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4 days ago · Because many people have suffered, bled, and died” to obtain the right to vote. One of those people, says Cook, is Edward Hall — a Black St. John the Baptist Parish man who sued for his right to vote in the 1940s with the help of a young Thurgood Marshall.
2 days ago · Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858-1927) was nicknamed "The Great Defender" for his ability as an orator and penchant for getting many clients accused of famous murders off the hook. Which of the following was NOT one of the cases he worked on?
3 days ago · The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall), the bell today is located in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park.
3 days ago · The Knights of Columbus presented a check to Catholic University of America on the steps of the university's McMahon Hall in 1904 to establish a Chair of American History Since its earliest days, the Knights of Columbus has been a "Catholic anti-defamation society."
2 days ago · MERSHAM was given by one Siward and Matilda his wife, to the monks of Christ-church, though Somner in his Roman Ports, p. 110, says, that king Etheldred, (who died in 1016) granted it to that priory, with the privilege of several denberries in the Weald, and the same year he granted to them free-warren, and other liberties, and king Edward the ...
1 day ago · The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173.8 billion in 2024) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
4 days ago · Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, delivers vital propulsion systems and hardware, flagship launch vehicles, world-class space systems, state-of-the-art engineering technologies and cutting-edge science and research projects and solutions for NASA.
