Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Chester White is the most durable of the white breeds; it can gain as much as 1.36 pounds (0.62 kg) a day and gain 1 pound (0.45 kg) for every 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of grain it is fed. Their pale color leaves Chester Whites prone to sunburn; they must be given access to shade in the summer.
The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a week-long protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the city buses of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The boycott was launched on June 19, 1953 by African-American residents who comprised 80% of bus riders in Louisiana's capital city, and yet were barred under Jim Crow rules from sitting in the front rows of a municipal bus.
Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith ’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr . in an assassination attempt.
History of Louisiana. New York: Redfield. Volumes I, II, and III; King, Grace; John R. Ficklen (1900). A History of Louisiana (4th ed.). New York: University Publishing Company; Le Page Du Pratz, Antoine-Simon (1774). The History of Louisiana Or Of The Western Parts Of Virginia And Carolina. London: T. Becket
June 10 – The murder of Ben Chester White led to the KKK being legally held responsible for one of its member's action. Summer – The Chicago Open Housing Movement , led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel [ 41 ] [ 42 ] and Al Raby , includes a large rally, marches, and demands to Mayor Richard J. Daley and the City of Chicago which are ...
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.
United States v. Louisiana , 382 U.S. 288 (1965), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the state of Louisiana 's entitlement to the lands, minerals and other natural resources underlying the Gulf of Mexico .