"His oratory made as great an impression in Great Britain as it had at home"3. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ... Douglas was present at the first feminist convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848. ...
Once he left home he was a simple shopkeeper and manual laborer cutting wood until his first political position in 1834 after losing in his 1832 campaign when he was elected to the House of Representative for Illinois as a member of the whig party. ... The senate campaign was held with seven different debates in different cities. ... This was one of the most important and famous speeches in American history, Lincoln stated "And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, ...
Now, hostile whites, who did not know how to treat blacks as equal human beings, surrounded, and still held authority over, freed African Americans in the South. ... The boy was physically taken from his uncle's home, and three days later his lifeless body was found brutally beaten in the Tallahachie River. ...
Whereas in white culture the male was usually the dominant figure in the household, in this instance the Mammy held definite control. She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...
She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Their world was a private one, of home and family, "they were domestic creatures who depended on fathers and husbands to represent them in public sphere."...
There was now a new swing vote and now politicians had to be cautious of their stance on civil liberties because this group of voters held sway in electing candidates or passing legislation. ... According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. ...
