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Afeni Shakur was born Alice Williams on January 10, 1947, in Lumberton, North Carolina. [1] She had an older sister, Gloria "Glo" Jean. [2] [3] At the age of eleven in 1958, Williams and her sister moved to the South Bronx with their mother, a factory worker. [4] [5]
Before US President James K. Polk took office in 1845, the US Congress approved the annexation of Texas.After the annexation, Polk wished to affirm control of the region of Texas between the Nueces River, where Mexico claimed Texas's southern border to be, and the Rio Grande, where Texas declared the border to be when they declared independence from Mexico in 1836.
Taft and Porfirio Díaz, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1909. Díaz opened Mexico to foreign investment of Britain, France, Germany, and most especially the United States. Mexico–United States relations during Díaz's presidency were generally strong, although he began to strengthen ties with Great Britain, Germany, and France to offset U.S. power and influence. [7]
Moonlight Maze was a data breach of classified U.S. government information lasting from 1996 to 1998. [1] It represents one of the first widely known cyber espionage campaigns in world history. It was even classified as an Advanced Persistent Threat after two years of constant assault.
Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston is a 2005 book by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., published by the Texas A&M University Press. Brown, Not White discusses Chicano activism in Houston, Texas during the 20th century.
Mexico's anti-racist social movement has antecedents. The 1994 Zapatista uprising was billed as a revolution against neoliberalism, but also protested the marginalization of Indigenous communities.
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States is a history book by Ruben Flores about the connection between post-revolutionary Mexico and the American Civil Rights Movement. University of Pennsylvania Press published the book in 2014. It won the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award the next year.
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