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Voting Rights After <i>Shelby v Holder</i>
States move to tighten voting rules after Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act Related Links Landmark Supreme Court Cases Civil Rights Timeline Eric Holder Supreme…The Right Stuff
Pioneer John Glenn Returns to Space by Michael Morrison For more information on the space program, check out the following links: Apollo 11 MoonwalkNotable Staffed Space FlightsU.S. Staffed…Consumers' Rights
The Question: We just recently moved and we dealt with a moving company that did a terrible job. Is there anywhere we can get information about our rights? The…Brewer's: Rights
Declaration of Rights. An instrument submitted to William and Mary, on their being called to the throne, setting forth the fundamental principles of the constitution. The chief items are…Reconstruction
(Encyclopedia) Reconstruction, 1865–77, in U.S. history, the period of readjustment following the Civil War. At the end of the Civil War, the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical…Börne, Karl Ludwig
(Encyclopedia) Börne, Karl LudwigBörne, Karl Ludwigl&oobreve;tˈvĭkh börˈnə [key], 1786–1837, German journalist, of Jewish origin. His original name was Löb Baruch. He studied medicine and…secession, in political science
(Encyclopedia) secession, in political science, formal withdrawal from an association by a group discontented with the actions or decisions of that association. The term is generally used to refer to…Mukwege, Denis
(Encyclopedia) Mukwege, Denis, 1955–, Congolese gynecologist and human-rights activist. He studied medicine at the Univ. of Burundi (grad. 1983) and worked as a pediatrician in a hospital in Lemera,…Women's Suffrage: The Fighting Forces
by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Crises of 1916The Decisive BattleThe Fighting ForcesIn the struggle from which the final woman suffrage victory was now about to emerge…black codes
(Encyclopedia) black codes, in U.S. history, series of statutes passed by the ex-Confederate states, 1865–66, dealing with the status of the newly freed slaves. They varied greatly from state to…