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* 1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws.
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His compositions for piano include In Sleepy Hollow ( 1913 ), Five American Dances ( 1919 ), Adirondack Sketches ( 1922 ), Mongoliana ( 1922 ), Eastern Seas ( 1925 ), Sold Down the River ( 1928 ), Pantomimes ( 1933 ), Fourth of July ( 1935 ), Here Are Ladies ( 1944 ), Jesuit's Journey ( 1947 ), Central Park, Colonial Suite, Flower of Old Japan, Knee-High to a Grasshopper.
On April 10, 1947, CORE sent a group of eight white ( including James Peck, their publicity officer ) and eight black men on what was to be a two-week Journey of Reconciliation through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky in an effort to end segregation in interstate travel.
In 1947, FOR and the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, which had been founded by FOR staffers James Farmer and George Houser along with Bernice Fisher, sponsored the Journey of Reconciliation, the first Freedom Ride against southern segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision.
The mobilization and logistics of the actual march itself was administered by deputy director Bayard Rustin, a civil rights veteran and organizer of the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, the first of the Freedom Rides to test the Supreme Court ruling that banned racial discrimination in interstate travel.
* Moreau de St .- Mery's American Journey 1793-1798 ( 1947 ) ( English translation, with Anna M. Roberts ) -- history
Amongst other classic movies based on his work are Journey Into Fear ( 1943 ), starring Joseph Cotten, and an original screenplay, The October Man ( 1947 ).
Gregg Alan Rolie ( born June 17, 1947, Seattle, Washington, United States ) is an American keyboardist, organist, and singer, who is one of the founding members of the bands Santana, The Storm, Abraxas Pool and Journey, for whom he was the original lead singer.
Her many successes include A Successful Calamity ( 1917 ), A Little Journey ( 1918 ), Spring Cleaning ( 1923 ), The Distaff Side ( 1934 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( which she also directed, 1939 ), When We Are Married ( 1939 ), Ladies in Retirement ( 1940 ), The Pirate ( 1942 ), Ten Little Indians ( 1944 ), Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1947 ), and The Madwoman of Chaillot ( 1948 ).
In 1947, after the Supreme Court's finding ( in Morgan v. Commonwealth ) that segregation in interstate travel was unconstitutional, Houser helped organize the Journey of Reconciliation, a plan to send eight white and eight black men on a journey through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky to test the ruling.
His major work is the 1995 PBS documentary, You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow !, which is a chronicle of the Journey of Reconciliation, the first Freedom Ride of whites and blacks traveling through the Upper South in 1947 to challenge segregation in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's Irene Morgan decision.
He spent three and a half years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, was on the first of the “ freedom rides ” ( then called the “ Journey of Reconciliation ”) enforcing desegregation in 1947 and was the first national field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality.
Nelson Participated in the first Freedom Ride ( then referred to as the " Journey of Reconciliation ") in which people purposefully rode in the “ wrong ” seats ( blacks in the front, whites in the back ) in 1947.
Beginning with Body and Soul ( 1947 ), Gregg made more than 45 films, including Journey to Nowhere, Spencer's Mountain and I'll Cry Tomorrow.
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* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.
Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.
Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).
Li ' l Abner was censored for the first, but not the last time in September 1947, and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.
The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.
The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.
The passenger-miles figure, after being flat from 1965 – 1995, surpassed the 1947 figure for the first time in 1998 and continues to rise steeply.
The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.
The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.
However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.
The first to be born was the radical Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ) in February 1947, initially headed by Panamanian born Gabriel Lisette, but from 1959 headed by François Tombalbaye.
Band structure calculations was first used in 1930 to predict the properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor-based transistor, heralding a revolution in electronics.
The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.
Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.
This tradition dates back to the program timing matrix on the MIT Whirlwind, first described in 1947.
In 1987 Charlton also returned to Wembley for the first time since the 1947 FA Cup final for the Full Members Cup final against Blackburn.
A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948.
Censuses during independence have been taken 1947, 1960 ( the first comprehensive demographic investigation ), 1970, 1976 ( a sample census ), 1981, 1994 and 2004 and the next would be taken at 2017.
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