ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin was committed "to end the racial nightmare of our country and change the history of the world" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ...
Never in the bible are we encouraged to imagine that conspiracy is the grand explanation of history or the overarching issue of causality in human affairs. ... Conspiracy theories (rumors, myths, urban legends) have a long history throughout the world. ... The freedom domain website documents the history of conspiracies as far back as 1090 AD with the formation of Christianity and the first recorded secret society known as the Essenes. ...
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...
Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ... (Law) The history of Supreme Court rulings concerning school desegregation is one of initial unwillingness to dictate solutions, followed by growing impatience with the speed of integration in many jurisdictions, culminating in detailed and sometimes drastic orders for complete and immediate desegregation, and finally some backing off in the 1970's from hard-lin...
