The British monarch is the head of the royal family that once ruled the British Empire and who is now basically a figurehead in the constitutional monarchy government. Traditionally, the eras in England are named after the monarch, such as the Edwardian Era, which was the time period when Kin...
Or think of Jim Crow laws which suppressed the African American vote without explicit disenfranchisement establishing white citizens as primarily in charge of collective political decision-making, despite formally recognized universal franchise. Other times, it is social hierarchy that disrupts equal co-...
The first is C. Vann Woodward’sThe Strange Career of Jim Crow.InJim CrowWoodward tells the story of the emergence of the increasingly severe laws enforcing segregation in the South following the end of Reconstruction. (In the North we were more De Facto than De Jure about segregation.)They...
1942: 'All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose' - Artist: Woody Guthrie Adolf Hitler was vying for world domination by 1942, but that wasn't the only fascism Woody Guthrie had on his mind. Addressing topical issues like the poll tax and Jim Crow Laws, he imagines "people of every color, ...
In 1921 on Memorial Day Weekend, Jim Crow segregation laws seized the county. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, rumors about a Black man assaulting a white woman gave a white mob the excuse to head to a prosperous neighborhood called "Black Wall Street," where they looted and killed. On the 100th anni...
Out of this conundrum- how could Friends comply with the laws of man when they conflict with the leadings of the Holy Spirit?- grew the Underground Railroad. Levi Coffin There are virtually no written records documenting private anti-slavery activities. It is clear that many of the leaders ...
It is not surprising that an organisation that has origins in the slave trade, using the creation of racially targeted laws, like Jim Crow, to control their unpaid labour, segregate them from the general Populus, disenfranchise and negate any progress that the African American community may achiev...
And many museums have devoted attention to non-Jewish victims of the Nazis, such as the Roma, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities, as well as to U.S. civil rights abuses such as Jim Crow laws and the internment of Japanese Americans. ...
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And even cities and municipalities with independent "Home Rule" charters cannot pass ordinances that are in direct violation of state law [source: Russell]. Several states, for example, have laws that forbid the removal of public monuments commemorating any war or battle, including the Civil War...