Balliol College, Oxford. Regarding Smith, William Robert Scott has said, 'the Oxford of his time gave little if any help towards what was to be his lifework.' Smith was not happy with the money that was being spent toward an education that ...
- 1904: Betsy Ross
- ... in the middle of January. Against her parents will, Betsy continued to run the upholstery shop. Six months later, in June of 1776, with her husbands death behind her she was approached by George Washington, Robert Morris, and her uncle George Ross. They wanted to discuss the possibility of her sewing the first American flag. The meeting was held in the back room of her home, and was kept very secret ...
- 1905: Battle Of Vicksburg
- ... forces. It was a much needed and timely victory for the Union, the year of 1862 having been one of disasters caused by the Union and coinciding with the defeat of the Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, marked the turning point of the war. The first serious attempt to take control of Vicksburg was an expedition commanded by General W. T. Sherman who went down to Mississippi and ...
- 1906: Battle Of Gettysburg
- Gettysburg was the Army of the Potomac's only great victory on the battlefield. Antietam, certainly a strategic victory, showed Robert E. Lee's unstoppable killing machine was indeed stoppable. And the Army of the Potomac did eventually force Lee's Army of Northern Virginia from its impregnable Petersburg trenches. But Lee's surrender at Appomattox ...
- 1907: Atomic Bomb 8
- ... get the emperor to intervene in Japanese politics and stop the hostilities. The atom bomb proved to be the ultimate ambassador in a war where conventional politics were futile (O Neal 98). Works Cited Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb. Worland, Wyoming: High Plains Publishing Company Inc. 1996. Grant, R.G. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Austin, Texas: Raintree Sterk-Vaugh Publishers. 1998. Meen, B.G. Conflicts: The Atomic Bomb ...
- 1908: Analyse The Historical And Cur
- ... wing. Bibliography John Ardagh France in the New Century Penguin Group, 1999 Jill Forbes and Nick Hewlett Contemporary France Longman, 1998 Jonathon Fenby On the Brink- the trouble with France Little, Brown and Company, 1998 Robert Gildea France since 1945 Oxford University Press, 1997 Peter A. Hall, Jack Hayward and Howard Machin Developments in French Politics Macmillan Press Ltd, 1994 Janine Massuz Lavau Que veut la gauche plurielle Paris: Editions Odile ...
- 1909: An American Epidemic
- ... learn new ways to deal with real life situations. Whether any of these options really work is really in the eye of the public, and they cannot seem to agree. As Los Angeles police detective Robert Contreras puts it, These kids are getting away with murder. They have no respect for anything and joke that in jail they ll at least get three square meals a day. Obviously, it is going ...
- 1910: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... al-Qasrayn." Studies in Islamic Society: Contributions in Memory of Gabriel Baer, Hafia University Press, 1984, 227-263. · Haim, Gordon. Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: existential themes in his writings. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. · Irwin, Robert. "Messages from Cairo." Rev. of Sugar Street by N. Mahfouz. Trans. William Maynard Hutchins and Angele Botros Samaan. The Times Literary Supplement, 13 March 1992, 23. · Le Gassick, Trevor. Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz. Washington ...
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