(1954) Brown v.s. Board of Education
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The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917. The awards are made by Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university.
Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for:
3. For sitting in the "wrong" part of the bus.
In 1951, afro-american citizens were segregated in many public places, one of them the buses. They were supposed to sit in the back of the bus, leaving the front available for white people. Bradford was arrested for breaking this rule while asking the driver to charge her the right price for the trip, which was too high. She was asked twice to go to the back of the bus without her request so, as a protest, she sat in front. Bradford was charged of disorderly conduct. Though a neighbor bailed her, the criminal record followed her for life as an obstacle to find a job.
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Hannibal made one major tactical error: He did not attack and capture Rome when he had the opportunity.
Hannibal conducted his operations in Italy not as one campaign in a larger war but as the only campaign in the only war. He seemed to hold to the conviction that if he won enough battles, he would win Italy. And if he won Italy, victory over the Roman people would be his. Battles are the means to a strategic end, not ends in themselves. Hannibal was a sworn enemy of the Romans and he let his emotions cloud out that fact when he launched the second Punic War. He could win every battle, but he did not apply those battles to wining the war.
There seemed to be some confusion between tactics and strategy in his mind. This caused him to commit a number of operational failures that led to his eventual defeat in Romes heartland.
The Carthaginian senate had failed to send him critical supplies and troops when most needed. He had severe logistical problems. Tactics win battles, logistics win wars. There was no good reason why supply transports could not have gotten through to Hannibal.
Moronically, Carthage’s strategic shift away from Italy after Cannae came at a time when Hannibal’s momentum was at its full. Cannae was an absolutely devastating defeat for the Romans. Politics.
Hannibal was eventually called back to Carthage because of the military failures of his compatriots. The Romans had pushed into Carthaginian territory, and they needed reinforcements.
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