Civil defense

Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) Notes • Feb. 1, 1960- 4 black students sat at counter for whites o refused to leave o refused to fight back => trained in nonviolent protest  Students drawn to Jim Lawson • educated them in nonviolence (workshops) • Ben West => 1960 mayor of Nashville, Tennessee • Dianne Nash led student sit in first o Dressed in Sunday clothes o At first sit-ins not taken seriously  People thought blacks protesting were not from Nashville o after attacked…

The Gettysburg Address is known as one of the most famous speeches in all of American History. It is often times called the turning point for the Civil War since it had such an impact, but there is an argument on whether President Abraham Lincoln stated this for the moral cause or the money. Charles Adams starts this debate by defending the south and stating that Lincoln’s speech is “based on a number of errors and falsehoods.”(45) Adams states that Lincoln’s time is off because the American…

The textbook seems to focus more on the more civil part of the struggle to have equal rights and to be realized as a human being, the textbook focuses on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the government issuing amendments and other acts to try force people to treat each other equally but people like Rosa Parks definitely helped the initiation of desegregation after she was arrested for not moving to the colored section of the Montgomery Bus Line which started a boycott of said bus line and…

black protest in both violent and nonviolent formats. Mr. Cobb addresses explicitly this with the idea that, no matter what kind of protest is put into place, people of color will usually be forced to resort to self-defense in protests due to fear-driven racism…

Spanish civil war. The focus of the book is on 2 Chapters, one being chapter 17: The battle of Madrid and Chapter and Chapter 33: The fall of Catalonia, both chapters depicts to different key battles that uses the Guerra Celere(rapid war)that results to the loss of territory for the republicans and describe how the strategy of rapid and major offensive were used. The author uses a number of sources to produce an accurate historical account of the events happening during the Spanish civil war,…

The Civil Rights movement did not start with the labor movement, but has been an ongoing process since the beginning of the institution of slavery. The conflict that was the focus of the movement was created by the obvious differences in the social and economic practices of American slavery and the associated establishment of racial oppression. The Judeo-Christian values relating to love and brotherhood coupled with the religious interpretations of equality and justice perceived by a Southern…

the United States lack of strong coastal defenses. Fort Sumter was named after the Revolutionary War general Thomas Sumter. One fact is that Fort Sumter was one of nearly 50 forts built as part of a coastal defense program that was made in 1817. The placement of Fort Sumter allowed it to have control of Charleston Harbor. The attack on Fort Sumter was the start of the Civil War. That means that the attack on Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War. On January 9, 1861, when a ship…

1) 13th Amendment The Thirteenth Amendment is one of three Civil War amendments (alongside 14th and 15th amendments); the amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. It was proposed by Congress on January 31st, 1865 and declared ratified on December 18, 1865 at the end of the American Civil War. It was important because for the first time, the issue of slavery was resolved. President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for more than three-fourth of the American slave through the…

In the years of 1861 – 1865 the United States was at war against itself. This war consisting of the Union (The North) and the confederates (The South). Both groups had a unique style of fighting. The Union had a Tuetonic/Anglo-Saxon style of fighting against the Confederacy although, the Confederacy uses a more Celtic Style of fighting. Both styles of fighting were unique in most characteristics. But similar in other terms. The Union used a style of fighting evolved from the Teutonic’s and…

outcome of any battle. Take for instance the battle at Fort Pulaski, during the Civil War. Following the War of 1812, defense of ports along the east coast became critical to fend off British and Spanish attacks. Fort Pulaski was on key terrain for defense of Savannah Georgia’s inlet which trade ships frequented. It also had the strategic advantage of providing oversight of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. As the Civil War raged, capturing Savannah and her port became a priority to cripple…