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… that nearly two-thirds of the people asked said that whites and blacks have an equal chance of getting ahead in today’s … in their younger years. During the 1950s and early 1960s African Americans lived segregated lives in the South and faced limited opportunities in the North. When …

… A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo Princip, aged only 19, shot and killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent … but to realize its inclusion into a larger, independent South Slav state with Serbia and other South Slavic peoples. As plots go, the assassination was one …

… year’s cover story recently, Dick van Dyke’s lively song and dance routine in “Mary Poppins” ran in my head. Step in … post-World War II America. It was the most significant in African Americans’ 20th-century struggle for civil rights. … Ala., it continued in brutal confrontations throughout the South, the momentous March on Washington, the tragic bombing …

… “Which Supremes?” applies Supreme Court cases to film and television representations. We could not have asked for … and people of other races. Such laws dominated the entire Southern bloc of sixteen states, from North Carolina to … Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, an African-American and Native American woman, reached the …

… of artists appeared, representing Black sounds from  West Africa to Motown and beyond. These performances are documented in the … gospel crossover hitmakers the Edwin Hawkins Singers, South African bandleader Hugh Masekela’s urgent polyrhythms, …

… Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-meter race at the … external genitals, internal sex anatomy (ovaries or testes and her hormones and chromosomes. The International …

… women deserved to be full owners of their own citizenship and have the right to exercise that citizenship at the … organizations that advocated different courses of action and often these organizations were in direct conflict.  … their successful advocating for the nineteenth amendment, and who they left behind along the way. …

… Civics quiz: Is and was the United States a) a democracy b) a republic c) … Americas – in British North America and Spanish Mexico, and South Americans who fought independence wars against their … democratic principles of equality and citizenship for African Americans.  Many white southerners, however, opposed …

… Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of the Goldberg Center; Susan Hartmann, … Clay Howard, Associate Professor, Department of History; and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor, Department of … targeting black elected officials down in the deep south. And so one of the consistent themes that we see …

… of renewal, a celebration of resurrection, lies anciently and deeply embedded in the human spirit. Hunters and … a time of rejuvenated hope. The puebloans of the American Southwest marked the beginning of spring, and the other … had such appeal and staying power that it spread from southern Mexico and Central America into the southwestern …

… be judged by history. The current proximity of his life and his presidency make an objective answer to this question … after the scandals of the Nixon administration. He unified Southerners, laborers, entrepreneurs and religious … his failure to take strong action against South African apartheid and his role in the Iran-Contra scandal …

… Church (ROC) called on God to “preserve the Russian land… the land which now includes Russia and Ukraine and … the political and religious histories of the northern and southern Rus territories diverged. The south-west and south-east lands, including Kyiv, were …

… States dodged a bullet last week when American sailors and Navy Seals foiled Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. … policy. That’s exactly what happened 200 years ago, when African pirates last held Americans for ransom.   Back then the culprits were from the Barbary coast of North Africa, not Somalia. But like today’s Somalis the North …

… presumably loyal to their parties, to represent their candidates. While the names of the Electors are not usually … challenged nineteen electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina and, yes, Florida. With charges of fraud … last time that political agreements rested on the backs of African Americans. Given the closely divided Congress that …