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- 1701: Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X
- ... you're not ready to get involved with either one of those, you are satisfied with the status quo. That means we'll have to change you." (Malcom X) While Martin Luther King promoted non-violence, civil rights, and the end to racial segregation, a man of the name of Malcom X dreamed of a separate nation. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation. A Southerner, a black ...
- 1702: Civil War - Radical Reconstruction
- ... were the majority of the South, Whites feared they were going to take over the political system in the South. Many Southern Whites who felt threatened, turned to illegal means stop Blacks from getting equality. Violence against Blacks became more and more popular. Led by the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations, Whites killed and beat Blacks throughout the South. The KKK even would wait by voting booths and beat Blacks ...
- 1703: Civil War
- ... Potawattamie Creek in Kansas. The entire country was slowly being divided into two parts and even congress could not do anything to resolve the problems. Political parties were splitting along North/South lines and even violence was a common occurrence in congress. The last straw, which eventually split the Union, was the election of 1860. On the eve of the election, Southerners had already agreed that if a republican wins the ...
- 1704: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... desegregation never campaigns." A group at odds with the Warren court and their radical judgements, the Southern contingent protested, "They put the Negroes in school and now they've driven God out" Slowly, with much violence and the use of federal marshals, and on occasion federal troops, segregation was achieved. The South had no choice, Congress had finally entered the scene with the new Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had ...
- 1705: Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
- ... to embrace the secular world rather than Orthodox or Hasidim Judaism (switt@thayer.com). The Chosen begins with Reuven Malther being injured in a baseball game. His assailant is Danny Saunders who is driven to violence by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that destines him to succeed his awesome father in an unbroken line of Hasidic rabbis, while his own restless intelligence is beginning to reach ...
- 1706: Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party was the key-event for the Revolutionary War. With this act, the colonists started the violent part of the revolution. It was the first try of the colonists, to rebel with violence against their own government. The following events were created by the snowball effect. There, all the colonists realized the first time, that they were treated wrong by the British government. It was an important step ...
- 1707: Alcatraz
- ... 17 years on the island. Following incarceration in USP McNeil Island, where he was sentenced to 12 years for manslaughter in 1909, Stroud was transferred to Leavenworth after serving only three years. A history of violence dictated the move, and Stroud had been in Leavenworth less than four years when he attacked and killed a custodial officer in front of better than 2,000 other inmates. His trial resulted in the ...
- 1708: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... Constitution seemed to protect slavery. Throughout this decade, however, he and most of his associates upheld pacifist creeds and insisted that slavery should not be ended violently. During the 1850s, Garrison became less opposed to violence as a means for ending slavery. He condoned violent resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, hailed John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, and in 1861 announced his support for war against the ...
- 1709: Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
- ... guilt differently. Ford chose the method of doing his best to alleviate his own guilt in his participation of slavery; Epps and Tibeats couldn't handle the contradictions that stirred inside, and instead moved to violence and alcoholism. And they all felt guilt as a direct cause of the institution. Simply because slavery corrupted much of the humanity of southerners toward blacks does not mean slaveholders were not responsible for their ...
- 1710: Slavery - Slavery And Human Decency
- ... ones skin describes the universal nature of what we now call racial consciousness. Slavery is a perfect example. Racial animosity grew in both the North and South, and in many instances led to physical violence. The era of slavery should have been called the era of inhumanity. Slavery was inhumane, barbaric, and ultimately disgusting. In 1800 the population of the United States included 893,602 slaves, of which only 36 ...
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