Our country is no stranger to riots that cause major civil disturbances, which often result in thousands of dollars in damages and mass amounts of both injuries and casualties. Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and resentment between two races, while the riots in Ferguson erupted out of resentment for th...

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The proclamation had immediate and long term effects on our nation. It played an important role in the anti-slavery movement from the smallest towns of the United States all the way to the shores of Europe. ...

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She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
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McPherson's hesitance to order an all-out assault on the Confederate supply line forced the Union troops to shift the fighting southward until both armies hit the small town of Resaca, Georgia on May 13th, where the first major encounter of the Atlanta Campaign took place. ... Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Neal's opinion that "Johnston can save Atlanta by fighting for it but the preservation of the Army is infinitely of more importanceas long as our Army continues in the field Sherman can do little damage in Georgia and I cannot believe it possible for him to remain in Georgia much...

• Word Count: 2262
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