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Juneteenth has many customs and symbols, including the colors that appear at every celebration. Here's the meaning of the flags' colors of red, blue, black and green.
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Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
SUMMARY Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms. Armed with a pedigree that connected her to some of the wealthiest families of Virginia, she threw herself into such “unfeminine” pursuits as education reform and civil rights. She helped to found the Richmond Education Association, was the first woman to serve on the city’s school board, was a member of the University of Virginia‘s board of visitors, and was the first woman to serve on the College of William and Mary‘s board of visitors. Munford also served on the board of the National Urban League, was a founding member of the Virginia Inter-Racial League, and became a trustee at the historically black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.