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The Eisenhower Administration And Allied Relations During The Suez Canal Crisis Of 1956, Gregory D. Colburn

History Theses & Dissertations

The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 illustrated a potentially harmful dichotomy in Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy goals. Eisenhower relied on the support of America's major allies, the British and the French to resist Communist influence throughout the world. In addition, Eisenhower felt it necessary to "win over" the developing nations of the world by supporting their anti-colonialist struggles and trying to bring the rising tide of nationalism into line with American policy. These two goals came into conflict during the Suez Crisis. By using various governmental sources as well as the memoirs of key figures in the governments of …

The Marine Corps In Vietnam: An Examination Of Cohesion And Effectiveness At Khe Sanh, Gregory L. Davenport

History Theses & Dissertations

The Marine defense of the Khe Sanh Combat Base in 1968 provides an isolated model to study combat cohesion and effectiveness. Focusing on Companies K and L of the 3d Battalion, 26th Regiment, reveals that cohesion and effectiveness were composed of four interlocking components: universal, cultural, institutional, and situational. Universal sources include the primary group, ideology, esprit de corps, small unit leadership, and social systems. Culturally, Marine recruitment images and pop-culture literature and cinema, which highlighted the Corps and combat as epitomizing manhood, influenced the Khe Sanh marines. Institutionally, the Corps used Marine history and gender manipulation during boot …

Wedding Bands And Marriage Bans: A History Of Oregon's Racial Intermarriage Statutes And The Impact On Indian Interracial Nuptials, Matthew Aeldun Charles Smith

Dissertations and Theses

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the first contacts between white and Indian cultures in Oregon quickly secured marriages between the European and American traders and trappers and indigenous women. These unions sustained economic alliances and nurtured cultural links.

But the opening of the Oregon Trail brought an influx of white men and women from America's Middle West who stored more than supplies in their wagons. They transported racial beliefs which subjugated all non-whites to an inferior status. Laws were passed by this generation of pioneers in each governmental period -- provisional, territorial and statehood -- which codified a wide …

Events; 1997-06-30; Church Conference Agenda, Bethel A.M.E. Church

Bethel A.M.E. Church

No abstract provided.

Weerstra, Theresa Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Ann Paeth

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 021, Number 37, June 30, 1997, Grand Valley State University

1996-1997, Volume 21

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Elder Herman S. Dickerson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Deacon Roosevelt Butler

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Delia Jackson

African American Funeral Programs

Interment at Little Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery

Women's Sports, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Twenty-five years ago Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 mandated that women not be discriminated against in any educational institution receiving federal funds. Although Title IX does not mention sport specifically it is clear that sport is one of those activities covered. When you see the hype being generated by the arrival of the WNBA, you might think that Title IX has been a major success. It has not.

Kenneth Lee Houp Interview, Kenneth Lee Houp, Yvonne Baldwin

Vietnam War Oral History Collection

Transcript of an oral history interview with Kenneth Lee Houp by Yvonne Baldwin on his experiences during the Vietnam War on June 26, 1997.

Mouw, Emily Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Ann Paeth

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

Heffron, Evelyn Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", June Reimink

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

Jeffrey Segal Intarview, Jeffrey Segal, John Ernst

Vietnam War Oral History Collection

Transcript of an oral history interview with Jeffrey Segal by John Ernst on his experiences during the Vietnam War on June 23, 1997.

Graham, Linda Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Ann Paeth

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

Scholten, Eugene Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Ann Paeth

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

Grant M. Furnas Interview, Grant M. Furnas, John Ernst

Vietnam War Oral History Collection

Transcript of an oral history interview with Grant M. Furnas by John Ernst on his experiences during the Vietnam War on June 21, 1997.

From The Chair… Ben Walker, Ben Walker

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Home Sweet Home: Home Of General Joseph Wheeler, Carolyn Brandon Elliott

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Highlights In The History Of Triana, Charles Dillard Lyle

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Reuben Stone Of Bloucher's Ford, Alabama, Dorothy Scott Johnson

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Church And Negro Progress, George E. Haynes

Trotter Review

The marked progress of the Negro in America in which the church has been a factor has been of three general types. The first is intra-group advancement in such phases of life as education and wealth. The second is inter-group adjustments between the Negro population and the white population in such matters as economic relationships, citizenship rights and privileges, interracial contacts and fellowship. There is a third type of progress which touches both the internal and external life of the Negro group such as the cultural contributions of Negroes which have gradually been incorporated into our common life. There are, …

Building On A Radical Foundation: The Work Of Theologian Howard Thurman Continues, Stephanie Athey

Trotter Review

Howard Thurman (1900-1981), whose life spanned most of this century, was a prodigious intellect and a pioneering theologian; his persistent effort, especially over the period of 1930s-1960s, to grapple with racism and classism within American Christianity paved the way for intellectual, political and religious leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Through his contact with Mahatma Gandhi, Thurman became convinced that African Americans might bring the "unadulterated message of non-violence to all people everywhere." Determined to find a moral and practical method to unite the concerns of the human spirit and the immediate material and social …

The Substance Of Things Hoped For: A Memoir Of African-American Faith By Samuel Dewitt Proctor: A Review Essay, Donald Cunnigen

Trotter Review

The following article is a review of The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith by Samuel DeWitt Proctor, written by Donald Cunnigen.

Religious Institutions And Black Political Activism, Frederick C. Harris

Trotter Review

During the modern Civil Rights Movement religious institutions provided critical organizational resources for protest mobilization. As Aldon Morris' extensive study of the southern Civil Rights Movement noted, the Black Church served as the "organizational hub of Black life," providing the resources that fostered—along with other indigenous groups and institutions—collective protest against a system of white domination in the South.

The Sacred As The Basis For Human Creativity And Agency In The Black Church, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Trotter Review

Religion is, I believe, the most important site for human creativity, innovation, and agency. In the world of the sacred in any social context, one is able to find the widest variety of human constructions of meaning. Indeed, the true understanding of human diversity may be found in the study of religion and the processes through which people sustain and renew their religious organizations and their religious world views. It is important, I think, to apply these new insights to the study of the African-American religious experience. The Black church, or the collective experience of African-American Christians in the United …

From The Editor… Elise Stephens, Elise Stephens

The Historic Huntsville Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Black Church Politics And The Million Man March, William E. Nelson Jr.

Trotter Review

October 16, 1995 will be recorded as one of the most important days in the political history of African Americans in the United States. This day witnessed the largest mass political demonstration in the history of this nation—the assemblage of more than 1.2 million African-American men in Washington, D.C. under the banner of the Million Man March. Both the size and the overt political objectives of the march set it firmly apart from the pallid, feeble demonstrations in Washington led by the NAACP in the 1980s; in its size and character, the march echoed the focus on power and system …

Burning Hate: The Torching Of Black Churches, Salim Muwakkil

Trotter Review

Nearly 100 predominantly Black churches have been torched since 1990, their congregations forced to watch in horror as the very centers of their communities were consumed by the flames of racial hatred. Americans of all races have recoiled in shock—and often with genuine shame—as the attacks have escalated in past months. But despite President Clinton's call for interracial solidarity and the belated appeals of white evangelical Christian leaders for racial reconciliation, many African Americans are left wondering whether white America grasps the meaning and significance of this reign of terror.

The Black Church: The 'Cocoon' For The Black 'Butterfly' And The African-American Music Idiom, Hubert Walters

Trotter Review

An interesting phenomenon takes place in the world of nature when the larvae of the Monarch butterfly goes through the period of metamorphosis in the protective cover of the cocoon, and emerges as one of the most beautiful butterflies in North America. This phenomenon seems to be an appropriate metaphor to use in our discussion of the African-American Music Idiom. This idiom was developed and nurtured in the "cocoon" of the Black Church, while undergoing the "metamorphosis" of slavery, second-class citizenship, and segregation and emerge as the beautiful Black musical, "Butterfly," which stands at the very foundation of the only …