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- 1451: Nathan Bedford Forrest
- ... first and most powerful Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He soon commanded 100,000 Klansmen throughout the Old Confederacy. Forrest commanded the Klan for several years. The number of members grew and the violence became more brutal. For these reasons, Forrest decided to leave the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest returned to his home and began making more money. He became the President of the Marion Railroad. A couple years ...
- 1452: Mary Shelley
- ... the nature of humankind, and the moral problems that are raised by humanity s slow but steady mastery of science, nature, and life itself. Gothic novels also feature elements of horror, the supernatural, gloom, and violence: terror, charnel houses, ghosts, medieval castles, and mysteriously slamming doors. Mary Shelley s setting is the exception to most gothic novels because of the fact that the monster wanders the Alps instead of a dark ...
- 1453: Machiavelli - The Prince
- ... generally equal in mind and body, and that it is this equality amongst man that causes them to war. Without a superior power to suppress the common power of the individual, man is apt to violence. Machiavelli believed that proper government was a cyclical event, with three stages. The first, tyranny, was the beginning of the new regime, an overthrow of the current government. The second stage, the republic regime, began ...
- 1454: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
- ... evident once he begins to ask some of the local townspeople about his uncle. As Robin is ridiculed and threatened to be in 'the stocks by daylight', when he asks directions, he begins to consider violence as a means to find the direction to his kinsman's residence. After the innkeeper threatens Robin for his inquiry, the hostility of the inn was what kept him from 'breaking the courteous innkeeper's ...
- 1455: Martin Luther King Jr. 6
- ... where limited because of divisions among blacks. He also encountered resistance from national political leaders. The FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's extensive efforts to undermined King's leadership grew during 1967 as urban racial violence increased and King criticized American intervention in the Vietnam war. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis. After his death, King remained a controversial symbol ...
- 1456: Lincoln
- ... into the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln became a tough wartime President. He flexed his powers whenever necessity demanded. He became a warrior for the American dream . Putting aside he hate for bloodshed and violence, Lincoln derived a plan along with Sherman s army to storm through and end the war. He did this as the surest way to end the killing and salvage the American dream. Lee surrendered his ...
- 1457: Laura Secord
- ... so Laura's father married someone else. A month later she got ill and died. Three years later he remarried a woman named Sarah Whiting. After Thomas Ingersoll became a young Republican and saw excessive violence in Massachusetts, he moved his family to Upper Canada. When Laura was eighteen they moved again to Bustling Port, which is near the Niagara River below the falls. After Laura had moved there she met ...
- 1458: John Brown
- ... house. The take-over of these key buildings ran flawlessly, with Brown s men easily over-powering the watchmen who guarded them. By dawn the alarm had spread. The townspeople reacted to the takeover will violence of their own. Their rifle fire kept the raiders pinned in the armory and the engine-house and blocked Brown s escape routes. On Tuesday, October 18, the US Marines arrived at Harper s Ferry ...
- 1459: Ida B. Wells
- ... impressive was the fact that non-Americans were starting to listen. These non-Americans interests were peaked because the United States, as a world power, tried to silence all issues such as lynching and mob violence. Now, these issues were coming to light, writers from other countries contacted Ida. Wells received an invitation from Isabella Fyvie Mayo, a Scottish writer, to come speak about lynching in Great Britain. This was a ...
- 1460: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... medieval ancestor, today that is not the case. Today man is able to take percautions against many of the dangers which face him. Fears of that sort, exceedingly violent in themselves, bred a species of violence in the medieval mind. So in the writings of the times this eminent fear was a influence of writing for all. Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is fragmentary, but there ...
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