Chattanooga

Yusef Lateef born on October 9, 1920, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Five years later he and his family packed up and moved to Detroit. In the vast musical environment in Detroit, he began to form some long lasting friendships with people such as Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, and Lucky Thompson. Yusef became proficient at the tenor saxophone in high school and by the time he was eighteen he was touring with swings bands. Yusef was asked to join swing bands ran by two jazz masters Harley Toots and…

Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the enthusiasm of an Atlanta medicate authority, Dr. John S. Pemberton, drove him to make an unmistakable tasting pop that could be sold at pop wellsprings. He made a prepared syrup, took it to his neighborhood tranquilize store, where it was mixed with carbonated water and considered "heavenly" by the people who analyzed it. Dr. Pemberton's accessory and assistant, Prospective M. Robinson, is credited with naming the drink "Coca‑Cola" and furthermore…

L3 Forum 3: Reflection Week two has been off to a good start just like the previous week. I feel the more we get into the book the more we all will understand business terms and reasoning more. This week was over charters six and seven in the workbook. I read through the material and the terms I gained a better understanding of what this week was about and what we as a class needed to grasp. The information was helpful and beneficial to me. I think next week will be even more helpful as the…

Part A: Plan of Investigation Topic: Was Gen. William T. Sherman’s march to Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War a justifiable use of total war? General Sherman’s march from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia was a justifiable use of total war. To prove this, one first needs a clear definition of total war. Total war can be defined as a war in which one side uses all of its available resources to complete its goal at any costs. Sherman’s march to Atlanta fits this definition…

the chart and earned several Grammys, people choice awards, and among other honors. He had sold up to 1 million copies of the album “ Confessions” in the first week it got released. (biography.om). Usher Raymond was born on “October 14, 1978 in Chattanooga, Tennessee”, he had entered his celebrity days at the age of 14, two years after he had moved in with his mom and his only sibling brother in Atlanta. After recording at “ Star Search” he had landed a recording contract and released his first…

The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused(falsely) of raping two white women on a train ride from Chattanooga to Memphis Tennessee in 1931. The case was a landmark moment in African American liberation and rights. The boys were traveling on a freight train when police stopped the train upon hearing that African Americans were attacking white travelers. When they opened up the train car, they discovered two white women were traveling with the boys. The women…

death penalty, shifting the responsibility to the jury instead. “It would appear that having 12 people on a jury making the decision would be more valid because there are more opinions,” said Carter Helm a freshman majoring in marketing from Chattanooga, Tn. Jameson Evans a sophomore majoring in computer science from Moscow, Idaho weighed in with his experience from his home state. “A jury always makes that decision in Idaho and it has never been a problem,” he said. Alabama is the…

rates have declined significantly while immigration has increased (Chattanooga). Clearly immigration and crime have no strong correlation with each other. So this leads to the question; Is the worry of immigration about crime and safety of our citizens? Or the racism of those who oppose immigration such as Donald Trump. For example, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez is a Mexican man who has been convictedconvinced of murder (Chattanooga). Donald Trump, a non-supporter of immigration, is quoted "This…

The Scottsboro trials were one of the most blatantly obvious examples of racially corrupted systems in the 1930’s. Nine boys were convicted, not on evidence, but on the color of their skin. There were many appeals and retrials, but for these boys, honest justice was served too little too late. The boys faced a corrupt system made up of unfair trials, several appeals, two completely different judges, and they were not pardoned until eight of the nine were dead forty-six years later. The stories…

main rebel force in the East. The battle of Missionary Ridge was a Union victory that reinforced Lincoln’s confidence in Grant’s capabilities. The Union completely overwhelmed the Confederacy, and they walked away with four thousand prisoners. Chattanooga would serve as a base for armies entering into Georgia. 4. There are several reasons why soldiers from both the North and South deserted. Lost battles, retreats, and other military losses influenced soldiers’ desertion. Sickness, hunger,…