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passed; which gave women the right to vote. In recognition of all of her hard work and dedication the U.S. Treasury Department put her picture on the dollar coin. She was the first woman to be honored in this manner. She is also remembered by the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House. This is the actual home of Anthony; people go to visit this home and learn about all of the many things that she has…

Overview The film Iron Jawed Angels, directed by Katja von Garnier is about the young female activists that led the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s. Women suffragist portrayed in the film are Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Doris Stevens, and Mabel Vernon. These women put their lives at risk for women to have equal rights, specifically to be able to vote. They were beaten, dragged, had trash and bottles thrown at them, and were called “he shes” for trying to exercise their constitutional…

Chirayu Shah Mrs. McElroy APUSH 2, Sect. 2 31 March 2017 From 1945 to 1968, many groups of people were asking for rights, but the main focus was on the African-American community. They were asking for equality in the country, especially in the South. During this twenty-three period time frame, many events took place that changed their role in society. Although it did face great backlash, the government continued to work in their favor. Leaders in the African-American community unified the…

Journalist David Halberstam started his career in journalism in a comparatively unorthodox way from his peers. After graduating from Harvard, Halberstam went to work for small daily newspapers instead of the bustling cities that most journalists long for. So instead, Halberstam fortuitously went to Mississippi, where he was front and center during the cultural upheaval of the 1950’s. Racial tensions were high after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, and Halberstam found…

troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of JFK and MLK. After midnight August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found in her home in LA dues to an overdose of sedative drugs. Due to the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 2nd and 4th, 1964, President Lydon B Johnson sent US troops to Vietnam. On March…

racists and segregationists to court for restriction of equal rights that were given to other people. The african americans gained popular following by a majority of the united states and caused the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be signed by LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson). The events here gave way to many court cases that shaped the way they would be handled in the future. Before the act was signed, many people fought to make this happen. Most notable was Martin Luther King and his famous “I Have a…

United States of America, a very young nation in which it achieved the status of being the world’s superpower in terms of economy and military. One of the chapters of American history is the Vietnam War where many critics viewed the war as a waste and opened the debate that America should police other nation’s affairs. One of the strongest critics on this war was Senator J. William Fulbright, he expressed his sentiment by writing the “On the Arrogance of Power”. The article’s aim is to catch the…

Caitlin Thomas The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. If someone were to ask me what I thought was one of the biggest issues in the United States today, I would automatically answer with the issue of racism. Many famous individuals in years past have made large contributions to the Civil Rights movements, but none have compared to Martin Luther King Jr., the man who put civil rights movements into the spotlight nearly sixty years before the Black Lives Matter movement ever took the focus…

Would you want your scandal aired out to the public? All over national Tv, newspaper and word of mouth. That’s what happened to one of our former presidents William Jefferson Clinton, he was a good president who made poor choices concerning his private life, and instead of being honest he lied about his actions which resulted in major consequences. Former president Bill Clinton was born August 19th, 1946, in Hope Arkansas. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton’s father died three months before he…

The authors purpose behind the reading; On the Arrogance of Power, 1966, is to depict the United States and its failure to spread Democracy due to its “arrogance of power” (Fulbright, 2012). More specifically, this article discusses the failure to spread democracy during the Vietnam conflict. The author begins his writing with an argumentative thesis: “The dilemmas involved are preeminently American dilemmas, not because America has weaknesses that others do not have but because America is…