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Black Philadelphians lived MLK s fight to end housing discrimination

WHYY By Residents are pictured in the courtyard of Richard Allen Homes. Some debris is littered about the ground. (Courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center/Temple University Libraries) Walter Palmer was living in a small two-story house in a section of West Philadelphia known as the Black Bottom in the late 1960s when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously uncovered blatant housing discrimination in Chicago. As King led marches through that city in protest of what he called the “de-facto segregation of the North,” Palmer played percussion in a jazz club down the block from his house and watched as the civil rights movement took hold in his neighborhood, an African American community that had thrived there since the 1800s despite the racism that coursed through the city, enforcing segregation and limiting mobility.

The Time for Prayer: The Third Great Awakening

By 1820 it seemed that the Second Awakening was waning; yet within a few years it had sprung to life under the ministry of Charles Finney. His enormous success inspired a large number of “professional evangelists” to come to the fore from the ranks of every major denomination. By 1840 the concept of large campaigns led by preachers who were not pastors of specific churches was generally accepted. From 1840 until the 1870s numerous preachers entered the ranks of traveling evangelists. Despite all this, the religious life of America was in decline from 1840 to 1857. Many causes were responsible. Agitation over the issue of slavery in both the North and South had reached fever pitch, and hatreds boiled. Great numbers were disillusioned over spiritual things because of the extremes of the Millerites, a radical group that had widely proclaimed that Christ would return to earth between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844. When this did not happen, William Miller, the leader, reset the dat

Times Square New Year s Eve ball drop: A brief history

design Published 31st December 2020 Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN On the last day of each year, it has become a ritual for large crowds to gather in the brightly lit chaos of New York s Times Square to ring in new beginnings. At 11:59 p.m. a dazzling ball descends down a pole, while attendees and millions of people tuning in from home count down from 60. At the stroke of midnight, the crowd erupts into a cacophony of sound, often pulling their loved one in for a ceremonial kiss. New Year s Eve has its own set of rituals: the ball drop, resolutions and sealing the new year with a kiss. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

Traditions of New Year celebrations and how they began

Traditions of New Year celebrations and how they began
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