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The Battle of Algiers
Battle of Algiers, The BIBLIOGRAPHY Often presented as an account of the Algerian struggle for freedom, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 film The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri ) is in fact more precisely defined as an analysis of t... Read more |
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Speech Or Debate Clause
Speech Or Debate Clause The Constitution provides that members of Congress “for any Speech or Debate in either House … shall not be questioned in any other Place” (Art. I, sec. 6). This protection, which grew out of centuries of struggle between the English parliament and... Read more |
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Red Guards
Red Guards in Chinese history, politically active students of the Cultural Revolution (1966-69), who organized units to carry out Mao Zedong 's aim of rerevolutionizing Chinese society. As their numbers grew, the units engaged in factional struggles, and in 1968 Mao suppressed the movement.... Read more |
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Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima 1946– Filmmaker Embraced America, Shunned Ethiopia Turned to Film to Reclaim His Culture Chose Howard University Over Hollywood Struggled to Make Sankofa Works Continued to Reclaim History Sources Filmmaker Haile Gerima Read more |
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Mario de Andrade
Mario de Andrade Mario de Andrade (1928-1990), as a poet, critic, and political activist expressed the struggle of the people of Angola (and other Portuguese colonies) for independence from colonial rule. Mario Coelho Pinto de Andrade was born on August 21, 1928, in the town of Galungo Alto,... Read more |
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Wars of Religion
Wars of Religion 1562-98, series of civil wars in France, also known as the Huguenot Wars. The immediate issue was the French Protestants' struggle for freedom of worship and the right of establishment (see Huguenots ). Of equal importance, however, was the struggle for power between the crown... Read more |
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liberation theology
liberation theology belief that the Christian Gospel demands "a preferential option for the poor," and that the church should be involved in the struggle for economic and political justice in the contemporary world—particularly in the Third World. Dating to the Second Vatican Council... Read more |
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Mitchell Frederick Hepburn
Mitchell Frederick Hepburn 1896-1953, Canadian political leader. A member of the House of Commons (1926-34), he was chosen (1930) leader of the Liberal party in Ontario and became (1934) premier of the province. Several years later, he became involved in struggles with labor organizations and with... Read more |
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Kulturkampf
Kulturkampf [Ger.,=conflict of cultures], the conflict between the German government under Bismarck and the Roman Catholic Church. The promulgation (1870) of the dogma of the infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals within the church sparked the conflict; it implied that the... Read more |
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womens movement
women's movement This term refers to the mobilization of women around the project of changing and improving their position in society. It is often used interchangeably with ‘Women's Liberation Movement’ to describe the second wave of feminism from the 1970s onwards (the first wave... Read more |
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Supporting the indispensable.(Review)
...Cultural Freedom, the uneasy...successor to the Congress for Cultural Freedom...reports on cultural freedom from...Congress for Cultural Freedom...of and ... |
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The Encounter Group
THE LIBERAL CONSPIRACY The Congress for Cultural Freedom And the Struggle for the Mind Of Postwar Europe...account of the Congress for Cultural Freedom is a sorely ... |
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UNSETTLED QUESTIONS.(Transcript)
THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM FIFTY YEARS...Congress for Cultural Freedom which...book The Liberal Conspiracy, then touch...leftists or liberals had no ... |