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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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Pope Alexander VI issued the Bull of Demarcation in settlement. With aloof equanimity, His Holiness drew a meridian line from north to south on a chart of the great ocean, one hundred leagues west of the Azores. He assigned all lands west
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“One Saturday six weeks later we spent the afternoon in my bedroom, naked in the bright sunlight, inspecting each other curiously, without desire, as though we were museum curators cataloging idiosyncrasies: the raised mole here, a pale depression of stretch marks there.”
― Land of Big Numbers
― Land of Big Numbers
“Two days after the president spoke, the Senate majority leader, Democrat Mike Mansfield, and the minority leader, Republican Everett Dirksen, together introduced a bill to guarantee voting rights to African Americans. A similar bill was soon introduced in the House of Representatives. Over ferocious opposition by Southern congressmen, the bill passed in both houses. On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.”
― On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
― On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
“in a compromise that gave the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, the White House. In return for southern Democratic support of their presidential candidate, Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops who had been protecting African Americans in the defeated Confederacy.”
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“The zone plan drafted by Whitten and published by the Atlanta City Planning Commission in 1922 explained that “race zoning is essential in the interest of the public peace, order and security and will promote the welfare and prosperity of both the white and colored race.”
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“Not only were these neighborhoods zoned to permit industry, even polluting industry, but the plan commission permitted taverns, liquor stores, nightclubs, and houses of prostitution to open in African American neighborhoods but prohibited these as zoning violations in neighborhoods where whites lived.”
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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