We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to ourBlack community, then the housing and the land should be made intocooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build andmake decent housing for its people.

On December 7, 1941, the United States was thrust into World War II when Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. The following day, America and Great Britain declared war on Japan. On December 10, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.

It was dying because trade and commerce had declined to dangerously low levels; prices for basic commodities were such as to destroy the value of the assets of national institutions such as banks, savings banks, insurance companies, and others.

“In the late 19th century, there was an increasingly visible presence of gender-non-conforming men who were engaged in sexual relationships with other men in major American cities,” says Chad Heap, a professor of American Studies at George Washington University and the author of Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940.

The Civil War ultimately opened a variety of arenas for Union and Confederate women’s participation.  In the North, the United States Sanitary Commission in particular centralized women’s opportunities to volunteer as nurses, donate supplies, and to raise funds at Sanitary Fairs.

Workers work much more often than they strike, but the capacity to strike is never fullyremoved from the condition of workers. In other words, peoples are not always subjectsconstantly confronting history as some academics would wish, but the capacity uponwhich they act to become subjects is always part of their condition.

How did the experiences of individuals from different races,classes, genders, and sexualities shape their relationship with democracy and the nationalstate throughout modern American history?