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Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States. -
Bolshevik revolution
On November 6 and 7, 1917, leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke -
Adkins v. Children's Hospital,
Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525, is a United States Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of the liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Adkins was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish. -
teapot scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923 -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.