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Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) [1] was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
The Horse Soldiers. The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair 's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of ...
A politically charged new thriller in theaters now, Civil War is a film that's been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.From writer-director Alex Garland ...
Trial started November 1, 1917, Fort Sam Houston. The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [ 1][ 2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred within a climate of overt hostility ...
Kirsten Dunst is great as a veteran war photographer in Alex Garland's "Civil War," a terrifying look at where our political divisions could lead. 'Civil War' is one of hardest movies to watch ...
ABC. Release. April 12, 1993. ( 1993-04-12) Class of '61 is a 1993 American war drama television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. [1] It focused on men who were classmates at West Point and separated by the war between the North and the South. Filmed in Charleston, South Carolina ...
Sam Houston. Samuel Houston ( / ˈhjuːstən / ⓘ, HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate.