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Representatives, a community leader, and an inspiration towards children and adults in all situations. I personally picked Brown because of her accomplishments towards her dream career. (http://www.blackpast.org/aah/brown-dorothy-lavinia-1919-2004) Brown was born on January 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a couple of weeks after her birth, her mother and Brown moved to upstate New York. Once she turned five-months-old she was placed in adoption at Troy Orphan Asylum (soon was…

Shortly after joining the party in 1919, Hitler rose to leader of the party, renaming it the National Socialist Workers Party, or Nazi Party. Hitler and the Nazi Party promised to restore Germany to its former greatness all while destroying Jews and communism. Instances such as the Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation, and the Great Depression, inevitable led to Hitler’s dictatorship over Germany. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I on June 28, 1919. Terms of the treaty…

1993). Bartholomew’s lack of a degree did not keep the University of Illinois from offering Bartholomew a non-resident professorship after the death of Charles Mulford Robinson who had held the same position (Johnston, 1973). This position lasted from 1919 until 1956 (Johnston, 1973). Bartholomew would co-teach “Planning of towns and cities” with the resident professor Karl B. Lohmann, whom would later write Principles of City Planning (Johnston, 1973). Lohmann admitted that the book was…

1918, but the Senate did not follow suit before the end of the 65th Congress. It was not until after the war, however, that the measure finally cleared Congress with the House again voting its approval by a wide margin on May 21, 1919, and the Senate concurring on June 14, 1919. A year later, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment, providing full voting rights for women nationally, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve…

Despite the 1920s being known as one of the greatest eras of all time due to its luxurious lifestyles and inordinate parties that seemed to start when the sun disappeared and didn't end until the sun once more appeared again, nevertheless, the 1920s was also a time where corruption in government, gang violence and crimes against U.S. law an insurmountable rise that had its disastrous consequences. At the time, President Warren G. Harding was a president that was adored by many, but shortly after…

Harland Bartholomew name might be not as widely known as Ebenezer Howard, Jane Jacobs, or Robert Moses, but it can be argued that he is just as important to how city planners are impacted today through his theories and methods. Bartholomew was a city planner that lived from 1889 to 1989 (Lovelace, 1993). He was one of the original municipal planners and has influenced city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct…

“Faced with both liberal and right-wing uprisings, diplomats from around the world arrived in Paris in January 1919 to negotiate the terms of peace, though without fully recognizing the fact that the war was still going on not only in the city streets, where soldiers were bringing the war home, but also in people’s hearts” (Hunt, et. al., 851). Many people did not…

Crime and the Roaring 20’s More than 12,000 murders occurred a year in the mid 1920’s ("The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938"). The reason for this large amount of death and destruction has to do with the crime lords of the 1920’s. These gangsters had a far reaching influence on the way American society operated in the 1920’s. Things like bootlegging, gambling, and even prostitution could all be things that gangsters had operations for ("The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938").…

This was controversial because it turned the common hard working man or woman, who enjoyed a drink after a hard day's work, into a criminal in the law's eyes. In The History of Prohibiton, a web site by J. McGrew, it states that Prohibiton also gave criminals, such as Al Capone, the opportunity to feed off the illegal substance. The organized crime circuit ate up Prohibition and began to boot leg alcohol. Local pharmacies and basements near the border became hubs for the transactions. The "Big…

Mussolini was able to use the growing support for the new ideology to his advantage in his accumulation of power. The origins of Italian fascism can be attributed to the establishment of the “Fasci di Combattimento” (or: Italian Fasci of Combat) in 1919. Created by Mussolini in an attempt to calm Socialist uprisings in the state, the organization was a para-military group, which sought to promote…