Patrick Haley. February 21, 1905. -- Ordered to be Printed
Title | Patrick Haley. February 21, 1905. -- Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 1905 |
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Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1376 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Law |
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Transactions of the Supreme Council of the 33d and Last Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America
Title | Transactions of the Supreme Council of the 33d and Last Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America PDF eBook |
Author | Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 988 |
Release | 1905 |
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History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Title | History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760 PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Douglas Larned |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Windham County (Conn.) |
ISBN |
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps
Title | Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Tulsa Race Riot
Title | Tulsa Race Riot PDF eBook |
Author | Oklahoma Commission to Riot of 1921 |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2001-02-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781530785001 |
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the worst civil disturbance since the Civil War. On May 21, 1921, a group of white Oklahomans attacked the prosperous African American community, called the Greenwood District or "the Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, OK over the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man. 24 hours later more than 800 people were admitted to local hospitals, 10,000 residents were homeless, and 35 city blocks were reduced to rubble. The monetary cost of the riot was later estimated to be 26 million dollars. This report examines the events leading up to the riot, the riot itself, and the consideration of reparations for the victims.
The Last Utopia
Title | The Last Utopia PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674058542 |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.