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... unions and immigrant rights organizations, eighteen buses of Immigrant Workers Freedom Riders from across the country converged on Washington, DC, and New York in the fi rst week of October.1 Freedom Riders visited more than one hundred cities and logged more than...

... crowds attending the World’s Columbian Exposition. The show was new and improved, as was reflected clearly in its recently extended title: it was henceforth referred to as Bufalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. As will be seen, the new format of Bufalo Bill’s Wild...

... crowds attending the World’s Columbian Exposition. The show was new and improved, as was reflected clearly in its recently extended title: it was henceforth referred to as Bufalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. As will be seen, the new format of Bufalo Bill’s Wild...

... H. Roll Twenty-seven masked white men pulled M. R. Adkisson, a Gideon, Missouri, land- lord, from his home on the night of November 1, 1915, and led him into a nearby cot- ton field. There the band of night riders threw Adkisson to the ground, held him...

... From February 1889 until the summer of 1891 a clandestine group of night riders known as Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps) clashed with commercial ranchers, land speculators, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad in the northwest- ern grasslands of New Mexico. The White Caps cut...

... of segregation and confront the viewer with everyday realities of life in the Jim Crow South.19 A replica of the burned-­out Free- dom Riders’ bus is accompanied by haunting news coverage of the mob violence Melton | Toyi-Toying in Birmingham   183 that greeted...

... the buses and cars. Journey members arranged their seats so that both white and black activists could effectively challenge Jim Crow. On most of the trips, at least one black rider sat near the front, while at least one white rider moved to the back. “We were...

..., and Dickens, and Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard—I still have my original H. Rider Haggard volumes. My grandmother brought those back. She used to work for this wealthy white woman in the suburbs. She used to do her hair. She would bring back these sets. I had a whole...

.... The march and rally, with some six thousand participants and hundreds of local activists serving as marshals to protect undocumented immigrants, was the largest turnout to welcome the Freedom Riders before they reached Washington, DC, and New York City. For many...

... of political and military kinesis, a ”steam engine in trousers.” “The Almighty God and the just cause are with me,” he shouts to his Rough Riders during his ”crowded hour” at San Juan Hill. “Gentlemen, charge!” By its commitment to this distillation of history through the intensely personalized...

... — then a local clique of young men who identified as cholos, zootsuiters, and low riders. Many of them relocated to neighboring communities, which were also rival gang territories. The resulting struggle over changing territorial boundar- ies began to play out on the Sunset walls in the form of antagonistic...

...? There is also a gap in Cummins’ account of the heroic lineage from Chessman to Cleaver that somewhat obscures the links between ”good” and ”bad” sixties. In the first half of the decade, the southern civil rights movement produced some genuine “convict heroes”: the Freedom Riders who filled the state...

... (Hunter Parrish), describes how a class film about the Freedom Riders of the 1960s influenced him personally. As he speaks, the camera pans Gruwell’s students watch- ing a black-and-white documentary film. Ben narrates as scenes play of a bloodied and bruised Jim Zwerg, a White youth who volunteered...

... Security: A Hisfory of their Interaction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991); Robin E. Rider, “Operations Research and Game Theory: Early Connections,” in E. Roy Weintraub, ed., Toward a History of Game Theory (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992); Stephen P. Waring, Taylorisrn...

... the mobs to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, the firehosing of men, women, and children in Birmingham in 1963, and the brutal beating of the Freedom Riders shocked much of white America into an awareness that some changes had to come, and moved many white and black Americans...

... must include a red-baiting rider. ...

... green coconuts to create a thirst quenching drink called coco frio. Machetes are still strapped to the backs of bare chested horseback riders who gallop along the side of country roads, and in every garden and field they are used to whack weeds and clear brush. Source: Delano, Mio, 9...

... is as exhilarating as its pastiches. Because McClintock is also interested in dismantling traditional geographies, Imperial Leather begins with a map-Rider Haggard’s sketch of the route to King Solomon’s Mines-which she subtitles “the lay of the land.” In her reading, the map represents not just...

... riders stopped traffic on cross streets so that the mass could run red lights with less fear of colliding with cars. ...

... dispersed their states' terrorist night-riders in 1868-69, their legislative representativesconsistently opposed unsepgated public access and black office-holding and looked askance at any measures that might inexease taxation. As a group, they provided African-Americans with tenuous allies at best...