Mervy Michael HIST 366-001/ Prof. Moran Final Paper 12/2/14 Topic 2: Protest versus Accommodation: The W.E.B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington Debate Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois are revered as two of the most important figures in black history. Booker T. Washington was born a slave to a black mother and white father. Throughout his whole life he was quite poor and from a young age worked in salt mines. Through a scholarship, however, he was able to study at Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute of Virginia and years later he graduated in 1875.
John Pierpont Morgan was born into a distinguished New England family on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut. One of his maternal relatives, James Pierpont (1659-1714), was a founder of Yale University; his paternal grandfather was a founder of the AETNA Insurance Company; and his father, Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-90), ran a successful Hartford dry-goods company before becoming a partner in a London-based merchant BANKING firm. After graduating from high school in Boston in 1854, Pierpont, as he was known, studied in Europe, where he learned French and German,
Derek Yung Cor 100 Senator: Robert Wagner Robert Wagner was born in Nastätten[->0] (Federal Republic of Germany[->1]) and immigrated with his parents to the United States[->2] in 1885. His family settled in New York City[->3] where Mr. Wagner attended public school. He graduated City College[->4] in 1898 and then went to pursue his graduate law degree at New York Law School[->5] in 1900. Robert Wagner represents the democratic party, he was elected to the United States Senate[->6] in 1926[->7], and then elected again in 1932[->8], 1938[->9] and 1944[->10]. He resigned on June 28, 1949, because of heart health issues.
Sir Titus Salt was born on the 20th of September 1803. He was the first of 7 children and aspired to be a doctor. In 1822 he moved with his family to Bradford to concentrate on the booming textiles business. In 1833, after Titus married his wife Caroline in 1830, Titus’ father passed away leaving Titus to inherit the family business. Throughout the next two centuries Titus continued his rise to fame becoming Mayor of Bradford in 1848 and working towards making conditions in factories better for workers.
Roosevelt won this election and Truman moved from being a Senator to becoming Vice-President of the United States. Truman took the oath of office in January 1945. Truman’s ancestors had owned slaves. His first recollection of African Americans was a household servants within his family - and he did not come from a prosperous family. While he was dating his future wife Bess, she claimed that he told her that he felt that one person was as good as any other as
Tom Roberts. Painting 1- “holiday sketch at Coogee” Painting 2- “Sheering the Rams” Thomas Roberts was born on the 9th of March 1856 and passed away on the 14th of September 1931. Roberts was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School. Roberts was born in England, he migrated with his family to Australia in 1869. Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists.
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɨdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe.
Dante Frederick Mr. Hansrote April 1st, 2015 Outline: Franklin D. Roosevelt Date of Birth January 30th, 1882 Date of Death April 12th, 1945 Educational Background Homeschooled until the age of 14 Graduate of Groton School Attended Harvard University and Columbia University Occupations Prior to Presidency Lawyer Governor of New York Term(s) in Office 4 terms in office Opponent(s) in Election(s) Herbert C. Hoover Alfred M. Landon Wendell L. Wilkie Thomas E. Dewey Vice President(s) John N. Garner (1932-1940) Henry A. Wallace (1940-1944) Harry S. Truman (1944-1948) Political Party Democrat Domestic Affairs American Agricultre Act First and Second "New Deal" Great Depression Foreign Affairs The "New Deal" World
White 1 Josh white Botany/zoo Mrs.Helt 26 September 2012 Charles Lyell Charles Lyell was the son of a wealthy gentleman who had inherited a large estate in Scotland. He was born in Born November 14, 1797 and he died on February 22, 1875 Lyell went to university at Exeter College, Oxford. Later he moved to London where he planned to become a barrister. However his poor eyesight made this profession impossible and so Lyell turned to his real interest- science. Geology soon became his forte and as member of the Geological Society, he took part in the lively debates in the 1820s about how to reconcile the biblical account of the Flood with geological findings.
loool In 1903 veteran socialist Tom Mann spoke to a crowd of a thousand people at the unveiling of the Eight Hour Day monument, funded by public subscription, on the south side of Parliament House on Spring St before relocating it in 1923 to the corner of Victoria and Russell Streets outside Melbourne Trades Hall It took further campaigning and struggles by trade unions to extend the reduction in hours to all workers in Australia. In 1916 the Victoria Eight Hours Act was passed granting the eight-hour day to all workers in the state. The eight-hour day was not achieved nationally until the 1920s. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court gave approval of the 40-hour five-day working week nationally beginning on 1 January 1948. The achievement