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Appeal and inspired
Though there is no evidence to suggest that the Appeal specifically informed or inspired Turner, the two events, which occurred just a few years apart, intensified white anxiety in the South about the potential for future insurrections and inaugurated the adoption of laws designed to strip free blacks of what little rights they enjoyed.

Appeal and blacks
Walker's Appeal argued that blacks had to assume responsibility for themselves if they wanted to overcome oppression.
Apap has drawn particular attention to a passage of the Appeal in which Walker encourages blacks to “ ever make an attempt to gain freedom or natural right, from under our cruel oppressors and murderers, until you see your ways clear ; when that hour arrives and you move, be not afraid or dismayed .” Apap has interpreted Walker ’ s words as a play on the Biblical injunction to “ be not afraid or dismayed .” As he points out, “‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ is a direct quote from 2 Chronicles 20. 15, where the Israelites are told to ‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ because God would fight the battle for them and save them from their enemies without their having to lift a finger .” In the Bible, all the Israelites are expected to do is pray, but Walker asserts that the black community must " move.
Three months after Walker died, for instance, the Boston Evening Transcript noted that blacks regarded the Appeal " as if it were a star in the east guiding them to freedom and emancipation .” Whites, meanwhile, were radicalized by reading Walker's pamphlet.
The Appeal heightens our understanding of the pernicious effects of both slavery and the subservience of and discrimination against free blacks, who threatened the existing racial order by confounding the notion that to be black was to be enslaved.
He also oversaw the development of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Bishop's Annual Appeal, and ministries for blacks and Hispanics, pro-life activities, and the disabled.

Appeal and abolitionist
The Appeal was for an anthropocentric assessment of the world's resources and a utilitarian as opposed to abolitionist approach to hazardous substances used or created by technology.
* June 28-David Walker, abolitionist, author of the pamphlet Walker's Appeal ( born 1785 )
Grimké, though initially embarrassed by the letter ’ s publication, refused, and the letter was later reprinted in the New York Evangelist, other abolitionist papers and was also included in a pamphlet with Garrison ’ s noteworthy Appeal to the Citizens of Boston.
Her letter to Garrison and Appeal to the Christian Women of the South gave Grimké a considerable amount of national recognition as a figure in the abolitionist movement, which enabled her to participate in many anti-slavery events, even though she was female.
Angelina wrote her first tract, " Appeal to the Christian Women of the South ( 1836 )," to encourage southern women to join the abolitionist movement for the sake of white womanhood as well as black slaves.
* September – David Walker begins publication of the abolitionist pamphlet Walker's Appeal.

Appeal and movement
The Heidelberg Appeal has been enthusiastically embraced by critics of the environmental movement such as S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project.
Although individuals and groups had emerged with differing degrees of commitment to equal rights for black men and women by the 1820s and 30s, no national anti-slavery movement existed when the Appeal was published.
Chicago attorney and devoted Trotskyist Albert Goldman, who entered the SP about a year earlier than his comrades, launched a factionally-oriented newspaper called The Socialist Appeal, while Cannon headed west to Tujunga, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, to launch a western paper oriented to the trade union movement called Labor Action.
In 1950, as a Canadian delegate to the World Peace Council in Stockholm, Endicott sat on the committee that drafted the Stockholm Peace Appeal which was the petition that began the international " Ban the Bomb " movement.
In Bucharest, attached to the Court of Appeal, Densuşianu became involved with the nationalistic movement in favor of a Greater Romania.

Appeal and .
We said there that it was necessary `` that a registrant be given an opportunity to rebut ( the Department's ) recommendation when it comes to the Appeal Board, the agency with the ultimate responsibility for classification ''.
As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.
Only when a decision is rendered by the District Court of Appeal ( or, of course, the Supreme Court ) is a binding precedent established.
The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.
The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.
However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.
This section applies only to Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court.
* The Creation: An Appeal To Save Life on Earth, a 2006 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson
The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial, which was granted.
Therefore, judgments from the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal have greater authority than the lower courts such as the High Court and the County Court.
Rosenthal continued to file an appeal in the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
In October 1985, the California Supreme Court rejected Rosenthal's appeal of the multimillion-dollar judgment against him for legal malpractice, and upheld conclusions of a trial court and a Court of Appeal that Rosenthal acted improperly.
DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.
Portions of Misskelley's statements to the police were leaked to the press and reported on the front page of the Memphis Commercial Appeal before any of the trials began.
Just as important, Thompson was, with Ken Coates, Mary Kaldor and others, an author of the 1980 Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament, calling for a nuclear-free Europe from Poland to Portugal, which was the founding document of European Nuclear Disarmament.
The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Summary Court and the Magistrates ' Court.
From the Supreme Court, appeals are sent to the Falkland Islands Court of Appeal, which is based on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Court of Appeal consists of a President and two Justices of Appeal, as well as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who serves as an ex officio member.
The President and Justices of Appeal are normally from the UK and are Judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Appeals from the Court of Appeal are sent to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, which essentially is the same body as the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.

inspired and blacks
After 1783 the ranks of free blacks expanded markedly, due both to manumission of the enslaved in the South during the first two decades after the Revolutionary War, attributable both to slaveholders inspired by its ideals and to others inspired to manumission by Quaker, Methodist and Baptist preachers active in those years.
Their number increased dramatically in the Upper South in the first two decades after the Revolution ; for instance, by 1810, fully 10 percent of the population in the Upper South were free blacks, as numerous slaveholders manumitted their slaves in this period, inspired by Revolutionary principles of equality.
In another, Memín decides not to receive Communion at his church, after a cruel boy tells him blacks are not allowed in Heaven, pointing to the lack of black angels in religious paintings as proof ( this was inspired by a popular song " Angelitos negros " that asked the same question and a popular Mexican motion picture of 1948 of the same name ).
Critics and scholars, however, question if Jupiter's accent was authentic or merely comic relief, suggesting it was not similar to accents used by blacks in Charleston but possibly inspired by Gullah.
Partly inspired by those Caribbean events, free blacks and slaves in Venezuela carried out their own uprisings in the 1790s led by José Leonardo Chirino and José Caridad González.
The KKK's revival was inspired in part by the movie Birth of a Nation, which glorified the earlier Klan and dramatized the racist stereotypes concerning blacks of that era.

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