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African-American Troops In The Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
Number of Words: 1651 / Number of Pages: 7
... In this desperate attack, the Fifty-fourth was placed in the vanguard
and over 250 men of the regiment became casualties. Shaw, the regiment's young
colonel, died on the crest of the enemy parapet, shouting, "Forward, Fifty-
fourth!"
That heroic charge, coupled with Shaw's death, made the regiment a
household name throughout the north, and helped spur black recruiting. For the
remainder of 1863 the unit participated in siege operations around Charleston,
before boarding transports for Florida early in February 1864. The regiment
numbered 510 officers and men at the opening of the Florida Ca ...
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The Condition Of African Americans In The 1920’s Compared To Amory Blaine
Number of Words: 1294 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Amory in order to prove how good he had things and how he still was unappreciative and somewhat selfish. According to the editor of the African American Encyclopedia, Michael W. Williams, “an average black child completed grammar school (eight years) having spent about fifty-eight months in the classroom, while a white child had spent sixty-six months in the classroom” (Williams 509). The primary reasoning behind this was that black children were needed to do the labor of white-controlled tenant farmers and sharecroppers. The African American families could not afford to miss the sharecropp ...
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The 1950s-1990s
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... attendants, secretaries and nurses. Furthermore in the 1950s there was an increase in teenage delinquency, due to the fact that teenagers were trying to find ways to express them selves and be noticed. They also did this through the music they listened to and through the movie stars and films that were made.
A major similarity between family roles in the 1950s is that the majority of women still do the cooking cleaning and other house work.
Entertainment although different because of technology, shows many similarities as people still enjoy television and radio. There are many similarities and d ...
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... to use violence to fight against the oppression. But this did not mean he would stop from voicing his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to the peoples attention in an attempt to fix it was the “law” that all the African Americans could sit only at the back of the bus and not the front, something that was abolished after Rosa Louise Parks made a choice to sit in the front of the bus because of her sore feet.
As a noble man, with a good education and a firm belief in the constitution, King was quick to see that the rights which we ...
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Multiculturalism In Music
Number of Words: 1440 / Number of Pages: 6
... birth of rock and roll. Many think that rock is generally composed of a white population, and not many would believe that rock was actually started by blacks. This shows early signs of multiculturalism through music. Rock and roll music is actually a spawn of rhythm and blues, that was created in the 1950’s. The name ‘rock and roll’ was identified by Alan Freed, a radio disc jockey that introduced rhythm and blues to the mainstream public, and altered it for the rock and roll. “What Freed certainly knew but few whites were unaware of at the time was that the term (rock and roll) was widely use ...
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Why The North Won The Civil War
Number of Words: 2835 / Number of Pages: 11
... The Union also had large amounts of land available for growing food crops which served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers and money for its ever-growing industries. The South, on the other hand, devoted most of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton (Catton, The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almost entirely concentrated in Northern mines and refining industries. Railroads and telegraph lines, the veritable lifelines of any army, traced paths all across the Northern countryside but left the South isolated, outdated, developed in the form ...
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Andy Warhol
Number of Words: 1954 / Number of Pages: 8
... the different person he was. He was able to attend college. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein, who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In 1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961, an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic strip that was placed in the window of Lord & Taylor's department store. H ...
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The First Atomic Test
Number of Words: 3548 / Number of Pages: 13
... the Trinity test by the military.
The selection of this remote location in the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) Valley for the Trinity test was from an initial list of eight possible test sites. Besides the Jornada, three of the other seven sites were also located in New Mexico: the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, the lava beds (now the El Malpais National Monument) south of Grants, and an area southwest of Cuba and north of Thoreau. Other possible sites not located in New Mexico were: an Army training area north of Blythe, California, in the Mojave Desert; San Nicolas Island (one of the Channe ...
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The Civil War And Its Ending Of Slavery
Number of Words: 1582 / Number of Pages: 6
... Compromise Measures of 1850 provided
for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new
territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the
Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there,
permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when
they applied for statehood.
Despite the Compromise of 1850, conflict persisted. The South had become a
minority section, and its leaders viewed the actions of the U.S. Congress, over
which they had lost control, with growing concern. The Northeast demanded fo ...
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The New Deal
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... to do so, with a Treasury Department license. Another way that he took charge was by cutting federal workers’ salaries, and veterans’ pensions and benefits, and anything else that would reduce spending. Roosevelt then created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which gave jobs to young Americans, and also diverted their anger at the government. Another major act was the Federal Emergency Relief Act, which gave 500 million dollars to replenish city funds. There were many other acts which Roosevelt introduced that helped Americans a great deal. The important thing about theses acts is that America now ...
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