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- 5731: Frederick Douglass
- ... served as chairman of a meeting to censor the Maryland Colonization Society for threatening to remove free blacks from the state by force. His life of diligent work for the government and for his people was just beginning. In the winter of 1844 he began writing an account of his slave experiences to put down people’s thoughts of him never ...
- 5732: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... from John Paul Jones. Due to his success and valor, head of the Marine Committee, John Hancock wrote to Robert Morris, who was handling the executive business of the Continental Government, that Jones was a fine fellow who should be kept busy. Within one of Hancock's letters he wrote, "I admire the spirited conduct of Jones; pray push him out ...
- 5733: Harriet Tubman
- ... took her to Canada for her own safety. (www.teleport.com p.3) Harriet returned to the U.S. from Canada in 1861. The Civil War had begun and the government was enlisting all men as soldiers and any women who wanted to help as cooks or nurses. Tubman enlisted in to the Union army as a “contraband” nurse in a ...
- 5734: The Bill Clinton Story
- The Bill Clinton Story The legislative branch of the US Government has exceeded its authority in the impeachment of President Clinton by violating the trust and desires of those who elected them. Impeachment was provided for by our Founding Fathers in ...
- 5735: Thomas Jefferson
- ... to write the Declaration of Independence to begin with and was pressured into writing it. He believed in freedom from Britain, equality for man, an agricultural economy, a small, centralized government and a proper education. (6) These values helped him obtain the Presidency and accomplish many feats during his term. One of his most widely known belief is his attitude toward ...
- 5736: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... jokes rendered them innocuous.” (Brooks, 18) While writing in the West, Twain developed a sense of satire and humor about the aspects of everyday life; from pioneer life to corrupt government officials; and he did not hold back when he wrote about them. In the short stories, “The Killing of Julius Caesar ‘Localized’” and “Advice to Little Girls” Twain’s humor ...
- 5737: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... of civil rights agitation produced, as King had hoped, a strong effect on national opinion and resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, authorizing the federal government to enforce desegregation of public accommodations and outlawing discrimination in publicly owned facilities, as well as in employment. That eventful year was climaxed by the award to King of the ...
- 5738: The Life of Edvard Munch
- ... began to change their minds about the style and ways of Edvard Munch. Munch was gaining momentum as an artist in the world of art. He was awarded the Norwegian government's state travel grant. This enabled him to stay in France for lengthy periods of time over three years, in which he learned all of the different modern trends of ...
- 5739: Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen
- ... replaced by the North German Confederation, which consisted of the northern and central German states, under Prussian leadership. Austria was not included in the new confederation. Other members of the government wanted to march triumphantly through the Austrian capital. Bismarck instead negotiated a peace that did not humiliate Austria because his primary goal was to avoid making Austria an enemy. He ...
- 5740: Malcolm X
- ... of slavery., with black-on-black violence, endemic drug abuse and the virtual disappearance of the two-parent family the most visible symbols of a community devastated by unemployment and Government cuts to education and welfare benefits. In reaction to this disintegration the Black Muslims of the Nation Of Islam are once again being looked to as a spiritual force that ...
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