In September 1962, James Meredith, an African American man, tried enrolling at the University of Mississippi. ... James Meredith was attending an African American university called Jackson State College from 1960 to 1962. ... In 1961, with the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples, James Meredith filed a lawsuit against Ole Miss, asserting racial discrimination. ... William Doyle indicated in his book, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi," that the NAACP's support was a crucial element in Meredith's ultimate vict...

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Prior to reading this article by James I. Matray my knowledge of the Korean War was very limited. I knew the War lasted from 1950 to 1953 and ended with a truce between those involved. I knew that it was a war between North and South Korea both receiving outside assistance in the war. The United Sta...

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On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima had been almost eradicated with an estimated 70-80,000 people killed. Three days later, a second, more powerful bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing over 100,000...

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Sadly his life came to an end by a bullet from his assign, James Earl Ray, on April 4, 1968 Important events in the movement involved the many sit-ins, riots, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 passed. ... That same year, James Meridith, a black college student, enters the University of Mississippi as the first black person to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. ...

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As James Ceaser states "It is probably a truism of political speech that if one has trouble defining immediately what a term means, someone else is using it a different way.... In George Washington's farewell address he said that the Constitution "has a just claim to [our] confidence and respect," because it is "the offspring of our choice, uninfluenced and unawed, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security with energy, and containing, within itself, a provision for its own amendment."16 Moreover William Gladstone described it as "the ...

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NATO's Article 6 states an armed attack occurs when "the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the parties, when in or over these territories or any area of Europe, which occupation of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the treaty entered into force"(James). ... (James). ... Here today we draw together one of the consequences of these events in the disarmament of the British Army of the Rhine"(James). ...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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