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- 1561: Alcatraz
- ... claimed Alcatraz as Indian land with the hope of creating a Native American cultural center and education complex on the island. The "Indians of All Tribes" used their act of civil disobedience to illustrate the troubles faced by Native Americans. Initially, public support for the Native Americans' cause was strong, and thousands of people (general public, schoolchildren, celebrities, hippies, Vietnam war protesters, Hells Angels...) came to the island over the next 18 months. Unfortunately, the small Native American leadership group could not control the situation and much damage occurred (graffiti, vandalism ...
- 1562: Booker T. Washington
- ... he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War eemancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans of dark skin had been considered a peice of property on a Southern plantation. Any ...
- 1563: Battle Of Chattanooga
- ... Confederate troops away from Chattanooga. The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1863.html The Battles of Chattanooga, in the U.S. Civil War, were a series of engagements fought around Chattanooga, Tenn., in September and November 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Braxton Bragg, and the Union forces were first under William S ...
- 1564: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that ...
- 1565: ClockWork Orange
- ... it is even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. Burgess not only considers moral oppression to be a wrong against one's civil rights, but he also considers it to be a destructive wrong against one's spiritual existence. This book delivers this message so powerfully, so overwhelmingly, that it leaves the reader ... for some time after the book is read. This book demands, and commands, one's full attention and thought. Burgess seems to be inspired on a somewhat holy mission. His war is against moral oppression and the governments causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric writing ability. Word Count: 822
- 1566: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... up to their ideals it is never to late to make up for those failure and make them ideals. Now that society has advanced more in its ways, and the Civil War has ended, society should concentrate on moving into the twenty-first century not as whites, blacks, hispanics, niggers, waps, micks or wetbacks but as human beings sharing this precious world ...
- 1567: Brownsville, Tennessee
- ... the past without ignoring the demands of the future. Here you’ll find state of the art farming operations, modern businesses and nationally known industries located side by side with Civil War-era homes such as Davie Place or “Prospect,” emblematic of Haywood county’s care and attention in providing the best lifestyle for its citizens. Throughout Haywood County, attentions to community ...
- 1568: Imigration And Discrimination
- ... customs, and religion. Many individuals and industries alike played upon America's fears of immigration to further their own goals. Leuchtenburg follows this common theme from the beginning of World War I up untill the election of 1928. If there was one man who singlely used America's fear of immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General ... Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair trials. What followed was an investigation of Palmer led by Louis Post ...
- 1569: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
- ... Mensheviks. To be a Bolshevik means to be the majority and Menshevik the minority, Lenin had named the groups on his belief that he would lead socialist revolution. As the civil unrest gained momentum the Bolsheviks, contrary to their name, was a minority group. The demonstrations of January and February 1917 that culminated in the overthrow of the Tsar provided an ... could be in control when he died or could no longer continue his work. (Wolfenstein, pg 258) Unfortunately for Lenin and his followers counter-revolution had begun. Famine and the war had killed many of the working class people. This left Russia vulnerable to the counter-revolutionary forces. This movement began within the Bolshevik party spearheaded by Stalin. He approved of ...
- 1570: Marie Curie
- ... Sklodowska is daughter of a Polish freethinker but reared by a Catholic mother. She abandoned the Church before she was 20 and her marriage with Pierre Curie was a purely civil ceremony because she says in her memoir of him, Pierre belonged to no religion and I did not practice any. Their marriage (July 25, 1895) marked the start of a ... isolation of pure radium. In 1914 she saw the completion of the building of the laboratories of the Radium Institute (Institut du Radium) at the University of Paris. Throughout World War I, Maria Curie, with the help of her daughter Irène, devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography. In 1918 the Radium Institute, the staff of which ...
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