Sentences with phrase «long after the civil war»

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

It's not that long after the Civil War and back then it was unheard of that a black man would be given such a title.

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Just after the Civil War, bright young American literati exposed to the new surge of scholarship at continental universities came home only to be dismayed by the lethargy and intellectual squalor of their no - longer almae matres.

And let's face it as long as the Syrian civil war exist, they will continue to exist, and probably even after that, since the civil wars in Libya and Sudan also are going on in the region, they have high chances of continuing their organisation there as they feed on the misery of the people for their staff.

In an astute and partly sympathetic article the former minister, John Denham, argues perceptively that Corbyn has not made up his mind whether to unify a party that is - with some exceptions on both sides - still capable of unity, or to go for a divisive strategy in which his long held views prevail after all out civil war.

Ms Sirleaf took office in 2006, after her predecessor, Charles Taylor, was forced out of office by rebels in 2003, ending a long civil war.

Salvadorean women refugees suffering psychological trauma after a long civil war, on the other hand, often experience something called calorias,...

After being accidentally but near - fatally injured by the Vision in Captain America: Civil War, War Machine and the android have buried the hatchet, according to Cheadle, and Rhodey has long gotten used to the high - tech leg braces his friend Tony Stark built for him.

After a long history of civil war and corruption, many Liberians didn't trust their government's attempts to control Ebola.

After directing this summer's Captain America: Civil War, the brothers will produce an adaptation of Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic The Warriors into an hour - long drama for Hulu.

After Emancipation and the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution further guaranteed freedom, protection and civil rights to all African Americans — but not for Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution further guaranteed freedom, protection and civil rights to all African Americans — but not for civil rights to all African Americans — but not for long.

Well, they created a video that is one and a half minutes long called the «Most Shocking Second a Day» and it was launched right after the third anniversary of the Civil War in Syria.

Angola is an impoverished country that depends on its oil industry to pay for reconstruction after a long civil war.

The precedent being cited is the so - called Long Parliament that, according to Wikipedia, took place in England in the 1600s after the English Civil War.

This marks the end of another phase of what could be known as the long, on - going «Bitcoin Civil War»; SegWit2X is another failed attempt to split Bitcoin after Bitcoin XT, Classic and Unlimited.