Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... Fox Butterfields research revolves around the Boskets family history and focuses it in a way to demonstrate the source of Mr. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ...

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In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. ... And, during the states of emergency, which continued intermittently until 1989, a low-level police official for up to six months could detain anyone without a hearing. ...

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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). ...

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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. ...

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"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...

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