Sentences with phrase «decades after the civil war»

World War II is directly confronted in Mudbound, which exposes how America fostered its own version of racial cleansing with its treatment of its black citizens for decades after the Civil War ended.

Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona's famous lawmen.

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In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

South Sudan seceded from the predominantly Sunni Muslim north in 2011 after decades of civil war.

Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

At that time, however, there had been six decades of relative stagnation in race relations since the national compromise in the 1870s after the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

The discovery is part of a trend among local and foreign scientists to focus again on Afghanistan after decades of civil war and invasions there, says Stephen Peters, lead researcher on a U.S. Geological Survey effort to assess the mineral resources in the central Asian country.

After the events of Captain America: Civil War, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) took his old friend Bucky Barnes to Wakanda, to see if T'challa (Chadwick Boseman) and his high - tech team could erase all of the HYDRA brainwashing that was done to him decades ago, which was used against him in Captain America: Civil War.

After close to a decade of watching these heroes come into their own, flying around Earth and transporting themselves to different universes, Civil War is the first truly human movie about a team of superhuman individuals.

The latest Tarantino film takes place a decade or so after the Civil War, and centers around a bounty hunter (Russell) and his fugitive (Leigh) who get holed up with six other strangers after a blizzard cuts them off from the town of Red Rock.

It's the most influential American action movie of the decade, and if you've seen John Wick, you've seen its influence on everything that has come after, up to and including Marvel movies (the co-directors of the first JW directed the second - unit action photography for Captain America: Civil War).

Images from as early as the Civil War — really just three decades after the invention of photography — to the war in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in MoraWar — really just three decades after the invention of photography — to the war in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Morawar in Iraq make up a stunning tribute to «The American Soldier» at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Moraga.

Via email, I asked her about the genesis of the exhibition: «As a child, I had wondrous and strange experiences at Coney Island... My family and I still go there and we believe in its never - ending potential for magic... [This is the] first exhibition to look at the site's enduring status as a muse for artists, from its rise in popularity as a seaside resort in the Civil War era through the closing of its space - age amusement park, Astroland, after decades of urban decline.»

Born circa 1900 in Clarksville, Texas — a city still painfully segregated after the Civil War's Reconstruction Era decade...

So it is with Cambodia's old civil war, which resulted in one of modern history's most horrific genocides, and left the country littered with land mines that are still killing and maiming today, even decades after the war ended.

This plaudit puts me in some fine company here at The Times, with past winners including Linda Greenhouse, who recently retired after decades covering the Supreme Court, my friend John Kifner, an amazingly unflappable war reporter, and John Herbers, who covered the civil rights movement in depth, among many other things.