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Apartheid
Desmond Tutu’s Key Role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission

  By Virginia Choi • October 8, 2014 Uncategorized
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Colleagues such as Mary Burton of Archbishop Desmond Tutu discuss how he got involved with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid. The TRC reviewed thousands of statements from witnesses and victims of human rights violations during the apartheid as a method … Continue reading

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Cold War
President John F. Kennedy on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  By Ilana Faber • October 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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“I speak to you tonight in a spirit of hope”. On July 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation regarding the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, also known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty. Explaining the treaty, he says: “Negotiations were concluded in Moscow on a treaty to ban … Continue reading

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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II: First Pontiff To Visit The White House

  By Ilana Faber • October 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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On October 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff to visit the White House. In the video above, Jimmy Carter addresses the media following an hour-long meeting with the Pontiff in the Oval Office. Of their discussion, President Carter noted: “We share a belief that the church … Continue reading

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American Civil Rights Movement
James Meredith Admitted to Ole Miss

  By Ilana Faber • October 1, 2014 Uncategorized
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“I’ve always been at war with a system, not people”. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African-American student admitted to the University of Mississippi. Meredith’s enrollment sparked protests and riots at the University’s campus, causing President Kennedy to call in troops from the U.S. Marshals, U.S. Army … Continue reading

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American Civil Rights Movement
WERD AM – The First Black-Owned Radio Station

  By Ilana Faber • September 25, 2014 Uncategorized
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WERD AM in Atlanta, Georgia, began operating on October 3, 1949, becoming the first black-owned radio station in the United States. The radio station was in the same building as the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose leader was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was a … Continue reading

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World War II
Neville Chamberlain on Signing the Munich Agreement

  By Ilana Faber • September 25, 2014 Uncategorized
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On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived in Great Britain with a signed copy of The Munich Agreement. Dated September 29, The Munich Agreement allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia that were predominately inhabited by German speakers, designating this territory “Sudetenland”. Czechoslovakia was not present at … Continue reading

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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bill Clinton on How He Met Hillary Clinton

  By Virginia Choi • September 20, 2014 Uncategorized
Bill Clinton on How He Met Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recalls how he admired Hillary Rodham Clinton, his future wife, from afar while they were both students at Yale Law School. Clinton did not, at the time, want to get into a serious relationship so he tried to avoid Rodham until she decided to come … Continue reading

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John F. Kennedy
Televised Presidential Debate Between JFK & Nixon

  By Virginia Choi • September 19, 2014 Uncategorized
Televised Presidential Debate Between JFK & Nixon

On September 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy–a young senator from Massachusetts at the time–and Vice President Richard Nixon squared off in a hour-long debate–the first-ever televised presidential debate. While Kennedy looked confident, healthy and dapper; Nixon seemed sickly and underweight from a recent hospitalization. Approximately 74 million viewers noticed the … Continue reading