To The White Fiends was written in 1922, when whites and blacks were in violent race conflicts in cities, this was referred to as "Red Summer". ... In Bondage was also written in 1922, during the grim setting "Red Summer" like the poem To White The Fiends. ... Given that these were written during "Red Summer" it seemed like he wanted African Americans to fight with pride and not violence in the poem To The White Fiends. ... This period of "Red Summer" was brutal on both sides, the hate was in full bloom and many died because of it. ...

• Word Count: 1452
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• Grade Level: High School

Major Anderson was running out of food in Fort Summers and requested for more supplies. ... Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, William died in 1862. ... Andrew Johnson was sworn in a president hours after Lincoln died. ... In 1871 her youngest son Thomas died of tuberculosis. ... She died in Springfield on 1882. ...

• Word Count: 1289
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• Grade Level: High School

This admiration lead to his invitation to the Catholic Second Plenary Council in Baltimore, which among other things commemorated the Catholic soldiers who died on both sides in the Civil War. ... With the peaceful ending of the Trent affair, those tensions died down and Lincoln's assassination almost four years later would have been pointless. ... Before, in the summer of '64, Booth had ideas of going beyond the Confederate mission of spy and sabotage and wanted to kidnap Lincoln and keep him as hostage for the return of all southern POWs. ...

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The brigade went through many battles together and hence saw many Irishmen die. ... A group that had a much better reputation was the Tenth Tennessee Regiment, which the Confederate states recruited in the summer of 1861 (Glazier 156). ...

• Word Count: 1313
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• Grade Level: High School

During the Civil War, Charles Summer pushed for the emancipation of the slaves and introduced the 13th Amendment to the Senate in 1864. ... A reliable friend of blacks, who had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and before dying, requested a burial in a black cemetery. ...

• Word Count: 1376
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

From his own accounts, in the summer of 1860 he was quickly recruited by William Blackford, at the time a Colonel of engineers for J.E.B. ... He simply disbanded his troops/men and went back to practicing law until he died in 1916. ...

• Word Count: 1461
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

Finally, in the summer of 1862, with the realization that the war would not be won without the end of slavery, Lincoln drew up the Emancipation Proclamation (Fincher). ... Nearly twice as many African Americans died of diseases on the battlefield then the white soldiers (Ward 253). ... Though the casualties were many the bravery of the black men who died in this bloodbath was apparent. ...

• Word Count: 2424
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

Because the journey was so long and disease was easily contracted, about 10 to 20 percent died on the way to the Americas-.2 But it was soon realized that slavery is thoroughly inhuman and insult of human being. ... In the summer of 1862 the Confiscation Act had authorized the President to use blacks in any way he saw fit, and there had been some limited use of them in noncombat activities. ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
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