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factors play into it, it’s more so about understanding how you can benefit and be seen as superior or equal to other races. Her treatment she experienced was not amazing and the life that came at her had to be renewed. At 19, she moved to France in 1925 and settled there for her entire life. As an entertainer, film actress, and stage performer, France was the heart of freedom according to her life experiences underneath Jim Crow in the U.S. She was heavily admired as an entertainer in Paris as…

Edsel Bryant Ford was born in Detroit, MI on November 6 1893. He was the only child of Ford Motor Company’s creator Henry Ford and his wife Clara. Edsel showed he too had a strong interest for cars. In his teens, he began working on designs and sketches, eventually at the age of 16 he built his first speedster. Edsel never attended college; instead, he began working for at the Ford Motor Company plant at the age of 19. However, the young man took to the design aspect rather than following in…

Post World War 1, defeated Germany faced humiliation and “suffered” the consequential Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Germany lost economic power, previously occupied territories, land, military supremacy, and respect. The economic chaos increased social unrest and the peace treaty worked to undermine democratic solutions triggering the people to search for a more authoritarian direction, one that they found in Hitler and his National Socialist Party. From 1929 to the early 1930’s, Germans…

as they gained their newfound freedoms. This is a helpful source for understanding how women benefited from the Klan. Mcveigh, Rory. "Structural Incentives for Conservative Mobilization: Power Devaluation and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1925." Social Forces 77, no. 4 (1999): 1461.…

After the Butler Act was passed, which banned the teaching of evolution, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced it would defend anyone who challenged it. John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act. This case pitted two titans against each other, William Jennings Bryan, a former presidential candidate and famed layer/rationalist, Clarence Darrow. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a group formed…

It killed more than 1000 people. I would not want to be in that! The Tri-State Tornado was the deadliest in U.S. History. The Tri-State Tornado killed 695 people on March 18, 1925. It blazed through houses and living quarters. The damage was estimated to be up to 16.4 million dollars so it was a huge tornado. The second deadliest tornado in U.S. History is the Natchez Tornado which took place on May 28, 1840 with a death toll…

was kidnapped by pirates. Caesar's ship was hooked by pirates off the southwestern coast of Asia minor. Just like many others Caesar's life wass surrounded by hardship and glum. Malcolm X was a human rights activist. Malcolm was born on May 19, 1925. Omaha, NE and was assassinated on February 21, 1965, Washington Heights, New York City, New York. In 1946, at the age of 21, Malcolm was sent to prison on a burglary conviction. After his six years release he joined the Nation of Islam in…

The Start of Hittites In today’s modern Turkey an area called Anatolia began with the Old Assyrian Colony age. The Old Assyrian Colony existed around 1925 to 1650 B.C. and did a lot of commercial activity. Around 1600 B.C., the formation of Hittite state began and the Old Hittite Kingdom rose with Labarna I as the first king. Labarna I established his kingdom in Hattusa, the capital of Hittite. Lbarna I son, Labarna II, took over the kingdom after his father. When Labarna II was king of…

Human Trafficking Prevention & Black History Month Do you think where your family comes from is important? With heritage months and commemorative months, many people all around the world learn about their roots and become more aware of the situations that take place. With this new knowledge, one may learn more about themselves. Heritage is something in the world that makes you unique. These months do not only benefit those of the same heritage, but it grants people with the ability to understand…

and friends. Walt attended McKinley High School in Chicago. While he was there, he focused his time between drawing, and the school newspaper. At night, at would attend the Academy of Fine Arts to improve his drawing skills. (“Disney” 94-96) In 1925, Disney married Lilian Bounds, a woman who did ink and paint for Disney Brother’s Studios. He would not come in and meet her parents for a while, because he didn’t own a suit. He did after a few months, and he proposed to her. In December 1933,…