Examines the impact of a metropolitan-wide school desegregation plan on the attitudes and experiences of a handful of suburban school teachers. Reactions of teachers from the influx of Afro-American students from the inner city into once all-White suburban schools and classrooms; How desegregation ...
Colorado Territory: slavery was excluded by the Missouri Compromise (north and east) or abolished by the constitution of Mexico, 1821 (west and south), and never introduced by American settlers to any significant extent; Colorado was organized as a free territory on 28 Feb 1861 Abolition of sla...
The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rura...
Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning “apart-hood,” refers to a set of laws enacted in South Africa in 1948 intended to ensure the strict racial segregation of South African society and the dominance of theAfrikaans-speaking white minority. In practice, apartheid was enforced in the form ...
a在演唱会结束的时候,很多观众起立喝彩 Ended at the concert, very many audiences stand up cheer [translate] aShe asked fo an explanation and was place 她请求fo解释并且是地方 [translate] aI hear that Thailand is a good place to go sighseeing 我听见泰国是合适场所去sighseeing [translate] a在...
while others thought that Abraham Lincoln was black. One evening the school showed educational films, which attracted about a hundred and twenty spectators, most of whom had never seen a movie before. They cried, “Look a yonder” and shouted at every movement. The show ended with a lecture...
A volunteer at the Law School Clinic compartmentalized her emotional response to an intake by reminding herself of other tasks she needs to complete, I just kind say like, ‘okay that was awful but now let's try to do something about it.’ So maybe for me just like starting on things ...
In 2014, after the Oklahoma Legislature ended implementation of the Common Core State Standards here, Janet Barresi met with a group of educators and compared that action to the 2013 Moore tornado. It was such a personal trigger for me, that when another blogger told me about it, I said he...
Like other cities that boomed in the postwar era, Atlanta's vast metro region includes sprawling suburbs connected to the downtown core via an intricate freeway system. Today, Silicon Peach has been shaped by its history of racial segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, which was centered he...
On the exclusive island of New Castle, the sprawling Wentworth by the Sea enjoys commanding views of the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel wasdesigned to resemble a luxury cruise shipand thereby attract a similarly well-heeled clientele. The Treaty of Portsmouth—which ended the Russo-Japanese War—was ...