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Flower of Manhood. In Los Angeles, addressing a florists' convention, Benton E. Krischer suggested that as a "revolt against monotony" men should wear flowers in their beards, illustrated his point by sporting a delphinium...
...answering the question: "The lasting significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 lies in its provision for a) an Indian policy, b) universal manhood suffrage, c) the exclusion of the British from the Northwest territory, d) the settlement of the Northwest territory, and e) a method for admitting new states into the Union," a student must know more than the bare provisions of the ordinance...
...must take into account that the ordinance's Indian policy never became permanent, that universal manhood suffrage came much later than 1787, that the British question was settled before the ordinance, and that the settlement of the Northwest territory was of much less "lasting significance" than the method of admitting states into the Union...
...Full Manhood Rights...
...clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration of Independence. In 1905 he founded the Niagara Movement and in the following year at Harpers Ferry drafted resolutions which proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America...