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    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” These were words spoken by the one of the civil rights activists Martin L. King Jr. The civil rights movement fought for racial equality for everyone. There were many nonviolent protests that turned violent because of the white Americans. Rosa Parks was a big activist, long before she refused to give up her seat on a bus. There were so many African Americans who got harassed and even killed

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    John W Poland's Life

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    would be born. Poland was described as having a fair complexion with gray eyes and light hair. He was about five and eleven inches tall. He was occupied as a clerk for the most of his life. Poland mustered into the "B" Co. MA 3rd Cavalry on April 1st, 1864 in Prescott, Pennsylvania, near where he was living in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania at the time. The 3rd MA Cavalry originated from

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    Title: Sherman’s March to the Sea Name: Institution: Name of Facilitator: Course Name and Number: Date: Abstract This paper describes a campaign that helped decide the American Civil War. A General of the Union army named William Tecumseh Sherman helped lead a campaign that started in Georgia go the sea in Savannah, and finish to help aid the main forces in the Carolinas. During this march the soldiers lived off the land and the Southern people’s food and burning anything

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    Programme Notes

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    Programme Note: DipABRSM | Date: 1st June 2009 | | Word Count: 1,085 words | | | | | Partita for solo violin no.3 in E, BWV 1006 J.S Bach (b. 21 March 1685 in Eisenach;d. 28 July 1750 in Leipzig) Bach was the son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. It is probably from his father that he learned the fundamentals of music. The Bach family throughout Thuringia had held positions

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    the national spotlight as a publicly recognized and discussed issue. Throughout the civil rights movement, there were quite a few people who influenced it very strongly. Some of these people are Rosa Parks, Huey Newton, and most of all Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, GA. Martin went on to be pastor and a huge component in the civil rights movement and the progression of racial equality in America. Dr. King was a huge advocate for civil disobedience

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    During the Pride parade in Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter demonstrators laid in the street to stop the march. The parade was being led by a police escort and police officers were intertwined with the Pride participants. Due to recent acts of police violence, people were outraged by their presence in a march meant for liberation. Complaints started rising from the protesters as they met the concrete. Their fight for justice was much harder to achieve when temperatures were reaching 100*

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    the operational risks. The events of March 4th of 2002, on the mountain ridge of Tahkur Ghar, later known as "Robert's Ridge," are a good example of leaders who overlooked red flags of the mission and ended up being a part of one of the fiercest battles in the Afghanistan War. Operation Anaconda started on March 2nd of 2002 when operational planners laid out the scheme of movements for 2nd Battalion (BN), 3rd Brigade (BDE), 101st Airborne Division, and the 1st BN, 2nd BDE, 10th Mountain Division

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    civil rights’ movement. Growing up as an African American racial discrimination had surrounded King and Park making it hard as colored people were unfairly treated. Both King and Park knew the inequalities and sought education to aid themselves in their unfair life. Despite this, Park and King were brought up responsibly by their parents, King was an active civil rights activist, participating in the ‘Montgomery Bus Boycott’, ‘March on Washington’ and led the ‘Selma to Montgomery march’. Rosa Parks

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    with the draft and ultimately the war. On April 30th, 1970 the current president Richard Nixon announced that the American forces would expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The expansion angered many Americans and a demonstration was held on May 1st on Kent State University and then later agreed to be held again on May 4th. Beside the Universities efforts to ban the gathering, two thousand students attended to protest the Vietnam war. The Ohio Army National Guard was called to the university to

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    and misery. There were a several protest that Martin Luther King Jr directed previous to the march which led him to it; for example, The Montgomery bus boycott in 1965-66 which was against a racial segregation on the public transit system, the protest began on Dec 1st, 1955 after an African American women was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white person (CITE 3), The Albany movement in November, 1961 which was to protest city segregation policies, Martin Luther King Jr was arrested

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