The War of the Roses was never more bitter that the difficulties in this city between the representatives of the two Democratic factions. On the evening of the 31st ult., all three parties [sic] – the Republicans, Douglasites and Breckinridgers- held meetings, and, about half-past 10, af...
Douglas, five were definitely veterans and Douglas was possibly a veteran. On the famous opinion ordering desegregation of America's public schools, Brown v. Board of Education, sat World War I veterans Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton, Tom Clark and Harold Burton....
Taken together, the selection of written and oral sources from the Johnson Library which are being collected and published for the first time in this series will allow researchers to begin to judge whether Bayard Rustin, a leading black activist, was correct in his assessment that in the area ...
Douglas Nicholls Australian activist, athlete, minister, and politician Margaret Tucker Australian activist Faith Bandler Australian civil rights activist Eddie Koiki Mabo Torres Strait Islander activist Jovita Idár Mexican American journalist, teacher, and activist ...
Abraham Lincolnto become involved in politics again, and hisdebates with Stephen Douglas in 1858set the stage for his run for the White House. And, of course, theelection of Abraham Lincoln in 1860would inflame passions in the South and lead to thesecession crisisand the American Civil War....
Lawrence Guyot Died Nov. 22, 2012 Civil Rights Activist Who Bore Scars of the MovementLawrence Guyot, who in the early 1960s endured savage beatings asa young civil rights worker in...Martin, Douglas
She’s a paralegal and civic activist. “I understand how important it is for local elected officials to be engaged with residents. We aren’t seeing that with our new alderman, and I want to ensure there is someone on the local ...
did geographerEllen Churchill Semple, archaeologistEsther Boise Van Deman, and Spanish poetsCarlos Bousoño,Jorge Guillén, andPedro Salinas y Serrano. Noted alumnae includeHillary Rodham Clinton,welfareworker and writerSophonisba Preston Breckinridge, and writer and environmentalistMarjory Stoneman Douglas....
“in every respect a swindle” and characterized its authors, Senators Andrew P. Butler andStephen A. Douglas, as myrmidons (followers) of slavery. Two days later Congressman Preston S. Brooks ofSouth Carolinainvaded the Senate, labelled the speech a libel on his state and on his uncle, ...
William H. Seward was a U.S. politician, an antislavery activist in the Whig and Republican parties before the American Civil War and secretary of state from 1861 to 1869. He is also remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867—referred to at that time