Bits of History

Volume 11…………………………2008

Otis Redding (1941-1967) Issue 19

Brown v Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 (1954) Issue 20

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919-1989) Issue 21

Volume 10…………………………2007

Issue 1 James A Baker, III

Issue 2 Ernest J. Gaines

Issue 3 Otis Blackwell (1932-2002)

Issue 4 King George III (1738-1820)

Issue 5 The Red Ball Express

Issue 6 The Man in Mississippi

Issue 7 Jean Baptiste-Point Du Sable (1750-1818)

Issue 8 Nat Dee

Issue 9 Percy Ellis Sutton

Issue 10 Project for the New American Century

Issue 11 Financial Panic of 1907

Issue 12 Roadmap for Middle East Peace (2003-2006)

Issue 13 Iraq Constitution (2003-2006)

Issue 14 MARTA (1960-2007)

Issue 16 United States Electoral College

Issue 17 Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983)

Issue 18 Poor People’s Campaign (1968)

Issue 19 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Issue 20 Charles Mingus: Beneath the Underdog

Issue 22 Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Issue 23 Clarence Thomas: A Black Conservative

Issue 24 Thurbert E. Baker

Issue 25 Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946)

Issue 26 Jandamarra (c. 1873-1897)

Issue 27 Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898)

Issue 28 Alan Greenspan

Issue 29 Nigger (1800-2007)

Issue 30 Mollie Orshansky (1915-2006)

Issue 31 Whitney Moore Young, Jr.

Issue 32 Benton Harbor, Michigan (1840-2007)

Issue 33 September 11, 2001: Official Story

Issue 34 Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)

Issue 35 Alberto R. Gonzales

Issue 36 Louis S. Diggs

Issue 37 The Harlem Hellfighters

Issue 38 Arab-Israeli Conflict

Issue 39 Edward Franklin Frazier

Issue 40 Donny Hathaway

Issue 41 Clinton’s Race Initiative

Issue 42 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

Issue 43 Lead Poisoning

Issue 44 Two Georgia Lynchings

Issue 45 Mutulu Shakur

Issue 46 Andrew Goodman (1943-1964)

Howard University Issue 47

Labor Rights Fight Before the Clayton Act (1914) Issue 48

Grady Memorial Hospital Issue 49

Herbert L. Needleman Issue 50

Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971) Issue 51

Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970) Issue 52

Volume 9………………………..…2006

James Parkinson (901)

John Rogers Commons (902)

Bush's Case for War (903)

Death with Dignity (904)

Foundation of Conflict (905)

Teapot Dome: An Oil Scandal (906)

Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (907)

Imperial President Richard Nixon (908)

Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (909)

Byron Price (910)

United States Indian Removal (911)

Lerone Bennett, Jr. (913)

Thomas Robert Malthus (914)

Norma Merrick Sklarek (915)

Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron (916)

Mao Tse-Tung (917)

Stevie Wonder (918)

Julia Ward Howe (919)

Kwame Nkrumah (920)

US Antitrust Legislation (921)

Abram L. Harris, Jr. (922)

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (923)

Sonora Louise Smart Dodd (924)

John Maynard Keynes (925)

Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (HAMAS) (926)

John Kenneth Galbraith (928)

Israel: Creation and Conflict (929)

Blanche Kelso Bruce (930)

Qana: Operation Grapes of Wrath (931)

Kyoto Protocol (932)

St. Katharine Drexel (933)

World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) (934)

F. H. Romare Bearden (935)

Alcee Lamar Hastings (936)

Eric Arthur Blair (937)

Civil Rights Division of USDOJ (938)

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (939)

Dr. John Hope Franklin (940)

Abraham Lincoln (941)

James Marion Sims (942)

Black Panthers (943)

Theodore M. Berry (944)

John Henrik Clarke (945)

A Premature Harvest (946)

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (947)

John Alexander Sommerville (948)

Ralph J. Bunche (949)

Last Stop Canada (950)

Muhammad Yunus (951)

Francis Julius LeMoyne (952)

Volume 8……….2005

Argentina: Hyperinflation to Default Issue 1

Dorothy Boulding Ferebee Issue 2

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Issue 3

John Milton Hay Issue 4

Charles Wright Mills Issue 5

Private Pension Protection Issue 6

Max Frisch (1911-1991) Issue 7

Mary Burnett Talbert Issue 8

Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811) Issue 9

William Orville Douglas Issue 10

Dr. Helen Caldicott (1938 -) Issue 11

Charles Hamilton Houston Issue 12

George Moses Horton Issue 13

Julien Stelly (?-1896) Issue 14

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Issue 15

Thorstein B. Veblen Issue 16

Civil War Financing Issue 17

Justin Holland Issue 18

Assata Shakur Issue 19

Julian Jaynes Issue 20

James Monroe Issue 21

Rwanda Issue 22

Richard M Nixon Issue 23

Duluth Lynching (1920) Issue 24

The Tigua of Texas Issue 25
Marshall Islands Issue 26

Sissieretta Jones Issue 27

Oscar Cicero Brown, Jr. Issue 28

Wangari Muta Maathai Issue 29

Nuclear Storm: August 1945 Issue 30

Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989) Issue 31

Iranian Revolution Issue 32

Rudolph Diesel (1858 - 1913) Issue 33
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC- 380 BC) Issue 34

US Department of Labor Issue 35

The Great Flood (1927) Issue 36

Imhotep: The True Father of Medicine Issue 37

Allison Marcel Montana Issue 38

Frances Coralie Perkins Issue 39

Davis-Bacon Act (1931-2005) Issue 40

Constance Baker Motley Issue 41

Friedrich August von Hayek Issue 42

Lena Baker Story (1901–1945) Issue 43

Tobacco (1400-2000) Issue 44

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates Issue 45

Minimum Wage (1930-1997) Issue 46

Gordon Roger Buchanan Parks Issue 47

Friedrich W Nietzsche Issue 48

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) Issue 49

Influenza (1173-1960) Issue 50

John Edgar Hoover Issue 51

Benjamin Banneker Issue 52

Volume 7………………………..2004

Cecil John Rhodes Issue 1

David Ricardo Issue 2

The Bracero Program Issue 3

Depression and the New Deal Issue 4

Carter G. Woodson Issue 5

Florida Debacle: Bush v. Gore Issue 6

OWI: WWII Propaganda Issue 7

Tinkers' Free Speech Issue 8

Constitutional Amendments Issue 9

Arthur M. Okun (1928-80) Issue 10

Social Security Act (1935) Issue 11

Hiram Rhoades Revels Issue12

Charles Richard Drew Issue 13

Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill Issue 14

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Issue 15

Zumbi de Palmares: The Slave King Issue 16

Libyan Resistance Issue 17

Nathan Bedford Forrest Issue 18

The "Southern Manifesto" Issue 19

Kenneth Bancroft Clark Issue 20

Muckrakers (1900-1912) Issue 21

Joseph Pulitzer Issue 22

Medgar Wiley Evers Issue 23

Stokley Carmichael Issue 24

Ida Minerva Tarbell Issue 25

Sudan: Early Times to 1969 Issue 26

MARTA (1950-1998) Issue 27

Charles Spurgeon Johnson Issue 28

USS Liberty: Preemptive Strike Issue 29

Milton Friedman: A Conservative Economist Issue 30

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) Issue 31

Mujahideen: Freedom Fighters/Terrorists? Issue 32

United States Senate Issue 33

Joseph Rudyard Kipling Issue 34

Rainbow Herbicides Issue 35

Campaign Financing Scandal Issue 36

War on Poverty (1964-1968) Issue 37

James G. Blaine Issue 38

Harvey Washington Wiley Issue 39

Georgia Regional Transportation Authority Issue 40

The Florida Debacle Issue 41

Roger Brooke Taney Issue 42

Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson Issue 43

William Cullen Bryant Issue 44

Edward Wadie Said Issue 45

Bessie Blount Issue 46

Bunnatine H. Greenhouse Issue 47

David Wark Griffith Issue 48

Noah Webster (1758-1843) Issue 49

Nikolai D. Kondratieff Issue 50

Gold: A Valuable Metal Issue 51

Margaret Abigail Walker Issue 52

Volume 6……….2003

Issue 1 Thomas Robert Malthus

Issue 2 Mary McLeod Bethune

Issue 3 Haile Selassie I (1892-1975)

Issue 4 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Issue 5 Iran-Contra Affair (1982-1992)

Issue 6 Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

Issue 7 Comte Joseph Arthur de Gobineau

Issue 8 Manifest Destiny: American Nationalism

Issue 9 Anderson, Marian (1897-1993)

Issue 10 Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

Issue 11 Moab

Issue 12 Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.

Issue 13 The Last Poets

Issue 14 Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Issue 15 Edward Franklin Frazier

Issue 16 Asa Philip Randolph

Issue 17 Frederick Douglass

Issue 18 Vietnam and the Vietnam War

Issue 19 US Immigration and Naturalization

Issue 20 Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Issue 21 Robert C. Byrd: The Dean of Congress

Issue 22 Leo Strauss (1899-1973)

Issue 23 Nuremberg: Foundation of ICC

Issue 24 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Issue 25 Poverty, Riots and Public Policy

Issue 26 Impending Crisis (1857)

Issue 27 Liberia: US Colonization in Africa

Issue 28 Electoral College: Sidestepping Democracy

Issue 29 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

Issue 30 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Issue 31 John Ernst Steinbeck

Issue 32 James Leonard Farmer, Jr.

Issue 33 Castro's Cuba

Issue 34 Falangists and the Spanish Civil War