Two disturbing stories recently on the greens. First Spiegel magazine runs an article on the rise of extremist right-wing environmentalism in Germany. Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King wrote this landmark missive. It was republished several months later in The Atlantic. King's famous 'Letter from Birmingham. Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, 19-20 July 1848. The Treaty of Kanagawa. On March 3. 1, 1. Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan . Whistler's Survey Etching One of the known works completed by Whistler during his brief federal service, . Passage of this act came 9 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. Evolutionary Psychology. Evolutionary Psychology publishes original empirical research on human psychology and behavior that is guided by an evolutionary perspective. The Moral Crusade Against Foodies. Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony. The. Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared . Flipper. Born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 2. Henry Ossian Flipper. U. S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1. The. 1. 9th Amendment. By 1. 91. 6, almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of. When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1. President. Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1. Japanese. Surrender Document.. That morning, on the deck of the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese envoys. Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signed their names on the. Instrument of Surrender. The time was recorded as 4 minutes past 9 o'clock. The Marshall. Plan. On June 5, 1. 94. Harvard University, Secretary of State George. C. Marshall first called for American assistance in restoring the economic infrastructure. Europe. Western Europe responded favorably, and the Truman administration proposed. The. North Atlantic Treaty. This alliance created a military and political complement to the Marshall Plan for European. Soviet Union. A. Letter from Jackie Robinson. Having captured the attention of the American public in the ballpark, he now delivered. American society would enrich the. Astronaut. John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Mission. With great skill, courage, and grace, Glenn piloted the spacecraft manually as. Mission Control wondered whether the capsule's life- saving. Apollo. 1. 1 Flight Plan. The flight plan describes tasks to be done 1. Immediately. after landing, Armstrong and Aldrin reviewed their lunar contact checklist and reached. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls. Stanton and Anthony Papers Online. On the morning of the 1. Convention. assembled at 1. The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for. Convention, was then read by E. A proposition. was made to have it re- read by paragraph, and after much consideration, some. The propriety of obtaining the signatures. Declaration was discussed in an animated manner: a vote in favor. A vote taken upon the amendment was carried, and papers circulated to obtain signatures. The following resolutions were then read: Whereas, the great precept of nature is conceded to be, . Thursday Morning. The Convention assembled at the hour appointed, James Mott, of Philadelphia, in the Chair. The minutes of the previous day having been read, E. Stanton again read the Declaration of Sentiments, which was freely discussed . Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce; in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given; as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women—the law, in all cases, going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands. After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction, which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known. He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education—all colleges being closed against her. He allows her in Church as well as State, but a subordinate position, claiming Apostolic authority for her exclusion from the ministry, and, with some exceptions, from any public participation in the affairs of the Church. He has created a false public sentiment, by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man. He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God. He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self- respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one- half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation,—in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States. In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and national Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country. Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration. At the appointed hour the meeting convened. The minutes having been read, the resolutions of the day before were read and taken up separately. Some, from their self- evident truth, elicited but little remark; others, after some criticism, much debate, and some slight alterations, were finally passed by a large majority. In the School. of Anti- Slavery, 1. Gordon (New Brunswick, N.
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