1973 - Jewel’s Catch One opens in Arlington Heights on the border of Koreatown. Now called Catch One, the nightclub was the first exclusively gay and lesbian disco for African Americans in the country. During the club's 40-year run, owner Jewel-Thais Williams welcomed legends like Rick Jam...
In pointing out, for example, that some African-Americans reacted negatively to what they perceived as the white supremacy of supporters of Tennessee’s antievolution bill — and particularly to William Jennings Bryan work to undermine an anti-KKK platform resolution in the Democratic party in 1924...
Blending first-hand accounts and quotes with hypothetical dialogue–deemed at the preface of the book to be true “science fiction”–Fallout takes you from the inception of the atomic bomb, as it was first simply a theory in the minds of a handful of scientists–many of whom were struggling...
In Through Darkest Europe, Dawud ibn Musa is fond of reciting quotes attributed to Caesar and those who knew him, only to be disappointed that no one ever gets the references without labored explanation.[27] In Every Inch a King, Otto of Schlepsig imagines a Shqipetari army marching ...
1951 T. RattiganWho is Sylvia?i. 230We bachelors welcome competition from married men. We so much enjoy watching them come the inevitable cropper. 1963Times30 Jan. 1/7I came a proper cropper, dearie, all black and blue I was. The quotes tell an interesting tale. The use of quotation ...
I started just writing quotes of wisdom, but not many read boring text… So, I saw I needed to go where the people were at, the ones that I was trying for anyway. I made memes, art, videos, blogs, or anything I could think of, to do all I could, for as many as I could ...
137. Worster quotes an emigrant named Daniels who used the term“GreatAmerican Desert”. Although he described the region as“uninhabited and uninhabitable”,Daniels acknowledged that“the country is not worthless. It is destined to be the great pastureOld Western History: Expanding the Frontier35 ...
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Every day in 1951, Linda Brown, an 8-year-old girl from Topeka, Kansas, would take a bus 5 miles (8 kilometers) to Monroe Elementary School for African-Americans, a racially segregated public school. Only several blocks from her home was Sumner Elementary School, an all-white public schoo...