What? You dont think other people over the years had not also been arrested for not moving to the back of the bus?
Truth is she was a kind of set up. She was a woman, which automatically made people feel sorry for her, she was a churchgoer, was a respected member of society, and just all around a great symbol of a person deserving respect and not being arrested for simply being tired. The NAACP was waiting for just the right person to be a symbol and Rosa Parks was that person.
BTW, this is something brought up in the movie “Barber Shop”.
I’ll give you old Salmon P Chase as* nobody* knows who he is.
and why pick William McKinley for the $500?
U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States.[3]
I think the issue is that you don’t recognize great accomplishments unless it comes from a man, not that American women haven’t made great accomplishments.
Yes – it’s rabbit season. No – it’s duck season. Yes – its rabbit season.
In other words, there is a very small germ of a joke there that goes back about 7 years. For someone just entering it now I would need to actually diagram it like we did sentences bad in the olden days.
I never even connected Jackson with the Trail of Tears itself, just the horrible way he treated American Indians. This is the sort of stuff I’m used to reading about him.
But now I see that the Trail of Tears is just a natural result of the Indian Removal Act. As you point out, Van Buren was enforcing something already created.
So you’ve actually convinced me that Jackson was responsible, and not just a horrible racist.
That’s a pretty biased cite, and The Creek WAR started with a massacre of about 500 settlers including women and children. Jackson got his name from the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , where about 800 Creek Red Stick warriors were killed. Nothing about killing women and children. In fact during one of his battles with the Seminole: *Close to 40 Red Sticks were killed, and about 100 women and children were captured. * I read nothing there in wiki that indicated Jackson was anything worse tahn a normal Officer taking part in a brutal war, one marked with atrocities on both sides. In fact his conduct seemed above that of other men, altho by no means “with kid gloves”.
Note Jackson wanted the Removal to be voluntary and orderly- and if fact other Removals were pretty much so. What caused the huge number of deaths on trail was incompetence, political malfeasance and a couple of really bad officers- all of which can be laid at the feet of Van Buren . Van Buren was know for massive corruption, and that corruption and incompetence did most of the deadly work.
She gets my vote. She was one of the first investigative journalists, spending 10 days undercover in a mental institution. She was an adventurer: inspired by the Jules Verne tale, she traveled around the world in 72 days as a reporter. She was an industrialist, President of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co., which made milk cans and boilers. She was an inventor and patent holder. She reflects many of the best aspects of the American character and was a master of her awesome.
Finally, she is a trope; generations of plucky and fictionalized women reporters owe much to her example.
Personally, I am obligated to vote for my cousin Elizabeth Cady Stanton (there is an ordinal number and a “removed” count in there), but quite frankly, I am not sure why we should have to choose. Why not issue 20 different twenties? Or two hundred? They do it with coins, they could work out a satisfactory security scheme that would allow bills to have different portraits. Or we could dispense with bills smaller that $100 altogether and just use coins (no ten, just one, five and twenty).
