Jackson County, Texas

Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was a politician from Georgia, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Jackson was the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any other city in the South. Jackson was the second longest serving mayor of Atlanta. He served three terms from 1974 to 1982 and from 1990 to 1994. Jackson was born on 1938, in Dallas, Texas. His family valued education and politics. His mother Irene graduated from Spelman College, she was a Professor of French. His father Maynard

Texas Texas is a state that is dearly loved by its inhabitants, and even some who do not live there. Despite how many people love it, there are a lot of people who dislike Texas and the pride Texans have for it. Texas fought for independence from a country much larger than itself, and then chose to become a part of the United States, while still reserving the right to secede. Many people do not take into accord the reasons why Texans are so proud. Perhaps the most famous Texans are men who weren’t

other activists for equal human rights. This came with some of the most publicized actions, the police officer in Selma who would not let four African Americans register to vote, Martin Luther King Jr. being arrested and thrown into jail, and Jimmy Jackson being shot because he was protecting his mother from getting beaten. The march helped put forth the action of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of

David, “Davy,” Crockett, also known as the, “King of the Wild Frontier,” was born August 17, 1786 in Greene County, Tennessee. He was one of nine children born to a family who followed the movement of western settlement. As a young boy, around eight years old, his father taught him to shoot a rifle and he eagerly accompanied his brothers on hunting trips. At the age of thirteen his father insisted that he enroll in school but only after a few days he got into an altercation with a bully and ran away

In 1817, John Calhoun was appointed as Secretary of War by President Monroe, in which during his term, he made substantial changes to the War Department. Calhoun served two terms as Vice President: in 1825 with John Quincy and in 1829 with Andrew Jackson. In 1832 he quit his Vice President position and returned to South Carolina as a Senator, a position which he held for eleven years. In

(Mergel, 2013). Many state courts using social media as a part of their communications strategies have already created formal social media plans. The King County, Washington courts and the Judicial Branch of Michigan both maintain guidebooks for the use of social media (King County, Washington, 2016 and Michigan Supreme Court, n.d.). These documents discuss not only social media strategy, but also issues pertaining to legal

health and safety of the family unit. The purpose of this paper is to present a family assessment of the Latcherie family, Jackson, Shelby, and Jack Jr., as depicted in the movie Steel Magnolias (Stark & Ross, 1989). The movie was viewed on September 5, 2017, to obtain an initial assessment of the Latcheries. A subsequent viewing was

Michael Beam Professor Taylor U.S History 18 April 2016 Race and Race Based Slavery Race has played an uncomfortably important role in History. From rich white land owning slave holders, producing mass amounts of The roles of race have played such a large existence in history, as the Civil War has very strong links with slavery. The desire to own humans as workers and to see them as nothing less than that had started a war between the North and the South. Backtracking a bit, there had been previous

As defense enterprises developed and numerous specialists went off to war, businesses experienced intense work deficiencies. Women and African Americans entered the work industry in expansive numbers to address these deficiencies, and interim specialists from Mexico, or braceros, through the Bracero Program, a 1942 work assertion between the United States and Mexico. A standout amongst the most genuine occurrences of segregation happened amid World War II in the Zoot-Suit Riots of Los Angeles. The

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Tara E. Cale Butler County Community College The Assassination of John F. Kennedy On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald committed a crime that would go down in every history book in the United States. The assassination of our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is one of the most notorious, tragic events in U.S. history to date. It was rare for the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, to accompany her husband to any political outing. This particular day