Radical Party‚ he played a central role in politics after 1870. Clemenceau served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909‚ and again from 1917 to 1920. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Le Tigre" (The Tiger)‚ he took a very harsh position against defeated Germany and won agreement on Germany’s payment of large sums for reparations. Sophie Eucharie Gautreau Benjamin Clemenceau Georges Clemenceau
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American pastor‚ great orator‚ humanitarian‚ activist‚ and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was a Baptist Minister in 1955. He first came to limelight in the civil right movement when NAACP made Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the bus boycott initiated by Rosa Parks. King believed in non-violent protests like Gandhi. During the bus boycott‚ King was arrested and incarcerated for speeding. Even in prison‚ he urged the boycott to continue. His leadership
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the three pillars; ethos‚ pathos and logos. First‚ he must convince his audience‚ the clergymen‚ that he is credible and has good character. He does so by writing‚ "I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference." (King Jr.‚ 1963) He continues from that statement by saying that his group is associated with 85 other organizations. He also states that he has organizational ties to Birmingham which is why he is there. He is not trying to interfere‚ but rather
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15‚1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Martin’s birth name is Michael Luther king Jr. after his father’s name. MLk’s mother was a schoolteacher named Alberta king and his father was a Baptist minister named Micheal Luther King. MLK’s father changed both their names Michael to Martin to honor the German Protestant Martin Luther. MLK had an older brother named Alfred Daniel Williams King. Also‚ a sister named Willie Christine King.("Martin Luther King Timeline." Martin
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Letters from Birmingham Jail: An analysis. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail” is a response to a public statement issued by the eight Alabama Clergymen regarding the racial problems arising in Alabama. In the letter‚ King uses logical‚ ethical and emotional appeals to not only tackle the problem but also to address an excellent confutation to all the arguments put forth by the clergymen. While‚ King makes a strong arguments in response by using reasonable strategies while
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compensation‚ Alsace Lorrain was returned to France. Despite the fact that Alsace Lorrain was returned to France‚ Germany still had to pay for reparations. In 1919‚ Woodrow Wilson (president of USA) issued his fourteen points at the Versailles Conference in hopes of resolving the First World War and future wars‚ and also creating a lasting peace. The Fourteen Points included an end to secret treaties‚ freedom of the seas‚ free trade‚ a large scale reduction of arms‚ and self-determination. Wilson
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The movement for Black Power in the U.S. emerged from the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Beginning in 1959‚ Robert F. Willams‚ president of the Monroe‚ North Carolina chapter of the NAACP‚ openly questioned the ideology of nonviolence and its domination of the movement’s strategy. Williams was supported by prominent leaders such as Ella Baker and James Forman‚ and opposed by others‚ such as Roy Wilkins(the national NAACP chairman) and Martin Luther King.[10] In 1961‚ Maya Angelou‚ Leroi
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1950s and 1960s after so many years of oppression. Economic communities were giving colored people a hard time‚ and putting on humiliating racial signs. Aiming at several issues‚ in 1963‚ Dr. king’s organization‚ the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was invited to Birmingham to aid one of its affiliates in protesting intense segregationist policies. Though practicing nonviolent resistance‚ Dr. King was jailed in Birmingham for parading without a permit and willing to accept the penalty
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Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ is a direct response to his fellow clergymen about their criticism for his actions in Birmingham. Being from Atlanta‚ King was in Birmingham because he was invited their by his Southern Christian Leadership conference affiliate from Birmingham‚ to stage a non-violent protest. King says he was mainly there because injustice was there. He explains that he cannot sit by and in Atlanta and not be concerned about what was happening in Birmingham‚ because “injustice
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for the war by illuminating and drawing from their civil rights background. Martin Luther King begins by harkening back to his civil rights roots to proclaim his disapproval. He notes that it was the vision of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to not “limit (their) vision to certain rights for black people”1‚ but for world where their descendants and all of America was free. However he believed that Vietnam was taking this away from America and that it was “detroy(ing) the deepest hopes
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