The New Black Panther Party provoked a melee outside Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's campaign headquarters after she had lost a Democratic primary election to her opponent, Hank Johnson.

He played with Fletcher Henderson in 1930 and 1931, becoming his chief arranger in this time, then briefly led the Detroit-based McKinney's Cotton Pickers before returning to New York in 1932 to lead his own band, which included such swing stars as Leon " Chu " Berry ( tenor saxophone ), Teddy Wilson ( piano ), Sid Catlett ( drums ), and Dicky Wells ( trombone ).

" According to the Anti Defamation League, McKinney's use of the New Black Panther Party as security, given that organization's use of antisemitic and racist invective, and her failure to distance herself from that group, are " troubling.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

This was particularly important because it shows that Cotton Mather had influence in mathematics during the time of Puritan New England.

* Reiner Smolinski, " How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes: Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana ( 1690-1728 )," in, The New England Quarterly 81. 2 ( June 2008 ): 278-329

Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana ( 1693-1728 )" The New England Quarterly 81. 2 ( 2008 ) 278-329.

* Barrett Wendell, Cotton Mather, the Puritan priest, New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1891.

Takamine went as co-commissioner of the Cotton Exposition to New Orleans in 1884, where he met Lafcadio Hearn and Caroline Hitch, his future wife.

Cotton Mather, influential New England Puritan minister, portrait by Peter Pelham.

Panorama of the view from the fifth floor stairwell of the Cotton Building, Kelburn, New Zealand | Kelburn Campus.

* February 13 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister ( b. 1663 )

* December 16 – The World Cotton Centennial World's Fair opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds.

The tale is of interest because it was known to the New England Puritan divine, Cotton Mather.

" Cotton Tail ", " Main Stem ", " Harlem Airshaft ", " Sidewalks of New York ( East Side, West Side )", " Jack the bear ", and dozens of others date from this period.

* 1937: the Cotton Club, all the rage in New York, is put on at the Moulin Rouge ; Ray Ventura and his Collegians also appear.

In similar fashion, he lost the chance of an engagement at New York City's famous Cotton Club when he held out for more money ; young Duke Ellington took the job and subsequently catapulted to fame.

Later ( October 16, 1930 ), Hampton was recording with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra, and the studio they were working in happened to have a Deagan model 145 vibraharp.

A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873

One of Degas's New Orleans works, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, garnered favorable attention back in France, and was his only work purchased by a museum ( that of Pau ) during his lifetime.

Degas and the Business of Art: a Cotton Office in New Orleans.

In 1966 Hayes caught six passes for 195 yards against the New York Giants at the Cotton Bowl.

He was an editor of Progressive Farmer magazine before accepting an appointment in Washington, D. C., in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration as director of the Cotton Division of the New Deal agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

Edgar Degas, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873, Musée des beaux-arts de Pau.

Thomas Carter was sworn in by many of the most prominent men of New England including John Cotton, minister of the First Church of Boston, Richard Mather minister of the First Church of Dorchester, and Capt.

In the 1930s Burke played with several New Orleans based groups, including The Henry Belas Orchestra ( Trumpet: Henry Belas, Clarinet: Raymond Burke, Trombone: Al Moore, Drummer: Joe Stephens, and Pianist: “ PeeWee .”), The Melon Pickers ( Guitar: Henry Walde, Clarinet: Raymond Burke ) Bassist: John Bell, Drummer: Al Doria, Trumpet: Bill Nauin, and Pianist: Julius Chevez.

* Defiance Lantern & Stamping Company ( 1900-1930 ) in Rochester, New York, featured in an episode of American Pickers

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.