After the WWII had ended, many thought that a period of prosperity would finally arrive. However, the struggle for power and influence in Asia between the Soviet Union and the Western World led to another conflict. On June 26 1950, The North Korean Communist Party (DPRK) launched a surprise attack and crossed the 38th parallel, the border between North and South Korea. (Andrei Lankov From Stalin...
Here comes the bride, all dressed in white. In mid-July 1950, many young couples were coming closer and closer to hearing the bridal march. New York jewellers were astounded by the sudden demand for engagement and wedding rings. According to W. Waters Schwab, the president of J.R. Wood & Sons, Inc., the increase was due to the Korean crisis. It was mere weeks before this escalation of ring...
“I decline to answer on the grounds that this might tend to incriminate me,”[1] would be repeated nearly twenty-three times by Ethel Rosenberg on that uncomfortable, eighty-eight-degree day in the Southern District Federal Court in New York on August 11, 1950. She was put on the stand by the prosecution because she and her husband, Julius, were charged with espionage on behalf of the Soviet...
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Less than a year prior to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, the United States Congress issued His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama the congressional gold medal. Shortly before congress's decoration of the Tibetan leader-in-exile, Chinese authorities tightened security in the Tibet Autonomous Region and threatened action against Tibetans celebrating the region's Great...
In 1951, Oliver Brown, along with twelve other families from other states, decided to forever shake the segregated and racist south by filling a lawsuit challenging public school segregation. Brown’s daughter Olivia, a third grader, was forced to attend an African American school miles away from her house, while an all-white school was only seven blocks away. She walked six blocks every morning...
The 1950-51 academic year was one of turmoil at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. The previously peaceful liberal arts school was rocked by a scandal concerning the young President Paul Wagner. This incident, which came to be known as the Wagner Affair, led to one of very few cases of student activism in the 1950s. It was brought about by Paul Wagner’s increasing disregard for the democratic...
Despite the overwhelming trend of female-dominated student bodies during and immediately following World War II, the actuality of collegiate representation and consideration for female students and faculty in the United States was disparagingly low. Unfortunately, Rollins College, an educational institution founded in 1885 by Lucy Cross and the Congregational Church, was no different from the majority...
Throughout the years, Rollins College has created its own history. Since its founding in 1885, much has taken place. During the 1950s, the Wagner Affair became part of this history. Paul Wagner was the president of Rollins from 1949 to 1951. Wagner was the ninth president at Rollins. He was the nation’s youngest college president, and took office at the age of 32. Even though his time...
Over one thousand women gathered in Worchester, Massachusetts, for a Women's Rights Convention in October 1851. "Wit, humor, truth, poetry, absurdity, and misdemeanor madness, were all component parts of the proceedings and speeches," wrote a journalist for the Daily Alabama Journal. Among the speakers were E. Oakes Smith, Abby Kelly Foster, and Lucretia Mott. The journalist observed...
One morning in 1951, students at Augustana College in Rock Island were met with an unusual site: a set of stairs off 7th avenue that led up to the iconic academic building Old Main had a sign stretching across the top of it, reading “Crazy Connie’s Used Cars.” Accompanying the sign on the grassy lawn were several cars, all with for-sale signs. At least twelve male students at Augustana took...