Sentences with phrase «for confederate»

It was colonized in the early 19th century and played an important role during the American Civil War as a headquarters and supply point for the Confederate army.

Taxpayers in Fairfax County lacked standing to challenge the school board's decision to rename a school named for a Confederate general.

It was colonized in the early 19th century and played an important role during the American Civil War as a headquarters and supply point for the Confederate army.

After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides.

The Life & Times of Judah Benjamin All Other Nights incorporates a number of historical characters, but perhaps the most integral to the tale is Judah Benjamin, the Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America.

It is thought that Evans was named for Confederate General Clement A. Evans.

According to a flier handed out by anti-mascot activists at a Thursday, November 2 meeting of the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, the predominantly white students in the class of 1967 who chose to be represented by Johnny Rebel — a term for a Confederate soldier, and the stage name of a prominent white supremacist musician — did so to send «a clear message that people of color were not welcome at Savanna High School or in Anaheim.»

Also on Monday night, the Oklahoma City School Board voted to change the name of three elementary schools that had been named for Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee, NewsOK.com reports.

A treasure hunter and his sidekick join forces with a doctor to search for a Confederate ship in Africa.

Meanwhile, also on Tuesday, Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Brooklyn Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez held a rally with community leaders urging the Department of the Army to rename two streets — General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive — at Fort Hamilton that are currently named for confederate generals.

Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, and other Republican lawmakers in the state are calling for the confederate flag to be removed from the state capitol.

Cuomo, who has called for the re-naming of streets that are part of an Army base in New York City named for Confederate generals, said Columbus has a different meaning for Italian - Americans.

@user4012 - Yes Lincoln did it for any confederate soldier that was willing to take an oath of alliegance after the civil war.

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP)-- Two members of Congress from New York are pressing Army officials to rename the U.S. Military Academy barracks named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Walking down the narrow Lee Highway, a national auto trail originally named for Confederate general Robert E. Lee in 1919, you can anticipate the glances, stares, and quips that are coming.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.

The murders have reignited calls for the Confederate flag - a symbol of slavery and white supremacy - to be taken down from public institutions.

In response to the shooting, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the Confederate flag that stands on the grounds of the state capitol to be taken down.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

«It started off well, then went real bad at the end — for the Confederates.»

Not exact matches

Walmart said Monday it will no longer sell the Confederate flag or items emblazoned with its likeness in stores or online, a move that came in the hours after South Carolina's governor called for the flag to come down on Statehouse grounds.

Ben Engebreth, a programmer at CamelCamelCamel, said the company doesn't have nearly as much data on Confederate flags as it does for other, more commonly tracked Amazon products, like televisions, computers and household appliances.

Named for two significant figures in American history — President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — Washington and Lee is steeped in traditions, including the school's honor code, which allows students such freedoms as scheduling their own exams and taking them without supervision.

Today it is home to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind and the nation's first Confederate Memorial in Indian Mound Cemetery.

And he paid tribute to a nurse named Elmina Spencer who walked into the midst of battle to care for wounded soldiers and then opened a hospital where she attended to both Union and Confederate soldiers.

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«We can not in good conscience justify the presence of the Confederate flag in this house of prayer for all people, nor can we honor the systematic oppression of African - Americans for which these two men fought and died.»

At the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis wrote to Pope Pius IX, thanking him for his kind sentiments in calling for a resolution to the Civil War.

«It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.»

The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Tuesday to fine the city of Memphis $ 250,000 for removing Confederate monuments.

This week, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to fine the city of Memphis $ 250,000 for removing Confederate monuments.

Fifth, Piper highlights the controversy over Confederate memorials which «too many of us feel like they belong in a museum for education instead of on a pedestal for celebration.»

An American church named after a Confederate general has decided to change its name after debating the issue for two years.

On behalf of the Northern states that wronged you and your confederates in the war of Northern Aggression back in the 1860's, I'd like to sincerely apologize for trying to force you all to stay in the Union.

He instead asked the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, for a truce to collect the wounded and dead.

For starters, I fly neither the American flag nor the Confederate off the back of a pick - up truck.

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...

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

Greene was escorted from the game for waving a Confederate flag while standing in front of «several African American people» during the national anthem, but argued that he was just invoking the First Amendment and should have been allowed to stay.

In 1862 America, a healthy adult male slave went for around $ 5,000 (or $ 200 in confederate dollars).

A few cynics chided Lincoln for proclaiming free only the slaves in Confederate - controlled states, where he did not possess effective power to make any slave free, but not proclaiming slavery abolished in border states that were under Union control.

Yes, this is about DACA and the Dreamers, taking down Confederate idolatry, combating 45 and the goons wearing his red hats, but it's also about a movement bubbling for a year to make a typically conservative sports fanbase care about progressive issues.

According to Baseball - Reference's Bullpen, Bridges was indeed named for both the third President of the United States and the first president of the Confederate States of America.

A big trawler that's made the trek from a harbor further south flies a confederate flag, even though 72,945 Mainers fought for the Union, and the confederacy attacked Portland Harbor.

«I'm mad at Earnhardt and Johnson for calling for taking down the Confederate flag,» he says.

Even though the Arsenal and Chile striker Alexis Sanchez finally jetted in to London this week after a summer break extended by the Confederates Cup and then delayed by «illness» to the wantaway player, Arsenal fans were still not really sure if the 28 - year old would be playing for the Gunners this season or not, until now that is.

There is a strong possibility that the Arsenal and Chile international star Alexis Sanchez could finally be set for a summer off, which the striker has not been able to do for years with Copa America tournaments, a World Cup and a Confederates Cup keeping him busy on international duty.

This happened YESTERDAY with a kid who shot to stardom on Twitter Sunday night because of a video of him crying over being bullied, and by mid-day Monday members of his immediate family were discovered to be Confederate flag - waving yahoos who are now alleged to have popularized his video for profit.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) created joint training opportunities across TELI (Tribal Early Learning Initiative) partners around the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning

Civil War Days: Union and Confederate re-enactment forces will battle for supremacy Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville.