early twentieth century iowa teacher becomes african rancher
Library of Congress . Elizabeth Faint Mackenzie raised Percheron draft horses in South Africa . . ..…
black power during the other ’68
In North, in this year, there was wild talk of using troops to dissolve Congress and arrest its leaders and in South thousands on thousands of Black people thronged the dusty roads, shouting defiance and demanding division of the loaves and fishes. ... In South Carolina, the..…
monthly review
In South Africa, the embrace of neoliberalism by the African National Congress-led government has left one of its partners and original backers, the trade union movement, demoralized. ..…
no money, no vote: how imposed fines, fees and cost keep black people
In 1870, Fifteenth Amendment prohibited states from using race or African-Americans in South voted and elected African-American representatives to Congress. ..…
who will become the next president of south africa?
South Africa is governed by Tripartate Alliance of ANC, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions and this ANC alliance has fractured into multiple competing groups each headed by sort of warlord, said Eric Louw, professor at University of..…
washington's death penalty debate
The world-wide trend has been away from capital punishment; among the advanced industrial nations, only the U.S and South Africa continue to impose the death penalty. . City officials are furious at Congress for what they see as a deliberate pandering to local anger at crime. ..…
fight ahead over law on hate crimes
'After all we've been through in this country in the last couple of years, and all the hate crimes we've seen, I just don't see how we can possibly walk away from this session of Congress and not pass this,' Clinton told reporters during an Oct. 25 news conference on the South Lawn. ..…
charleston and the crucible of race and class
Congress' enthusiasm for Reconstruction waned under the twin pressures of how to reorganize the South and deal with a restive new industrial working class in the North. ..…
the civil war convulsion
With western territories entering the Union as free states, Republican control of Congress (as well as the presidency, and eventually the Supreme Court) would be assured. Even in the deep South, slave owners would see the writing on the wall and give up the unwinnable fight—suing, in..…
road to immirgration reform - opinion
What should the top priority be for Congress in immigration reform? . . ... South Bend Tribune/SANTIAGO FLORES . . . . . MIKE DELPH . Republican state senator from Carmel, Ind., who has helped author state immigration measures . ..…
the court & the right to vote: a dissent
In view of the changes that have occurred in South, identified in the statute violates unwritten rule requiring Congress to treat all of the states as equal sovereigns.. ..…
union support for palermo’s workers’ strike tops 15 million people
*South Central Federation of Labor (representing 94 labor organizations) 30,000 members . *American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) national, 12 million members . ..…
on the death sentence
The Warren Court was still “operating as an engine of liberal reform”; in 1964 Lyndon Johnson won a landslide victory; in 1965 Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act, dramatically changing electoral practices in the South; and in 1966 a Gallup poll found that most Americans opposed the..…
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