... . She flew on the space shuttle Endeavor (STS-47, Spacelab-J) as the Mission Specialist; the mission lifted off on September 12, 1992 and landed on September 20, 1992. Johnson, William Henry William Henry Johnson (1901- 1970) was an African-American artist who was associated with the Harlem Renaissance art movement. Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina, but as a teenager, went to ... ...
... : "If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a white man." On Saturday March 21st, 1981 Bennie Hay;s son, Henry and James Knowles decided that they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the man who killed the police man. They drove around until they found ... Michael Donald. In June 1983 Knowles was found guilty of violating Donald's civil rights and was sentenced by the court to spend the rest of his life in jail. When Henry Hays was tried for murder six months later, Knowles appeared as chief prosecution witn...
... refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau developed the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Resistance to Civil Government. Thoreau's essay has been influential on many practitioners of civil disobedience, including Gandhi ... ...
... . "1921-1966 The SCLC story". Atlanta, Ga: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1964 Haskins, James. "The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr." New York: Beech Tree Books, 1977. Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer. "Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s". New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Hughes, Langston. "1902-1967 Fight ... ...
... Kensington Society was formed. This was the first recognised movement for equality. The society consisted of just 11 women; they attempted to change the Reform Act with he help of Henry Fawcett and John Stuart Mill MP. This attempt to amend the Reform Act to allow women the right to vote failed. The Kensington Society didn't however, because the feminist movement ... ...
... Deal,"" Kennedy's "New Frontier,"" Johnson's "Great Society- FORGING THE LIBERAL CONSENSUS #2 Ideological Underpinnings: Anticommunist Liberalism Purging the remnants of the New Deal Left (Prosecuting Communist Party members, 1948 defeat of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, Government loyalty oaths, Purging Left-Wing Trade Unions, Hollywood Black-list) Containing Right-wing Anticommunism (McCarthy's Censure by the Senate in 1954, Preventing "Rollback,"" Firing of Douglas ... ...
... was King's experience in Montgomery that solidified his adherence to the philosophy of nonviolence. King was first introduced to nonviolence as a freshman at Morehouse College in 1944, when he read Henry David Thoreau's "Essay on Civil Disobedience" for the first time. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, King was so moved that he reread the ... ...
... a wife. Early in 1952 he met Coretta Scott, and aspiring singer. After completing his coursework, King began a dissertation in which he would compare the religious views of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus, setting off a chain of events that catapulted King to world fame. Rosa Parks ... ...
... Democrats would hold that against him for years. Nevertheless, JFK felt sufficiently secure in his popularity to mount a run for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 1952. He was up against Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a Republican and a member of the wealthy, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant elite of New England. The race was a contest, as one writer put it, between the Blue Bloods ... ...
... Britten, who kills him. Britten is then tried and acquitted of the murder because his wife, Jo, lies and tells the jury that Richard assaulted her. Throughout the novel, Meridian Henry, Richard's father, acts as a middle man between the civil rights workers in the "Whitetown,"" but he soon realizes that he can no longer depend on whites to help blacks achieve ... ...
