Nigerian Civil War

In 1642, when King Charles I entered the House of Commons seeking the arrest of the five Members alleged to have supported the Scottish invasion against his reign, he not only created Parliamentary history, but also laid the foundation of what is known today as ‘Parliamentary Privilege’. In response to King Charles I’s questions about the whereabouts of these Members, the Speaker William Lenthall famously remarked that “I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the…

Today, our society is still going through many struggles and hardships in life especially dealing with race and skin color. There are people who suffers from situation that led them through troubles. Most of the people that went through many challenges in life are black men. According to Robinson, Wolfers, and Paumgarten articles, they all have one thing in common is what black men have to endure because of what they look like, their skin color, their dress code, and what type of person they…

Just after the civil war America entered into what was called as the reconstruction era. This era “had a social as well as a political meaning. The social aspect involved the touchy issue of race relations, particularly the fate of about 4 million black ex-slaves.” (Schriefer…

Slavery in ancient Roman history was important to philosophers today and in the past. Slavery is what makes us have a path for our future. To the African Americans that were in slavery write the future of people like me and you. In this paper I will be introducing the times slavery happened in ancient Rome and I will also explain what they did and how they did it. Another thing I will be talking about in my essay is who came into power and how it happened. Who took over and why they did. I will…

provided war strategies to UNITA, and together with their allies, the South Africans, fought in the civil war in Angola against the Soviet supported MPLA. Similarly, the MPLA were provided with all their war needs by the Soviet Union, and also roped in their allies, the Cuban military troops. Due to the large amount of money that was pumped into funding the MPLA and UNITA, the war was thereby prolonged, as the resources provided by the United States and the Soviets enabled the civil war which…

Why slave trade ended The biggest slave trade events happened during the 1800s when developing countries needed people to finish the large amount of work in fields. The business was very profitable, slaves were expensive but durable, and these factors were the key to slave trade flourishing. Slaves didn’t have human rights, they were not human, but more like objects used for profit. In short, slaves were dehumanized into property. Slave owners treated their slaves as their own property, slaves…

The Civil War started because the North and the South had different viewpoints on slavery. The South wanted to keep slave workers because they enhanced their businesses, which helped their economy. But on the opposing side of things, the North wanted African Americans to be free of slavery and unfair treatment.The Civil War altered American's perspective of freedom and equality because, before the Civil War, freedom and equality wasn’t a right for slaves and women. Initially, the Civil War…

type of man that he would grow up to be. On May 19,1925, in Omaha Nebraska, a Civil Rights activist was born. That Civil Rights activist was named Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father was an activist himself during his time, and he was an honest baptist minister. The Ku Klux Klan despised his father’s activism and made threats to him and his family. The Klu Klux Klan was a hate organization that was created after the Civil War that consisted of white supremacist that had a great loath for african…

The first section assigned to the reading is composed of the autobiographical portion, where Robert Wedderburn retells the story of his childhood and life as a freedman with an enslaved family. Some of the brutalities include his father making his mother “the object of his brutal lust then insulted, abused, and abandoned” (45). This is the basic reason he detests his father. He describes his father as a Christian man from Scotland who was a slaveowner, and then he follows this with the tale of…

In 1875, the Civil Rights Act was established which strived for equal rights among all races and ethnicity however it wasn’t long until African Americans were once again seen lower than their white peers. In 1883, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional and this ruling meant that individuals and private organizations could discriminate racially as they please. This was because the Fourteenth Amendment says that States could deny any citizen equal protection of…