African-Americans in the South after the Civil War were new to the concept of freedom, yet that very small two syllable word meant a lot to them. Slaves were not considered as a piece of property that could be used and abused by their slaveholders anymore. Slaves families were separated by the effects of slavery, so the freed slaves immediately tried to reunite with their families. News finally reached Texas about slaves being freed on June 19th, 1865, also called Juneteenth. Juneteenth is considered one of the oldest known celebrations that commemorated the end of slavery in the United States. The news of the Emancipation Proclamation did not reach Texas until about two years after its public awareness because there was little Union
Christopher Matthewson also known as “Big Six”, “the Christian gentlemen”, “Matty”, and “Gentleman’s Hurler” played Major League Baseball and was a right handed pitcher and played seventeen seasons with the New York Giants. He was voted the most dominant pitcher in the history of baseball and is ranked in the top ten in many key pitching groups, including wins, shutouts, and ERA, if taking 19th century pitchers statistics into account. Otherwise Matthewson and Walter Johnson would hold the distinction of being the only two pitchers placed in the top ten in both career wins and ERA. In 1936 Christopher got called to be into the Major League Baseball Hall Of Fame, as one of its first couple players. (Wikipedia)
Reston is a census-designated place located in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County, about 20 miles north of Washington D.C. Containing four artificial lakes (among which Lake Anne and Lake Thoreau are the most famous), the town encompasses a total area of 17.4 square miles. According to the 2010 census, Reston’s population
At dawn, on April 19, 1775, about 700 British troops arrived in Lexington, afterward stormed to Concord. The Regulars, also called redcoats, tried to find our hidden weapons. They advanced to Lexington first. Luckily, 77 militiamen came to our aid. Yet the Regulars made it past Lexington, only to find difficulty in Concord. They would have not known if not for Paul Revere and William Dawes. They were spies who found out the Redcoats’ plan. Paul Revere gotten captured, however William Dawes went to warn Concord. As the Redcoats came into Lexington, it became utterly quiet. Then, without warning, somebody fired. It was unclear who did, nevertheless you and I shall bet it was the Redcoats. Eight of our militiamen were killed, while ten was injured.
Do you really know what the prohibition era? The prohibition era was indeed the banning of alcohol but it was also a creation to many problems. It solved men becoming violent to others but also created a way for the mafia to create a profit from the alcohol. Such as al Capone himself he inherited a bootlegging business from one of his former boss Johnny Torrio. One of the most famous murders from al Capone’s organizations was the valentine’s massacre. Production of any alcoholic beverage was illegal.
December 2 -5 Griffin called don, Rutledge a photographer to make a meeting. There have been calls from sepia asking Griffin “to do more stories about Atlanta (131).” December, 4, Griffin went to a hotel, where he was treated with kindness and they did it about his “Racial Purity
The person I am doing for my essay is Wesley Isenhour (my dad). He has a wife named Liane and two kids named Macy and Maddy. He works for the United States postal service and does reviews on post offices all around North Carolina. The reason I chose my dad
It is estimated that over 90% of today's NFL players have a brain issue even if they do not know about it. On average, each football player gets hit 2,500 times to the head in a career. The centers take about 25,000 tackles to the head in an average career if they go to the NFL. After 9 or 10 concussions, you probably have a disease in you. In the year 2015, there were 271 concussions, in 2014, there were 206, in 2013, there was 229, and in 2012, there was 261 concussions. That adds up to 967 in 4 years. Dr Bennett Omalu was the first doctor to find this brain issue, and he has a foundation to help the players and families that have suffered with this issue. He named it Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE is a brain disease that
When Bobby Adedge was 18 years old, he had already won two Olympic gold medals. By the time he was twenty-two, he had been a well-known goalie on a prestigious professional hockey team. He had married an even more famous supermodel, who had her own budding career as
Clendinnen explains why the captor wore the victim’s chalk and down of his kin and why he cried for the victim. She says that the captor did this because the captive was going to die a lonely death among strangers, since he was from outside Tenochtitlan. Even though, the captor’s kin ate from the captive, the captor didn’t do so, because he said he wouldn’t eat “his own flesh” since he too would probably die on the stone and others will eat his flesh in another city. Also, she interprets that the Aztecs didn’t necessarily believe that their were killing the warrior as he was before the rituals. Instead, all the preparation that had gone into this day, from the cutting of the warrior lock to the mock heart excisions, had made him more sacred, and changed him from a warrior into a victim. Once the warrior lock of hair was cut, it was believed that the warrior made his
Red Rodney was a famous trumpeter and bandleader in the 20th century. He was born in Philadelphia on the 27th of September 1927 and was known as a child prodigy when he was young (Voce, 2011). At the beginning, Red Rodney taught himself the trumpet and later he went to a school named “Jules E. Masterbaum Vocational” in his hometown Philadelphia to study trumpet (Schwab, 2010). Red started playing with Jerry World Orchestra only at the age of 15 and then he also played with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Gene Krupa (Chesky Records, n.d.). Red’s life was changed because of Dizzy Gillespie, who was Red’s hero when he was a teenager. Red was able to play a gig with Dizzy Gillespie one time at the Down Beat Club and he left Dizzy a lasting impression.
When Jerrie Cobb was a child, she enjoyed looking up in the sky. She wanted to be up there some day. To realize her dream, she learned to fly when she was 12 years old.
Jolson wanted to become a performer because of the singing he did at a young age. Asa Yoelson [who is known to most people as Al Jolson] was born in Serednik Russia (which is now Lithuania) in either 1885 or 1886. At the age of seven, he immigrated to Washington D.C, where pretty soon after his mother died (Friedwald 249-250) . As Will Friedwald says, Jolson enjoyed singing from a young age, he may have acquired a love of singing from his father. [So] he and his brother, Harry Yoelson would sing on street corners to earn money. Jolson also went to the theater whenever possible and soon [he also] discovered a deep desire to become a performer. [Even though] Jolson’s Father, Rabbi Yoelson, disapproved all music that all sung, it didn’t stop
Maurice Rabbs was born in 1932. He was raised in Shelbyville,Kentucky with his mom and dad.He is the son of Dr.Maurice Rabbs sr.His dad is a physician and civil rights activist.His mom Jewel Miller Rabb was also a civil rights activist.He’s the only child in the house.They live in Shelbyville,Kentucky until their house burned down then they had move to a house in Louisville,Kentucky.
Apera Tobiason is a thirty-four-year-old single mother of four daughters. On top of living with her four daughters, she also has four Chihuahuas. She works as a coach for soccer at The Enid Soccer Club and basketball at The YMCA. Though free time is rare for her, when she has the opportunity, Apera likes to visit casinos with her friends.