Sentences with phrase «where confederate»

Some tours offer the opportunity to crawl into caves where Confederate soldiers and moonshiners used to hide.

Notably, unlike the UK which suspended elections during WWII, the US has never failed to hold an election every two years for federal office (although Union govt elections were suspended in the Confederate states where Confederate election were held instead, until the states were readmitted to the union).

Washington Supreme Court justices will be in northeastern Washington Tuesday to hear three cases in Nespelem, where the Confederated Tribes of the Colville are headquartered.

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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.

R.E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee once served as senior warden will no longer honour the Confederate general in its name, following the vestry voting 7 - 5 to change the church's name to its previous name, Grace Episcopal Church.

In light of the Charleston shooting, God has granted grace on Americans by allowing them to see where they had been «blind,» said Obama, alluding to the recent call by many of South Carolina's politicians to take down the Confederate flag.

Is the idea that people in Alabama and Mississippi, where many still fly the confederate flag, don't like someone that thinks different than them, really a story?

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.

Sometimes an image tells the story, and in this case, the story is that Voter ID laws are concentrated in formerly Confederate states, places where poll taxes and similar laws once kept black voters out of the political process.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

And just recently we saw [Howard] in April appear at a rally where there were White Supremacists in attendance, Confederate flags flying and, in the wake of that, he has not once denounced the racist and hateful rhetoric that was present at that rally.»

The march, sponsored by Justice League NYC, has garnered national attention as participants have walked across major highways, through rural towns where porches are adorned with confederate flags, and in cities like Baltimore where tensions between

Law plays a wounded Confederate soldier who straggles back to North Carolina, where his wife (Kidman) and a spunky hobo (Zellweger) struggle to keep the farm going.

John Carter (PG - 13 for violence and intense action sequences) Screen adaptation of «A Princess of Mars,» Edgar Rice Burroughs» sci - fi novel about a Civil War Confederate veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who is magically transported to Mars where he rescues a desperate damsel in distress (Lynn Collins) while on the run from a horde of 12 - foot tall green creatures.

The ghosts of the Civil War long hovered over the Derby where in the early years former slave owners and Confederates not only dominated the crowd but the politics of Louisville, itself.

This piece, a cut - out nearly 60 feet wide, is based on the Confederate Memorial Carving on the face of Stone Mountain, where the KKK still regularly holds rallies and has been met with resistance in recent years.

On Thursday, officials in Lexington, Va., the Virginia city where Lee and Jackson are buried, voted to prohibit the flying of the Confederate flag on city - owned poles.

Once the female completed the task, the researcher brought her to the confederate's room where they were instructed to discuss their impressions of the video.

The researcher had over 100 female undergraduate participants arrive at the study where an attractive male confederate who was, unbeknownst to the female participants, a part of the study, waited.