The Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education court case took place in 1971. This court case made it required to extend transportation to students to achieve school integration. During the 1990s is when international human rights orginizations helped include access … Continue reading
This song is about freedom from his mother. This is different from the older song I posted. This Little Light of Mine talks about freedom from being held back by segregation. However, both songs mention being discriminated against. Basically in … Continue reading
This song was written in the 1960’s. It was civil rights movement. People wanted equal rights, and felt like they were equally as special as everyone else. This song was saying that everyone has a special purpose in life, and … Continue reading
People tended to confuse their wants with their needs. People thought they had to have a ll the luxuries presented to them through advertisement. Most people did not actually have the money they needed to get all these things, so … Continue reading
People were extremely afraid of communism. But some people took it too far. For example, Joseph R. McCarthy. He went on a rampage of accusing people being communists. McCarthy never had any real facts that any of these people were … Continue reading
Some people would caracterize World War II as a “Good War.” They would say that we were fighting for our four freedoms. Those freedoms would be freedom of worship, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom from want. This picture depicts … Continue reading
President Warren G. Harding appointed Albert Fall as Secretary of the Interior. Albert Fall took almost $500,000 from private businessmen. In exchange, Fall provided government oil reserves at Teapot Dome. Albert Fal was the first cabinet member to ever be … Continue reading
Foner talks briefly about the banning of liquor. He does not really go into depth about why the government decided to make it illegal to have liquor. Foner also does not show how there were many people who protested this … Continue reading
William McKinley created the McKinley Tariff. He continued to maintain the gold standard. McKinley created the first modern campaign because of the amount of money put into his campaign. This changed the way politics campaigned forever. McKinley was all about … Continue reading
John D. Rockefeller was an extremely wealthy man. He took control of the oil industry at this time in American history. Although you were not allowed to have a monopoly, Rockefeller basically did by driving out the competition through secret deals … Continue reading
One type of freedom discussed in Foner’s book was political freedom. People wanted the right to vote. In particular, slaves. Many slave felt that they were not free until they had the right to vote. Former slaves really felt they … Continue reading
The Civil War lasted for four years. It was a war between the Southern and Northern states of America.
David Blight’s book does seem interesting to me because it expand my knowledge about Reconstruction and the attitude of the people during that time period. This book might appeal to history professors and teachers. Students would also benefit from reading … Continue reading
It is much easier to learn about our history now that we have the internet. History becoming digital is fantastic because now history is so much more accesable to us. You can see images of the past that lets you see … Continue reading
