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......King organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gave him...the 1965 Voting Rights Act.King's leadership in the civil-rights movement was challenged...King, carried on various aspects of his work until her death in 2006. She also wrote......

......organized the same year to work through the state legislatures...seek a federal amendment or to work for state amendments—kept...Woman's party, under the leadership of Alice Paul, Lucy Burns...movement emerged under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst and her......

......ceased to function. Attempts were made to work through the growing farmer-labor movement...These two groups alternated in party leadership until 1929, when the Comintern ordered...democratic." The party, under the leadership of Earl Browder, now went all out in......

......as a moderate Democrat, he headed the centrist Democratic Leadership Council from 1990 to 1991. In 1992, Clinton won the...term revolutionized the system, requiring that recipients work, while providing them with various subsidies to aid in the......

......Israel." The Bible is no longer considered a homogeneous work; the many traditions represented in it demonstrate...monotheism), the expectation of national restoration under the leadership of a descendant of the Davidic house, the Messiah. The Postexilic......

......command of the Army of Northern Virginia (June 1, 1862). His leadership of that army through the next three years has placed him among...applied, Lee nevertheless urged the people of the South to work for the restoration of peace and harmony in a united country......

......movement to Roman Catholicism was opposed by Pusey, under whose leadership the majority remained loyal to the Church of England. Under...first in 1845. They became centers of charitable and social work of importance. Communities for men were fewer and expanded......

......government granted her a full release, and she turned her powers of leadership from the suffragist movement to the war effort. After the war she moved to Canada and her work for women's rights virtually ceased. Upon her return to England in......

......and to incorporate many of the ancient principles into their work.At the same time artists were intensely preoccupied with problems...their mark on N Italian painting. In the early 16th cent. the leadership in Italian art shifted from Florence to Rome. The works of......

......Congressional elections of 1862. But despite mutterings against his leadership, Lincoln, renominated on the Union (Republican) ticket in...rigidly kept. However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industri...