Sentences with phrase «against confederate»

SYNOPSIS: As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army.

As the Civil War rages on, a poor Mississippi farmer leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army.

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

This is sad, I bet he feels the same hate for the Nazi flag as most Americans do against the Confederate flag and what it represents...

Not exact matches

Down With the Statues: North Carolina is dismissing charges against several activists who tore down a Confederate statue in Durham last summer, a move that could set an important political precedent.

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Jesus rode a T - Rex into battle as he led the Confederate Army to victory against the Viet Cong in WWII.

Defenders of Confederate memorials, including President Donald Trump, have warned against «changing history» by removing them.

But as even the excellent, aristocratic, Confederate defender of the book [linked by Carl] against democratic [Northern?]

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

Durant joins a growing number of professional athletes who have spoken out against racism and disagreed with President Trump's comments on white supremacists and Confederate statues in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

It would be just about typical of the seemingly superhuman physical attributes of the Arsenal and Chile international if he was somehow to be fit enough to play some part in the Community Shield contest against Chelsea this weekend, despite the Confederates Cup delaying his summer break and then a bout of sickness meaning he did not get back to north London until this week.

The demonstration will be a show of unity against bigotry, hate and racism in the wake of a white nationalist protest protecting a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va..

But the current field pits a state delegate against Corey Stewart — Trump's former state chair who failed in his 2017 gubernatorial run as a defender of Confederate «heritage» — and E.W. Jackson.

Voted against using federal funds for the display of Confederate flags at national cemeteries.

Washington (CNN)-- Senate Democrats pushed back en masse against one of President Barack Obama's federal court nominees on Wednesday, questioning Michael Boggs of Georgia about his past statements and beliefs about abortion, gay marriage and the Confederate flag.

McAuliffe's shift buoyed Virginia Republicans, who have largely been forced to play defense on monuments in this year's race for governor, despite polling showing that a majority of Virginians want Confederate statues to stay put — the position GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie has staked out in his race against Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, D.

The film, directed and co-written by Gary Ross, tells the little - known story of Newton Knight, a soldier who deserted the Confederate army and then led an insurrection against it.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

A loner with a talent for guns in the Old West has a scheme to get a coffin full of gold by pitting warring factions of Confederate soldiers against Mexican rebels.

Telling the true story of Newton Knight (played by Matthew McConaughey), Free State of Jones follows the Southern farmer as he deserts the Confederate army in 1863 to raise a guerilla force of his own to defend Jones County, Mississippi and its adjacent townships against the greedy Confederate forces taking their food and supplies to support the war effort.

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

Among them: an administrator called meetings to decide what to do about students wearing Confederate flag apparel; a principal banned the student newspaper from covering a controversial issue, only relenting when the local media reported the story; and a student Bible group, prohibited from distributing fliers on campus unless the word prayer and any Biblical quotations were eliminated from the flier, filed suit against a principal.

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Recent protests against white supremacy and Confederate monuments in the American south have made it clear that the complexities of our history continue to influence and confound contemporary perspectives on race, rights and equality.

The title references a Confederate general's failed charge against Union troops in 1863.

The title of the presentation references a Confederate general's failed charge against Union troops in 1863.

Constituted, as that body is, of the delegates of confederated States, some such provision was necessary to guard against their mutual jealousy, since every proceeding against a representative would indirectly affect the honour or interests of the state which sent him.

During the war against the South many confederate rebels were hung by the military for treason, but whether they were citizens entitled to the protection of the Constitution is questionable, since they had succeeded from the Union.