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Charley Darkey Parkhurst (born Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst; [1] January 17, 1812 – December 28, 1879) also known as "One-Eyed Charley" or "Six-Horse Charley", was an American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
The Freedom Riders challenged this status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the ...
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There is a reference to Zwerg in a scene of the 1961 Soviet film Kogda derev'ya byli bol'shimi (Когда деревья были большими) (English: When the Trees Were Tall) where Inna Gulaya is an article from a U.S. newspaper describing a Freedom Riders demonstration where Zwerg: "was thrown off the bus and his face was smashed ...
The following is a list of episodes from the series Spirit Riding Free. Episodes Series overview Series Episodes Originally released 1 6 5 May 2017 (2017-05-05) 2 7 8 September 2017 (2017-09-08) 3 7 17 November 2017 (2017-11-17) 4 6 16 March 2018 (2018-03-16) 5 7 11 May 2018 (2018-05-11) 6 6 17 August 2018 (2018-08-17) 7 7 9 November 2018 (2018-11-09) 8 6 5 April 2019 (2019-04-05) Pony Tales 1 ...
Passengers who circumvent payment turnstiles are "free-riding" on the train. In economics, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods and common pool resources [a] do not pay for them [1] or under-pay. Free riders may overuse common pool resources by not paying for them ...
The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative.. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, [1] is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually ...