Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got it. A Negro attorney agreed to represent them. Their church, Negro real-estate dealers and the American Civil Liberties Union contributed money. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People incorporated their case into a pool of similar cases from all over the nation. With mingled hope, doubt and embarrassment, the Shelleys suddenly found themselves one of the spearheads of a great legal battle...
Last week Chief Justice Vinson delivered the opinion of the court. Its essence: restrictive real-estate covenants are lawful-as private agreements-but under the terms of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 they cannot be enforced by either state or federal courts. Without doubt, this was a momentous decision in U.S. judicial history. It would set off no violent upheaval in the pattern of city life. But it removed one of the weapons by which segregation is enforced, and would give the Negro an increasingly better chance to make a decent life for himself...
...Benito Juárez was president, and Mexico had just emerged from years of exhausting civil war. But there were die-hards among the defeated, and these had persuaded the ambitious emperor of the French that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a little matter of unpaid Mexican debts in which Frenchmen were interested. Aware that the U.S., torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege...
...never gave up. After the U.S. Civil War ended and the French had marched out of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian was dethroned and shot. Thereafter, Mexico, free and independent, celebrated the Cinco de Mayo as its national holiday...
John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and after a school that had once flourished there. Last week Milton gave a dignified party to celebrate its "150th" anniversary...