It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves by forging the Underground Railroad in the early civil-rights struggles in America. 1 A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two...
17– There is change in the Confederate Cabinet when Leroy P. Walker is replaced by Judah P. Benjamin as Secretary of War, and Thomas Bragg takes Benjamin’s former cabinet position of Attorney General. Mary Chesnut “The high and disinterested conduct our enemies seem to expect of is involun...
— Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, 2003 Mar. 18, 1963 - Gideon v. Wainwright: Guaranteed Right to an Attorney "[On Mar. 18, 1963] the Supreme Court handed down yet another landmark ruling in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, holding that the Sixth Amendment ...
Quayle goes on to point out, “I believe that concurrent with the nuclear war, we will see preceding it for a short period of time, the absolute civil war mayhem, and you can call this anarchy. It is basically going to turn this country inside out. What happens when there is no Socia...
My understanding is that the DoJ is still largely infested with Bush appointees. While this is not an excuse, it might be an explanation. President Obama’s Attorney General should answer for this. Update:Andy Sullivan writesthat the DOMA brief was written by a Bush Administration holdover, wh...
JUDSON HAYCOCK was an attorney in the town of Sonoma but he barely qualifies as a county resident – he lived there for only a year, and apparently came to the area in the summer of 1860 at the behest of Agoston Haraszthy to form the “Sonoma Tule Land Company,” which drained 8,000...
In the 1850s, he became the company attorney for the Illinois Central Railroad. Lincoln made considerable income after handling court cases for banks, insurance companies, and manufacturing firms. By 1856, Lincoln joined the newly formed Republican Party. The rise of the Republican Party was due ...
June 1863 Read Edward Everett Hale’s classic, The Man Without a Country? The story was based on thelife changing eventssuffered by a real gentleman, Clement Larid Vallandigham. He was an attorney and Congressman from Ohio, a states’ rights advocate who opposed the federal government’s sup...
Ida Wells-Barnett and her husband Ferdinand, the only black District Attorney in Chicago, agreed. Although Trotter and Wells-Barnett would not meet until several years after Washington’s speech, they had similar reactions to the man who was to become the leading Negro civil rights leader after...