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Taps performed in Arlington National Cemetery (summer and winter)
The buglers of The United States Army Band Pershing's Own perform over 5000 missions a year in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA.
Featured here are SSG Jesse Tubb (summer) and SSG Drew Fremder (winter)
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum omitts Eisenhower 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts
In December 2017, a Civil Rights Museum opened in Jackson Mississippi. Charles Marsala of Save Nola Heritage toured on December 27, 2017.
The Museum omits displaying information on the Civil Rights Acts by Republican President Eisenhower in 1957 and 1960.
In 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating into a public school in Arkansas, the first time the federal government had sent troops to the South since the Reconstruction era.[2] In 1955 and 1956 there were physical assaults against suspected activists and bombings of schools and churches in the South. As a result, the Eisenhower administration proposed legislation to protect the right to vote by African Americans.
The goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote. By 1957, only about 20% of African Americans were registered to vote, blacks had been effectively disfranchised by discriminatory voter registration rules and laws since the 1870s by: literacy and comprehension tests, poll taxes and other means.
The Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, realized that the bill and its journey through Congress could tear apart his party, which had 30-50% opposed to civil rights. Johnson sent the bill to the judiciary committee, led by Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who proceeded to drastically alter the bill. The bill passed the House with a vote of 285 to 126 (Republicans 167–19 for, Democrats 118–107 for)[4] and the Senate 72 to 18 (Republicans 43–0 for, Democrats 29–18 for). President Eisenhower signed it on September 9, 1957.
Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, an ardent segregationist, sustained the longest one-person filibuster in history (24 hours 18 minutes) in an attempt to keep the bill from becoming law.
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 was enacted May 6, 1960) as a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.
The new legislation was proposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his message to the 86th Congress on February 5, 1959, when he stated that every individual regardless of his race, religion, or national origin is entitled to the equal protection of the laws. President Eisenhower supported civil rights legislation. In his message to Congress, he proposed seven recommendations for the protection of civil rights:
• Strengthen the laws that would root out threats to obstruct court orders in school desegregation cases
• Provide more investigative authority to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in crimes involving the destruction of schools/churches
• Grant Attorney General power to investigate Federal election records
• Provide temporary program for aid to agencies to assist changes necessary for school desegregation decisions
• Authorize provision of education for children of the armed forces
• Consider establishing a statutory Commission on Equal Job Opportunity Under Government Contracts (later mandated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to create the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
• Extend the Civil Rights Commission an additional two years[2]
Louisiana Native Guard - omitted:
The Museum errs in who is lists as the first all African-American Regiment. The first would be the Louisiana Native Guard of 1,200 men from New Orleans who signed up to defend New Orleans from Union attack in 1861.
Perhaps the first African-American Unit was actually the 450 Free men of color of 1815 who fought in the Battle of New Orleans. But given that those men were part of 4,000 men enlisted for less than four weeks by Andrew Jackson, there is no specific Unit number assigned to them. Or maybe those men are the first integrated U.S. Military Unit?
Also Omitted: Benjamin & his son Isiah Montgomery of the Davis Plantation:
Joseph Davis allowed captive Africans on his plantation to retain money earned commercially, so long as they paid him for the labor they would have done as farmworkers. Thus, Montgomery was able to accumulate wealth, run a business, and create a personal library.
Benjamin was the first elected black official in Mississippi. Isiah was the first elected mayor in Mississippi. Isiah founded Mound Bayou Mississippi.
Patriot Guard Funeral Escort 7/1/15 [Santa Nella Village, CA]
Patriot Guard Riders Funeral Escort 7/1/15
Mt.Shasta,Ca To San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
(Santa Nella Village, CA)
Music Rights: (To Original Owners)
God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
One Hell Of An Amen -Brantley Gilbert
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue -Toby Kieth
American Soldier -Toby Keith
Made In America -Toby Keith
If You're Reading This -Tim McGraw
My Town - Montgomery Gentry
How to Save a Life - Military Tribute
Because of You - Military Tribute
Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning - Alan Jackson
Darren Walker: Samuel H. Kress Lecture in Museum Education: Reimagining New York City's Monuments
In his capacity as co-chair of the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, Darren Walker discusses the role of public monuments as reflections of who we were and who we aspire to be. The annual Samuel H. Kress Lecture in Museum Education is intended to further the study, understanding, and practice of museum education in the twenty-first century.
June 8, 2018
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Obituary of Rev. James A. (Mookie) London
James A. London
James A. Mookie London, 66, of Robinson, pastor of Willow
Grove Baptist Church, passed away Monday, May 26, 2014. Funeral
services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, May 31, at Mt. Olive Missionary
Baptist Church, 9997 S. 3rd St. Rd. in Downsville, with the Dr. T.E.
Malone as eulogist. Burial will follow at Mt. Olive Cemetery.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 30, at Lake Shore Funeral
Home, 5201 Steinbeck Bend, in Waco
James Andrew Garfield Mookie London was born March 30,
1948 in Asa, Texas, to the late Richard London Sr. and Edna Mae
Tucker. Mookie was raised on The Tucker Bottom by his
Grandparents the late Daunishie and Beatrice Tucker.
He attended Downsville schools and then was transferred to
Caver, where he graduated in 1966. After graduation, he joined
the
United States Air Force in 1967 where he served for four years.
After basic training, he came back to marry the love of his life
Whom he had known and pursued for many years to Marie Ann
Horne on December 1, 1967.
He accepted Christ in August of 1961 during
a day time revival at the Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist
Church where he also served as a deacon. He later accepted his
calling into the ministry in October of 1982. In March of 1984, he
accepted the duties as Pastor of Willow Grove Baptist Church
where he served for 30 years.
We all knew James was an entrepreneur ranging from: Packing
water out of the basement of a Laundromat while residing in
Denver, Realtor, Owner of a car lot, Insurance Salesman, Roofer,
Comedian, Mentor, Counselor and Farmer/Rancher. He was also
the first black to have a Septic License in McLennan County. One
of his life-long dreams was to be on the radio to spread God's
word. He was given the opportunity to co-host on KRZI with Rev.
Joe Montgomery every Sunday morning spreading and teaching
God's word. He was on the radio for several years, until his health
began to decline.
James was preceded in death by his sister, Pamela Tucker;
brother,
Booker T Montgomery, and devoted father and mother-in-law
Lee and Verneta Horne.
James A. is survived by his loving wife of 46 years. Margie
London; his two wonderful daughters Michele London McNeil
(Kenneth) of Ft. Stewart, Georgia; and Jennifer London Parker
(Michael) of Hewitt; a son, Derrick Thomas of Seattle,
Washington; four grandchildren whom he adorned. Donovan
Haynes, Makayla and Makenzie Parker of Kamryn Ann McNeil; a
devoted brother and sister-in-law that never left his side during
his illness, Bobby and Bernice Stevenson; six sisters, Patricia
London, Phillips (McGlover) of Chino, California, Gwendolyn Diane
Watford, Wanda Jean Montgomery, Valreece Tucker, Eddie
LaVerne Tucker and Essie Barnes all of Waco; two brothers
Richard London Jr. of Waco and Ivan Montgomery of Dallas,
Texas; brothers-in-law, Terrell Lee Horne, Willie James Horne
(Janie), and Cecil Horne (Marie) all of Waco; a devoted cousin,
Louise Wells who called every day to see how her baby was
doing; a cousin who was like a sister, Estella Jackson; and a host of
nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
Words cannot express the appreciation and love he had for his
devoted workers, whom he loved like sons, Keith Taylor, Clifford
Horne, Jody Glass and, Ben Clawson.
FAMOUS GRAVE TOUR - New York #3 (Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, etc.)
Welcome to Hollywood Graveyard, where we set out to remember and celebrate the lives of those who lived to entertain us, by visiting their final resting places. Today we continue our tour of New York City in the Bronx, where we'll find such stars as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Irving Berlin, and more.
Full list of stars visited today: Frankie Lymon, Billie Holiday, Lois Nettleton, Merlin Santana, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, Max Roach, Illinois Jacquet, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Miller, Irving Berlin, Ida & Isidor Straus (Titanic victims), Celia Cruz, Olive Thomas, Herman Melville, Lotta Crabtree, George M. Cohan, Oscar Hammerstein, Irene & Vernon Castle, Otto Preminger.
Thanks to our Patreon supporters, who help make these videos possible: Janet Elliot, Ren, Michele Kotick, Sean Leeds, Carl Stenger, Shawndelle Young,Trish McFerran, Bruce Murdock, Victoria Waldock, Curt Zimmerman, Charles Whelan, Marcos M, Scott DeVane, Ricardo Sanchez, Danielle Tripodi, Deb Blissick, Don Bass, Darrell Lee, Eve Devinsky, Jett, Matthew Periolat, Jennifer Hall, Curt DiCamillo, Lynn Eades, Gus Mohamed, Bree B, Michael Bawden, Scott Spencer, NWOZ007, Henry Vinson, Glenn Weyhausen, and Jason Young.
And additional thanks to those who helped us get to New York: George Smith, Eric Berry, Scott DeVane, Jared Walker, Karen Dinsfriend, Danielle Tripodi, Brandon Oaks, Tom Caldwell, Jerry Dickson, Theresa Guay, Ron Howes, Edward Donoghue, Mimi Ruth Stiver, Daniela Catelli, Mike Lodahl, Rosalie Campbell, Bob Harder, Alvaro Garcia, Tim Ellmann, Jakey Miller, Helane Solomon, Victoria Jakel, Ernest Phipps, Fabian Rojas, Samantha White, M L Sharinghousen, Tina BR, Clay Geiger, PE Thomas, Christine Mier, Shannon Mead, Bree Bowen, Mike Herman, Jen Leone, and Jason Young.
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Somebody's Wrong by Isham Jones
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MDWFP SRT Aids Marines After Aircraft Accident Near Greenwood, MS
On July 10, 2017 the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) Special Response Team (SRT) was dispatched to aid the U.S. Marine Corps and other local agencies in search and recovery efforts after a Marine aircraft crashed near Greenwood, MS.
The MDWFP SRT and Marines were successful in locating the remains of the 16 victims who died in the crash. They were also able locate and recover the majority of weapons, technology, and other sensitive military items across the 6-mile debris field.
Lynching of Lacy Mitchell and Willie Kirkland in Thomas County Part One
Part One of this Documentary series is on the lynching's in Thomas County, GA between 1877 - 1950. In this short we give a brief overview of what to expect in the upcoming documentaries and showing the monuments of the counties represented in Ga.
On August 29, 1930, in the small community of Five Forks, near Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Price and C. V. Moore arrived at the house of Alec and Minnie Lee Thomas. Alec Thomas was away driving his cotton to market in nearby Pavo, but his wife was home. The two men kicked in the doors and chased Minnie Lee Thomas into a field. They knocked her to the ground and, while her children stood on the porch calling for their mother, put a gun to her head and raped her, choking her each time she called for help. Price and Moore were both white. The Thomas's were black. Less than a month later, on September 24, a man attacked a nine-year-old white girl on her way home from school. Unhurt, but badly bruised and terrified, the girl identified her assailant as black and the white community of Thomas County moved into action. By nightfall a twenty-year-old convicted horse thief named Willie Kirkland had been arrested, and approximately one thou sand people soon converged on the stockade where he was in custody. Assurances from the local sheriff to the mob that no action would be taken until morning secured Kirkland's safety that night, but the next day nearly one hundred people again gathered out side of the county courthouse and overpowered the sheriff when he attempted to move Kirkland. A crowd of angry men hurried Kirkland away to nearby Magnolia Park where he was shot. His corpse was dragged through town behind a car and put on display in front of the courthouse. Three days later Minnie Lee Thomas's cousin Lacy Mitchell, who had been scheduled to testify at the trial of her rapists, was at home with his family when a small group of men arrived at his door and shot him in the stomach. Mitchell lingered for two agonizing days and in that time described his attackers to authorities. Suspicion immediately fell on Jack Bradley and Ed Allen. Thomas County began its second manhunt in a week, but this time the fugitives were white. These events, which were possibly the worst episodes of racial violence in the history of Thomas County, came at a time when such turbulence in the South was on the decline. There was nothing particularly unusual about any of the three episodes. The rape of black women by white men occurred with uncomfortable frequency in the Deep South. Allegations of rape or sexual assault by black men on white women frequently led to lynching: an execution without trial similar to the shooting of Willie Kirkland. As for Lacy Mitchell's murder, the death of a black man scheduled to testify against white defendants would not have surprised many people living in early twentieth-century Georgia.
The Georgia Historical. Quarterly Vol. LXXXVII, No. 1, Spring 2003
1 State o/Georgia'. Henry Price and C. V. Moore, Thomas County Superior Court (1930) , 156-65.
According to EJI - The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynching's of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 800 more lynching's of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.
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Song to Honor Our Military and Veterans
Never Forget
Honoring Veterans from WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, Iraq War, and Afghanistan War, as well as our Heroes from all the Wars of the United States, and all those who serve and have served to defend and protect this nation. Thank You and God Bless You Soldiers of a Higher Calling!
Lynching in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Lynching in the United States
00:03:30 1 Background
00:07:58 2 Name origin
00:08:28 3 Social characteristics
00:11:32 4 The West
00:14:42 5 Reconstruction (1865–1877)
00:18:48 6 Disenfranchisement (1877–1917)
00:23:19 6.1 Other ethnicities
00:26:20 6.2 Enforcing Jim Crow
00:33:30 7 Photographic records and postcards
00:38:22 7.1 Resistance
00:41:43 7.2 Federal action limited by the Solid South
00:44:53 7.3 Great Migration
00:46:53 8 World War I to World War II
00:47:04 8.1 Resistance
00:48:11 8.2 New Klan
00:51:26 8.3 Continuing resistance
00:57:00 8.4 Federal action and southern resistance
01:00:34 9 World War II to present
01:00:44 9.1 Second Great Migration
01:01:41 9.2 Federal action
01:03:36 9.3 Lynching and the Cold War
01:05:13 9.4 Civil Rights Movement
01:08:32 9.5 After the Civil Rights Movement
01:11:48 10 Effects
01:12:29 11 Statistics
01:18:30 12 Representation in popular culture
01:18:41 12.1 Literature and film
01:24:52 12.2 Strange Fruit
01:26:05 13 Laws
01:29:31 13.1 State laws
01:33:32 14 See also
01:33:41 15 Notes
01:33:49 16 Books and references
01:39:24 17 Further reading
01:43:36 18 External links
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Lynching is the practice of murder by a group by extrajudicial action. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 1800s, following the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s but have continued to take place into the 21st century. Most lynchings were of African-American men in the South, but women were also lynched, and white lynchings of blacks occurred in Midwestern and border states, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of blacks out of the South. The purpose was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate blacks by racial terrorism. On a per capita basis lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total. Native Americans and Asian Americans were also lynched. Other ethnicities (white, Finnish-American, Jewish, Irish, Italian-American) were occasionally lynched.
The stereotype of a lynching is a hanging, because hangings are what crowds of people saw, and are also easy to photograph. Some hangings were professionally photographed and sold as postcards, which were popular souvenirs in some parts of the U.S. Victims were also killed by mobs in a variety of other ways: shot repeatedly, burned alive, forced to jump off a bridge, dragged behind cars, and the like. Sometimes they were tortured as well, with body parts sometimes removed and sold as souvenirs. Occasionally lynchings were not fatal (see Lynching survivors in the United States). A mock lynching, putting the rope around the neck of someone suspected of concealing information, might be used to compel confessions.According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.Lynchings were most frequent from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. Lynchings were often large mob actions, attended by hundreds or thousands of watchers, sometimes announced in advance in newspapers and in one instance with a special train. However, in the later 20th century lynchings became more secretive, and were conducted by smaller groups of people.
According to Michael Pfeifer, the prevalence of lynching in postbellum America reflects lack of confidence in the due process judicial system. He links the decline in lynching in the early twentieth century with the advent of the modern death penalty: legislators renovated the death penalty...out of direct concern for the alternative of mob violence. He also cites the modern, racialized excesses of u ...
List of memorials to Jefferson Davis | Wikipedia audio article
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List of memorials to Jefferson Davis
00:00:08 1 Sculpture
00:04:55 2 Schools
00:06:57 3 Inhabited places
00:07:26 4 Miscellaneous
00:10:29 5 See also
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The following is a list of the memorials to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials | Wikipedia audio article
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
00:01:59 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Academic commentary
00:09:03 3 History of removals
00:10:10 4 Organizations encouraging monument removal
00:10:48 5 Destruction of monuments
00:12:00 6 Laws hindering removals
00:14:20 7 Public opinion
00:15:04 8 What to do with the plinths (pedestals)
00:16:59 9 Removed monuments and memorials
00:17:09 9.1 National
00:17:29 9.2 Alabama
00:19:13 9.3 Alaska
00:19:39 9.4 Arizona
00:20:12 9.5 Arkansas
00:20:50 9.6 California
00:22:55 9.7 Colorado
00:23:13 9.8 District of Columbia
00:24:18 9.9 Florida
00:31:38 9.10 Georgia
00:33:25 9.11 Kansas
00:34:12 9.12 Kentucky
00:35:31 9.13 Louisiana
00:41:48 9.14 Maine
00:42:06 9.15 Maryland
00:44:50 9.16 Massachusetts
00:45:12 9.17 Mississippi
00:45:46 9.18 Missouri
00:46:42 9.19 Montana
00:47:14 9.20 Nevada
00:47:41 9.21 New Mexico
00:47:56 9.22 New York
00:48:47 9.23 North Carolina
00:54:18 9.24 Ohio
00:55:19 9.25 Oklahoma
00:55:49 9.26 South Carolina
00:56:27 9.27 Tennessee
00:59:55 9.28 Texas
01:08:04 9.29 Utah
01:08:20 9.30 Vermont
01:09:14 9.31 Virginia
01:15:51 9.32 Washington (state)
01:18:29 9.33 Wisconsin
01:19:40 9.34 Canada
01:20:08 10 See also
01:20:51 11 Further reading
01:23:37 11.1 Video
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For decades in the U.S., there have been isolated incidents of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, although generally opposed in public opinion polls, and several U.S. States have passed laws over 115 years to hinder or prohibit further removals.
In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, several municipalities in the United States removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America. The momentum accelerated in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The removals were driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion of slavery. Many of those who object to the removals, like President Trump, believe that the artifacts are part of the cultural heritage of the United States.The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877–1954) and the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968). Detractors claim that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy. The monuments have thus become highly politicized; according to Eleanor Harvey, a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a scholar of Civil War history: If white nationalists and neo-Nazis are now claiming this as part of their heritage, they have essentially co-opted those images and those statues beyond any capacity to neutralize them again.In some Southern states, state law restricts or prohibits altogether the removal or alteration of public Confederate monuments. According to Stan Deaton, senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society, These laws are the Old South imposing its moral and its political views on us forever more. This is what led to the Civil War, and it still divides us as a country. We have competing visions not only about the future but about the past.
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,848 days. After four runs for U.S. President (three as a Democrat and one on the American Independent Party ticket), he earned the title the most influential loser in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher.
A 1972 assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed, and he used a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. He is remembered for his Southern populist and segregationist attitudes during the mid-20th century period of the African-American civil rights movement and activism, which gained passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s to enforce constitutional rights for all citizens. He eventually renounced segregationism but remained a populist.
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Clarksville, TN - Ft. Defiance Flag History
An explanation of confederate flags and history. Civil war reenactment at Fort Defiance, Clarksville, TN.
Battle of Nashville | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Nashville
00:00:34 1 Background
00:00:43 1.1 Military situation
00:06:30 2 Opposing forces
00:06:39 2.1 Union
00:08:06 2.2 Confederate
00:08:53 3 Thomas prepares to attack
00:11:15 3.1 Naval actions
00:12:32 4 Battle
00:12:41 4.1 December 15
00:12:49 4.1.1 Actions on the Confederate right
00:14:16 4.1.2 Actions on the Confederate left
00:16:46 4.2 December 16
00:16:55 4.2.1 New disposition of Confederate army
00:18:43 4.2.2 Thomas's plan
00:19:04 4.2.3 Union attack on Peach Orchard
00:20:01 4.2.4 Union attack on Shy's Hill
00:21:45 4.2.5 Confederate left flank disintegrates
00:22:23 4.3 Hood's retreat
00:24:43 5 Aftermath
00:24:52 5.1 Casualties
00:26:06 5.2 Reactions and effects
00:26:43 6 Battlefield preservation
00:27:36 6.1 Battlefield memorials
00:28:28 6.1.1 Minnesota Monuments
00:28:50 6.1.2 United States Colored Troops Monument
00:29:13 6.1.3 Shy's Hill Memorials
00:30:00 6.2 Historic homes and buildings
00:32:00 6.3 Privately owned but publicly accessible sites
00:33:56 6.4 Driving tour
00:34:16 7 See also
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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and Federal forces under Major General George H. Thomas. In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.
African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) | Wikipedia audio article
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The African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld separate but equal racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy—serve as milestones. This was an era of new beginnings, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
After the Civil War, the US expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment only outlawed slavery; it provided neither citizenship nor equal rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. All persons born in the US were extended equal protection under the laws of the Constitution. The 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote. During Reconstruction (1865–1877), Northern troops occupied the South. Together with the Freedmen's Bureau, they tried to administer and enforce the new constitutional amendments. Many black leaders were elected to local and state offices, and many others organized community groups, especially to support education.
Reconstruction ended following the Compromise of 1877 between Northern and Southern white elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. This followed violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled Southern white Democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the South. The compromise and withdrawal of Federal troops meant that white Democrats had more freedom to impose and enforce discriminatory practices. Many African Americans responded to the withdrawal of federal troops by leaving the South in what is known as the Kansas Exodus of 1879.
The Radical Republicans, who spearheaded Reconstruction, had attempted to eliminate both governmental and private discrimination by legislation. That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give Congress power to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals or businesses.
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The African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld separate but equal racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy—serve as milestones. This was an era of new beginnings, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
After the Civil War, the US expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment only outlawed slavery; it provided neither citizenship nor equal rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. All persons born in the US were extended equal protection under the laws of the Constitution. The 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote. During Reconstruction (1865–1877), Northern troops occupied the South. Together with the Freedmen's Bureau, they tried to administer and enforce the new constitutional amendments. Many black leaders were elected to local and state offices, and many others organized community groups, especially to support education.
Reconstruction ended following the Compromise of 1877 between Northern and Southern white elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. This followed violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled Southern white Democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the South. The compromise and withdrawal of Federal troops meant that white Democrats had more freedom to impose and enforce discriminatory practices. Many African Americans responded to the withdrawal of federal troops by leaving the South in what is known as the Kansas Exodus of 1879.
The Radical Republicans, who spearheaded Reconstruction, had attempted to eliminate both governmental and private discrimination by legislation. That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give Congress power to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals or businesses.