the Scottsboro jail. The trial begins on April 6th‚ and everyone crowds around gather outside Courthouse Square. April 7th-9th‚ Victora Price testifies that six of the boys had raped her‚ and six of the boys raped Ruby Bates. Eight of black boys‚ Clarence Norris‚ Charlie Weems‚ Haywood Patterson‚ Olen Montgomery‚ Ozie Powell‚ Willie Roberson‚ Eugene Williams and Andy Wright were tried‚ convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution. Roy Wright‚ one of the youngest boys‚ was hung by jury. The executions
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successful. Edward immediatly destroyed the remaining Lancastrian castles and tried to strengthen his power base by allowing a selected number of the nobility to help him‚ including Warwick‚ Montagu and Herbert. He also ordered the execution of the Earl of Oxford and his son after he discovered plots to kill the King. Then Edward‚ marched his army north where a Lancastrian- Scottish force invaded England‚ and defeated them.
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Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and their dependencies. She was born on April 21‚ 1926 and was already known to take the place of her father’s throne‚ since she was the only child. She was baptized in the Private Chapel on the grounds of the Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth was named after her mother‚ in whom her two middle names were given from her paternal great-grandmother‚ Queen Alexandra‚ and her grandmother‚ Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth’s
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The Warren Court The 1960’s was an evolution of change in American history. When Earl Warren became Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1953 it made the most dramatic changes and held a far more liberal view than any other Supreme Court before. Some of its most important rulings were on African-American civil liberties. The Supreme Court changed American law on segregation in schools‚ criminal procedure‚ and privacy rights. Before the Warren Court the American law treated blacks as second class citizens
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story‚ written by a Detroit native‚ David Maraniss. In his novel‚ set in Detroit around the 1960’s‚ he follows the numerous changes in society underway in detroit but also seen countrywide. Maraniss excels at bringing to light numerous issues regarding the economy‚ social life‚ political issues and other important themes we constantly see in history. I have chosen to expand on the social issues David Maraniss pointed out and explain how they have had long term effects
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In the blossoming era of the blues only three short years after it went mainstream the “Empress of the Blues” began her career. She was a strong black woman with a rags-to riches story who was able to rise from performing on the streets to be the most successful blues singer in her era. Her music and life is filled with sex and violence and while many blues singers have come and gone‚ very few ever made such an impact with such a short career as she did. In 1923 her first recordings‚ “Down Hearted
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Mіrаndа vs. Arizona Introduction Mіrаndа vs. Arizona was а case that consіdеrеd the rights of the dеfеndаnts in criminal cases in regards to the power of the government. Indіvіduаl rights did not change with the Mіrаndа decision; however it created new constitutional guidelines for law enforcement‚ attorneys‚ and the courts. The guidelines ensure that the individual rights of the fifth‚ sixth and the fourteenth amendment are protected. This decision requires that unless а suspect in custody
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According to the attitudinal model‚ Justices cannot be constrained by Congress nor the Executive branch‚ this constraint caused proponents to resist opposing results by those testing the rational choice to determine if the Justices act strategically in predicting congressional responses (Segal & Spaeth‚ 2002). “Scholars typically gravitate toward one of two opposing views about how justices make their decisions. On one side‚ attitudinalists argue that “institutional features designed to secure judicial
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residents of their property 3. a national vote should be held to decide the legality of slavery 4. the economic well-being of the western states depended on slave labor 3) The decisions of the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona‚ Gideon v. Wainwright‚ and Escobedo v. Illinois all advanced the 1. voting rights of minorities 2. guarantees of free speech and press 3. principle of separation of church and state 4. rights of accused persons 4) An immediate result of the Supreme Court
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· Thomas Adams‚ inventor of chewing gum · Mary Anderson‚ inventor of car windshield wipers · Alexander Graham Bell‚ inventor of the telephone · Edward Binney‚ co-inventor of Crayola crayons · Clarence Birdseye‚ inventor of commercial frozen food · Joseph-Armand Bombardier‚ inventor of the snowmobile · Willis Carrier‚ inventor of air conditioning · Josephine Garis Cochrane‚ inventor of the dishwasher · George de Mestral
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