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175 matches to Niagara Movement
Du Bois, William. 1868-1963. US writer. Founded Niagara movement, NAACP 1909.
NAACP. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 1909-. For US black civil rights. Niagara Movement. Du Bois.
Niagara Movement. 1905-10. US black civil rights movement. NAACP.
Blondin, Charles. 1824-97. French tightrope walker over Niagara, 1859.
Caroline Affair. 1837. Canadians destroy US vessel at Niagara for supplying rebels. Mackenzie.
Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls. Discovered 1678 by French priest Louis Hennepin.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Anglo-Catholicism. High Church movement in Church of England. Stresses link with Roman Catholic church. Oxford Movement.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.
Aragon, Louis. 1897-1982. French Romantic poet + Communist.
Arminianism. 17C-. Christian movement. Free-will is compatible with God’s sovereignty.
Bakunin, Mikhail. 1814-76. Russian anarchist revolutionary. International movement. Advocated assassination. Dieu et l’état 1871.
Black Hundreds. 1905-9. Russian movement. Opposed revolution. Persecuted Jews-50,000 dead.
Black Muslims. 20C US movement to apply Islam to Black life. Malcolm X.
Black Nationalism. 1960-73. US political movement for economic power.
Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.
Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.
Cage, John. 1912-92. Father of US avant-garde musical movement. Experiments with randomness and new sounds.
Carbonari. 1806-31. Naples. Secret revolutionary society. Young Italy Movement.
Carson, Edward. 1854-1935. Irish. Formed Ulster Volunteers to resist Home Rule.
Cassini, Giovanni. 1625-1712. Italian astronomer. Movement of moon.
Cavaliere, Emilio del. c1550-1602. Added arias and choral movements to cantatas. Early dramatic music.