These two men are the first to come to mind when I think of the founding of our Nation. I feel that they shaped the United States into what it is today. Although we have strayed away from their idea of what the nation should be and stand for they without a doubt put their stamp on the World. “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” [ (Beschloss, 2009) ] Choosing only five presidents for my bottom five proved to be a harder task then I had thought. At the top of my bottom five I would have to put George W. Bush in the number one slot.
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He was known as the “Black Menace” and was born in Galveston, Texas. Johnson was America’s first black Heavyweight champion. People often saw his job not only as a boxer but pissing off white people. He was very well-rounded boxer that loved fast cars, fancy suits, and white women. After the fight against Tommy Burns that gave him his title as the heavyweight champion, he became a hero to the blacks suffering under slavery.
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Many people in cities not experiencing racism began to question the nation's Jim Crow laws and the treatment of African American citizens. This resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorizing the federal government to enforce desegregation of public accommodations and outlawing discrimination in publicly owned facilities. This also led to Martin Luther King receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964. From late 1965 through 1967, King expanded his Civil Rights Movement into other larger American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles. But he encountered more criticism and public challenges from young black-power leaders.
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more than any other race. They have faced segregation, racism, violence, and of course slavery. Finally seeing the progress and success of the race with one of their own being elected President for the first time in history, with reason, becomes overwhelming. But if blacks truly care about the progress of their race, they need to do what they as people have been begging others to do throughout history, and that’s look past a man’s color and into his heart or in this case, his agendas. Barack Obama may claim he loves the black community, but his agendas and causes that he is promoting say otherwise and consequently, will kill more and more blacks
When he entered office he was dealing with a spit party, and several unclaimed member who were angry with the Democratic Party. Eisenhower was forced to handle the task of doing the best for our country and trying to keep his party pure. Eisenhower was clear successes due in part to his moderate foreign policies, and he successfully ended the Korean War. In 1960 however, the Republicans would lose the presidency again to the young democrat, John F. Kennedy. In a book by Robert Rutland he said that this was when change was bound to strike the party.