Galesburg, Illinois

Another big Milestone was the story of Emmett Till In August 1955, a 14–year–old black boy from Chicago had recently arrived in Money, Mississippi to visit relatives. While in a grocery store, he allegedly whistled and made a flirtatious remark to the white woman behind the counter, violating the strict racial codes of the Jim Crow South. Three days later, two white men—the woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half–brother, J.W. Milam—dragged Till from his great uncle’s house in the middle of…

Emmett Till was a young African American who was born on July 25 ,1941 . Emmett died on August 28, 1955 ,he was murdered for something that he did not do. This all took place when Till took a trip to Rural Mississippi to spend the summer with great uncle. Him and some friends went to a grocery store and one of Emmett’s friends dared him to talk to one of the stores cashiers, Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn reported that Till had whistled at her and touched her hand, Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant, and…

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, that got murdered While visiting family in Money, Mississippi. Bryant’s grocery is where Till and his friends went in to buy something the others left out of the store, and Till was still left in the store getting some gum. As Till left the store he saw miss Carolyn wife of store owner coming out and not think clearly Till whistled at her. Bryant’s husband and brother in law kidnapped Till at gunpoint. His body was found in the…

about Charley for a while now. he had been jabbering on about this so called ‘third level’ at Grand Central and a place called Galesburg, Illinois, I told him it was a waking dream wish fulfillment, but now I’m not so sure, he explained everything in such precise detail that it sounded so realistic, I had been talking to him for a while now, and he had told me about Galesburg as he was there as a child and absolutely loved it, I have no idea why he didn’t just move back, but that is none of my…

Chad Broughton in his book Boom, Bust, Exodus tediously goes through the ramifications of a constantly-evolving global supply chain buoyed by a relatively stable world, international trade, and freer capital in the towns of Galesburg, Illinois and Reynosa, Mexico. On the American side, workers attempted to navigate this tumultuous economic landscape by scraping together the resources they could obtain, including corporate severance packages, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), and other benefits…

Douglas Debates of 1858 was seven different debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, which was the Democratic Party candidate. At the time of the election of the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were battling for the respective parties in the Illinois legislature. The debates showed the situations Abraham could have when he won the 1860 presidential election. The main debate…

Carl Sandburg was born of Swedish ancestry in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. He was the son of a laborer, rail blacksmith August Johnson, and Clara Anderson. His family chose the name Sandburg separating them from a confusing neighborhood of Johnson I believe the key phrase in Sandburg's is: "Knowing silence will bring all one way or another." And, I believe he's right. I've thought often, and written some, about the simple restorative power silence can have. meditation is submerging your senses…

Abraham Lincoln who was a republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois. Stephen Douglas who was a senator in the Democratic Party candidate. During the time United State Senators were elected by state legislatures. They were trying to win control of the Illinois legislature. They decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts of Illinois. The first debate was in Ottawa Illinois. Douglas charged Lincoln with trying to abolitionize the Whig and…

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas and the challenger, Abraham Lincoln. These were during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign for a Senate seat. Stephen Douglas was a member of Congress since 1843, He was a nationally prominent spokesman for the Democratic party. He was seeking reelection to a third term in the United States Senate. Lincoln was running for Douglas's Senate seat as a Republican. The campaign attracted…

“Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and the sunlit blossom of that flower” (Carl Sandburg). This is a quote by Carl Sandburg. Carl Sandburg is a famous American Poet. Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6th, 1878 (Penelope Niven). Sandburg’s parents are August and Clara Sandburg who were immigrants from Sweden (Penelope Niven). Sandburg and his family were extremely poor (Academy of American Poets). At the age of 13, Sandburg quit…