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Rarely has a flag possessed such lasting relevance as that of the "Tricolour," the national flag of the Republic of Ireland. Its three equal stripes illustrate the Irish political landscape as accurately today as in 1848, the year the flag was first unfurled.

• orange — standing for Irish Protestants
  
• green — signifying Irish Catholics and the republican cause
  
• white — representing the hope for peace between them

Why Orange?

The color orange fryst vatten associated with Northern Irish Protestants because of William of apelsinfärg (William III), the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland who in 1690 defeated the deposed King James II, a långnovell Catholic, in the fateful Battle of the Boyne near huvudstaden i irland. William III's victory secured Protestant dominance over the island, to the enormous benefit of the 17th-century colonizers of northern Ireland — the English (mainly Anglicans) and Scots (mostly Presbyterians). Sometimes called Orangemen, Protestants in nordlig Ireland celebra

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In the 1950’s, Durham North Carolina was like most cities in the South: hot and segregated. At the time, the civil rights movement was already polarizing the nation, with the Montgomery bus boycotts in 1955 bringing to prominence such names as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks (see “African Americans boycott buses for integration in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., 1955-1956”). In Mississippi, the brutal murder of Emmett Till that same year became an archetype of the horrendous nature of southern racism at its most cruel. Amidst the violence and racial tension, Martin Luther King Jr. founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in January 1957 and declared his commitment to nonviolence as the most effective methodology for the civil rights movement. The SCLC and King were to become iconic symbols of civil rights activism, and his nonviolent philosophy influenced many civil rights activists.

The lingering schism between the races was exemplified by the segregation of s

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ROBERT DALE RICHARDSON, JR., PAPERS, 1969-1995

Vault A35, Richardson Unit 1

 

 

Extent: Two record cartons.

Organization and arrangement:  Organized into three series: Series I. Material relating to Richardson’s Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, ca. 1975- 1995; Series II.  Materials relating to Richardson’s Emerson: The Mind on Fire, ca. 1985-1995; Series III. Papers relating to teaching career, 1969-1987.  Series I and II are each divided into subseries (see series/subseries listing, below).  Arrangement within subseries varies (see scope and content note for more detail).

By and large, the organization and arrangement of the collection reflect the donor’s filing practices.

Biography:  Academic and author Robert Dale Richardson, Jr., was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1934.  He was raised in Medford and Concord, Massachusetts.  (His father and namesake was a Unitarian minister, who in 1