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Almost four decades after four girls were murdered, the last killer was put behind bars by Borgna Brunner Related Links Black History MonthEncyclopedia: Civil Rights Civil Rights…
Unpunished crimes revisited after decades of neglect by Borgna Brunner FBI photographs of slain civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Schwerner Related…
A "grotesque miscarriage of justice" by Borgna Brunner Related Links Black History MonthBlack History Time Timeline Encyclopedia: Civil RightsCivil Rights Heroes Martin Luther King…
(Encyclopedia) Peasants' War, 1524–26, rising of the German peasants and the poorer classes of the towns, particularly in Franconia, Swabia, and Thuringia. It was the climax of a series of local…
businessman, collectorBorn: 1856Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Mich. Educated in Europe and at Harvard Law School, he eventually took over the family lumber business. He served as director of several…
Born: 12/5/1782Birthplace: Kinderhook, N.Y. Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5, 1782, at Kinderhook, N.Y. After graduating from the village school, he became a law clerk, entered practice in 1803…
Born: 1863Birthplace: Thompson, Ohio Manufacture of aluminum—Hall discovered the modern electrolytic method of producing aluminum cheaply which enabled the metal to be put into wide commercial use…
rancherBorn: 7/21/1832Birthplace: Boonville, Mo. Henrietta Maria Morse Chamberlain was an only child whose mother died when she was three. Her father, a Presbyterian missionary in Missouri and…
