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17. Mai 2024 · Black Panther Party, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Created to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality, the Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group.
Vor 2 Tagen · All of the above terminology was created by William Joseph Simmons, as part of his 1915 revival of the Klan. The Reconstruction-era Klan used different titles; the only titles to carry over were " Wizard " for the overall leader of the Klan and "Night Hawk" for the official in charge of security.
Vor 2 Tagen · Meanwhile, the Democratic Party fragmented. A new Progressive Party (the name had been used earlier by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert M. La Follette in 1924) was created afresh in 1948, with the nomination of Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President of the United States, and Secretary of Commerce under ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Henry Ford Portrait by Fred Hartsook, c. 1919 Born (1863-07-30) July 30, 1863 Springwells Township, Michigan, U.S. Died April 7, 1947 (1947-04-07) (aged 83) Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. Resting place Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan Occupations Engineer industrialist publisher philanthropist Years active 1891–1945 Known for Founding and leading the Ford Motor Company Pioneering a system that ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Green parties first emerged in the United States in 1984 with the creation by a small group of environmentalists of a state party in Maine.The party’s founding meeting was initiated by two local activists, Alan Philbrook and John Rensenbrink, who had previously campaigned against Maine’s sole nuclear power plant.
Vor 6 Tagen · The Progressive Party stood for strong regulation of interstate corporations through a federal commission, namely creating a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission for them. This was, interestingly, a conservative substitute from Theodore Roosevelt, who had removed a strong provision for “trust busting”, which critics attributed to the influence of key financial backer George Walbridge ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, former national political party in Canada, historically (with the Liberal Party of Canada) one of Canada’s two major parties. In the 1990s, however, its support plummeted, and in 2003 it merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada. (A number of provincial parties ...
