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The Sunnyvale Historical Museum was constructed as a replica of the Martin Murphy House, at Sunnyvale Heritage Park next to the Sunnyvale Community Center. It was dedicated and opened in September, 2008, as a testament to the history of Sunnyvale and the contributions made by the Martin Murphy family towards the founding of Sunnyvale.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
Sunnyvale (/ ˈ s ʌ n i v eɪ l, v əl /) is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.. Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield and NASA Ames Research Center to the northwest, Mountain View to the northwest, Los Altos to the ...
The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
Operation Rescue was founded by Randall Terry in 1986. [1] The slogan of Operation Rescue was "If You Believe Abortion is Murder, Act like it's Murder." [2] Randall Terry stepped down as director of Operation Rescue in early 1990, appointing Keith Tucci as his successor to lead the national organization, then called Operation Rescue National (ORN).
The 20-room home was located at 252 North Sunnyvale Avenue. [5] [7] [8] The Murphy family maintained their residency in the house until 1953. [9]: p18 The house was demolished in 1961 due to extensive termite and fire damage. [10] The Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum constructed a replica of the Murphy House next to the Sunnyvale Community Center ...
The United States Navy Department acted favorably on Commodore Sloat's recommendations, and Mare Island was purchased in July 1852, for the sum of $83,410, for the use as a naval shipyard. Two years later, on September 16, 1854, Mare Island became the first permanent United States naval installation on the West Coast, with Commodore David G ...
The 1954–1968 civil rights movement [a] in the United States was preceded by a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and racial segregation in the United States. The movement has origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century ...