On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... Her husband refused to go with her, so she set out with her two brothers, and followed the North Star in the sky to guide her north to freedo...
As accounted for in the 1986 publication entitled Making Literacy Programs Work: A Practical Guide for Correctional Educators , specifically for the U.S. ... The statistical data show significant improvements for black and other races in the early portion of the 20th century as the former slaves who had no educational opportunities in their youth were replaced by younger individuals who grew up in the post Civil War period and often had some chance to obtain a basic education. ... According to several studies, the prison population represents the single highest concentration of illiterate US a...
was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Sawdust and rat droppings were mixed into the sausage meat and deviled ham that killed about three thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sincl...
