I say the third option, the Roman Catholics have a Pope (Francis), and the Eastern Orthodox Church has a emperor and a patriarch (Bartholomew I).
A. One of the main conflicts had been the October War of 1973 -- also known as the Yom Kippur War (in Israel) and the Ramadan War (in Arab nations). That war had been by a coalition of Arab states, led by Egypt and Syria, against Israel. Israel had won and was occupying the Sinai peninsula.
B. The three key leaders involved were President Jimmy Carter of the United States, Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
C. It was monumental for these leaders to meet -- especially the leaders of Israel and Egypt, because they had been in conflict with one another since the establishment of Israel in 1948.
D The years since the Camps David Accords have seen a sustained peace agreement between Israel and Egypt -- one of the few lasting peace agreements in the Middle East.
B. African American men were granted the right to vote.
- Only days after the end of the American Civil War, in 1865, Frederick Douglass, elected president of the <u>Convention of Black Americans</u>, spoke during a meeting of the African Slavery Society, explaining why the black men required the right to vote and the need to make justice for them. Here is an excerpt of what his speech:
<em>“…If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag for the government, he knows enough to vote…What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.”
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- Thus, in 1869, while this issue was being discussed in the Congress, 150 black men from several states gathered for the <u>Convention of Black Americans</u>, which took place in Washington, D.C. and was the first one in the U.S. history.
- After debating in the Congress, the 15th Amendment, which granted male African American the right to vote, was finally adopted in 1870. Moreover, the Article 1 of such Amendment states that <em>"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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