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- 511: The Influence of Henry David Thoreau on Mohanda K. Gandhi
- ... many to take a stand. Thoreau stated that people should refuse to obey any law they believed was unjust. In 1846 he refused to pay poll taxes because he wanted to express his opposition to slavery as it became an issue in the Mexican War, he spent a night in jail for his refusal. Thoreau never thought of jail time as punishment, and he wanted other leaders and readers to think ... death of his brother John, and mentor Emerson inspired him to write Walden. The book was mainly about people living in harmony with nature. The main objective of Thoreau was to blow the whistle on slavery. Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohanda K. Gandhi, an Indian leader who was a civil rights leader. Gandhi’s life was guided by a search for truth. Gandhi would not allow the government to rule what ...
- 512: Thomas Jefferson
- ... economy, a small, centralized government and a proper education. (6) These values helped him obtain the Presidency and accomplish many feats during his term. One of his most widely known belief is his attitude toward slavery. He believed that “all men are created equal” and that slaves were unnecessary and a cruel way to treat fellow humans. However, even while Jefferson believed the slavery was “an evil that would plague the Union," he owned a great number of slaves. (7) Jefferson did not even set his slaves free while on his deathbed. Due to this controversy, Jefferson is now ...
- 513: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X According to many, Black America is facing its worse crisis since the days of slavery., with black-on-black violence, endemic drug abuse and the virtual disappearance of the two-parent family the most visible symbols of a community devastated by unemployment and Government cuts to education and welfare benefits ... common occurrence in the so-called land of the free, a country which claimed to be the champion of democracy yet denied that self-same democracy to its own twenty million strong black population. Although slavery had been abolished in America after the 1861-1865 Civil War, negroes were still treated as the lowest of the low, not only in the deeply bigoted South but also in the supposedly liberal North ...
- 514: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... machine" that was being run by a very small group of people, when in fact it should have been run by the simple majority: "I am willing to leave it to the majority" (Thoreau 225). Slavery was Thoreau's biggest issue with the government. He felt that slavery was inhumane, and that a government who claimed to stand for and protect liberty had no right permitting the practice. Though Thoreau wanted an immediate end to or improvement of the current government, he did ...
- 515: Thomas Jefferson Biography
- ... economy, a small, centralized government and a proper education. (6) These values helped him obtain the Presidency and accomplish many feats during his term. One of his most widely known belief is his attitude toward slavery. He believed that “all men are created equal” and that slaves were unnecessary and a cruel way to treat fellow humans. However, even while Jefferson believed the slavery was “an evil that would plague the Union," he owned a great number of slaves. (7) Jefferson did not even set his slaves free while on his deathbed. Due to this controversy, Jefferson is now ...
- 516: Sojourner Truth
- ... Baumfree around 1797 in New York State, Truth was born a slave and remained so until 1826. Although she never lived on a plantation or in the South, Truth experienced first-hand the brutality of slavery. As she related in her autobiography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, first published in 1850, one master scarred her for life when she was only nine years old. Like many enslaved African Americans, Isabella was sold ... Truth believed, as did more than one million Americans, that the end of the world was at hand. African Americans, in particular, foresaw an impending Day of Judgment prompted by the continuing national sin of slavery, and in her wanderings, Sojourner Truth preached for others to find Jesus before the second advent. Truth soon made her way to Northampton, Massachusetts, where she mingled with other social reformers and antislavery activists, including ...
- 517: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... heated crisis in the southland. Despite persistent tries to advance the cause of the blacks, Truman was repeatedly shot down by a conservative congress. The boiling discontent felt by the blacks since the days of slavery could not be silenced so easily. The war had generated a new militancy and restlessness in the black community. Blacks increasingly voiced their opinions publicly and found many effective ways to advance their cause. The ... of the civil rights advancements of blacks were the landmark supreme court's rulings enacted to tear down the institutions of segregation in place for nearly three quarters of a century after the fall of slavery. Clearing the way for the civil rights movement was Chief Justice Earl Warren. Appointed by Eisenhower, a man who believed more in social harmony than social justice, Warren shocked the president and other conservatives with ...
- 518: Alexander The Great
- ... month siege. The city was on an island but Alexander built a causeway out to the island so that it is now a peninsula. About 8,000 Tyrians were killed and 30,000 sold to slavery. Alexander’s victory over Tyre is sometimes considered the greatest military achievement. After that, the whole region surrendered to him except Gaza, where a brave Persian governor resisted for three months. Gaza suffered the same ... Alexander and he easily conquered the Persian cities of Susa and Persepolis. These cities yielded to him vast treasures of gold and silver. All of the inhabitants of Perspolis were either killed or sold into slavery. Shortly after, Alexander married a daughter of a Sogdian baron, Roxanne. Victory in India Alexander reinforced his troops and reached the rich plains of India in 326 BC. He defeated the Indian prince, Horus, along ...
- 519: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... s gateway to Asia. (From Gold Rush) With the large fertile lands of California, workers were needed to help reap the profits that would flow in. In 1833, the British Empire abolished the practice of slavery. Plantation owners desperate for field labor made use of coolies. Coolies were basically Chinese that signed labor contracts and were held in virtual slavery. They were ensnared by brokers into this system by debts, clan war prisoners, or kidnapping. (From Gold Rush) Like the African slave trade, this method flourished over Asia and had high mortality rates due to ...
- 520: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... incredibly important part of black culture, when studying any type of black music it is very much an exploration into the back mind. Music has been part of the black cultural scene dating back to slavery. Although Jazz music is loved and performed by people of every national background, in America, the groundbreaker, leader and innovator in every step forward of Jazz has been the Negro. Precisely because the black culture ... of each believer was to be possessed by a spirit in a state of mental and physical convulsion. Soon many African- American rites and celebrations were born, playing a major role in the life of slavery. Jazz is a music with a history and a heart, it is both historically and musically a very deep expression of American culture, it has grown in to a vast and deep current of American ...
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