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up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

In relationship to the possible dangers of having the military in charge of their own decisions it is noted how, "In the early...

the civil rights issue cannot help but be valuable tools in attacking the inertia and apathy that stand in the way of Negro libera...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

Pros and Cons of the entrenching the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms within the Canadian Constitution Research Comp...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

of the previous year, which means that its impossible for spending to come back to previous levels in the case of a recession (Nie...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

The African American Museum in Philadelphia Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/18...

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

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

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

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...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

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...

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

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...

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