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In the wake of the settlement, students and members of the Negro community expressed their dissatisfaction with the community's elder black leadership decision to postpone desegregation. [6] On March 10, 1961, a mass meeting was held at Warren Memorial with over 2000 people in attendance.
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Small pens were used to contain "30 to 40 people" at once. [49] Many people were detained longer than 24 hours on relatively trivial charges. [50] [51] One was a 23-year-old Montreal student arrested for disorderly conduct and released three days later. "He says he spent a total of 57 hours between the pier and Central Booking, during which ...
The Thompsons, a Black couple, rented to the Dongs, a Chinese American family, 85 years ago when nobody else would. Now, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students because they ...
Ekistics is the science of human settlements [1] [2] including regional, city, community planning and dwelling design. Its major incentive was the emergence of increasingly large and complex conurbations, tending even to a worldwide city. [3]
Crowd science professor Keith Still estimated the total attendance at 300,000 to 600,000 people, or one-third the estimated 1.1 million to 1.8 million people that attended Obama's 2009 inauguration [3] [140] [141] – which set a record for the total number of people in the National Mall at any one given time, [142] and which marked the ...
The price per pound of cotton plummeted from $1 at the end of the Civil War to an average of 20 cents in the 1870s, nine cents in the 1880s, and seven cents in the 1890s. [70] By 1898, it had fallen to five cents a pound -while costing seven cents to produce. [71] Once-prosperous planters suffered significant hardship.
Nearly half of China’s urban areas comprising 29% of the country’s population are sinking faster than 3 millimeters per year, according to a new study.