Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and made the land fertile for growing crops. Moreover, goods and people could be transported easily, and the people in these civilizations could fish and hunt the animals that came to drink water.
<span>He sang spirituals to Antonin Dvorak. At that period, Dvorak was in charge of the orchestra at the National Conservatory which had African –American men from St.Philips as part of it. Burleigh played the double bass and the tympani and assisted Mr. Antonin Dvorak. Both men developed a great relationship. Burleigh having learnt old plantation songs from his grandmother, which were later regarded to as spirituals, would sing to Mr.Antonin Dvorak after supper when Dvorak was tired.</span>
Although Parks was not the first resident of Montgomery to refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger, local civil rights leaders decided to capitalize on her arrest as a chance to challenge local segregation laws. ... The boycott was so successful that local civil rights leaders decided to extend it indefinitely.
The boycott garnered a great deal of publicity in the national press, and King became well known throughout the country. The success in Montgomery inspired other African American communities in the South to protest racial discrimination and galvanized the direct nonviolent resistance phase of the ci
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.
