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was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...