In the south, racist practices kept African Americans off of voter rolls until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, also (if I understand correctly) keeping them off of juries in many jurisdictions. Why were women kept ineligible for juries for almost 50 years after the passage of the 19th amendment (again, in the deep south)?

Even though there was the Free French Resistance throughout the war, why was France given so much at the end and post WWII; mainly a chunk of West Germany/Berlin and a permanent seat at the UN Security Council? Not that I don't recognize the importance of France in world history but it seems to me that they received an awful lot of from The Allies after having their asses handed to them and without UK/American intervention, would never have stood a chance in reclaiming a significant chunk of their former country; either from Germany or from a successful domination of Europe by the USSR.

Was it just a buffer against the USSR? Something pushed by the Americans having to do with their relationship with France in the past 150ish years? I understand that while the US and UK could have easily conquered France into submission, that was not the end goal. Regardless, it just seems that France itself got a lot of preferential treatment by the allies compared to what the other previously conquered nations of Europe received upon liberation.

Apologies if this has been asked/answered before - I did a search and didn't come up with anything specific to my train of thought. I asked this about a year ago as well and did not receive any responses.

Thanks!

I know Lord Coke in Bonham's case (1610) had some dictum which might claim judicial review for a court, but that was controversial in 1610 and remains so (and never caught on in England). I also know Marbury v Madison and its progeny, and how for the most part judicial review has worked out pretty well for us. But I don't know its historical antecedents, if any. Was this somehow an Enlightenment idea that C.J. Marshall ran with? Part of the 'grand experiment'? Is the US still the only country to have it or did it develop in other places too?

I think this is question a lot of people have, and I'm sure it gained some popularity after the release of Fury in 2014, but I've never come across a definitive answer in my research. For this question I'm excluding tank action on the Eastern Front and in the Pacific (and as far as the latter goes, largely because Japan's tanks were quite lackluster against anything they faced).

Numbers I have come across in research say that of all American servicemen sent overseas during World War II as enlisted tankers, about 3% were killed in action, and that in general American tankers had an 80% survival rate and that British tankers had a slightly lower survival rate (mortality rate for them was about 7% from what I've seen). These are all numbers I've come across when doing my own research, but again, the answers are generally always vague and sometimes the numbers just don't match.

EDIT: And just something I'd like to mention....

I've read claims that U.S. tank crews only encountered four (4) Tiger tanks in total post-D-Day, and that no Shermans were lost to them, only one Pershing (which I am aware of), but I find this quite hard to believe. How accurate is this claim?

I'm blwck, so this isn't a racist question. I'm just legitimately curious as with Europe and Asia you had guns, ships and vast empires. I know Africa had kingdoms and stuff and there were alot of resources. Was there just not a social/political initiative for such things?

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I’m 18 so obviously I wasn’t around for the whole OJ thing but I’m really curious about how it is still prevalent in today’s culture and how it became such a racialized thing.

Edit: This did happen more than 20 years ago so it qualifies for the sub rules.

I know the history of GM using their national city lines subsidiary to dismantle the lines but I’m looking for original accounts of people reacting to or comparing bus service to street car lines.

The second part of my title is a bit misleading, my bad. I mean the other generals, such as Stonewall Jackson or Nathan Bedford Forrest, compared to Northern generals.

Was it shortened because they needed as many soldiers as possible or did they stick to the normal amount of time used before the war started?

In the events leading up to the vote itself, there were a great number of discussions, proposals, draft resolutions, and items added to agendas. These were put forth by a great variety of nations that didn't seem to be directly related to the question- nations such as Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia.

How did these nations come to be on particular sides of the question? Indeed, what sides were there and who was leading them? Was this an extension of the Cold War? How was the PRC involved in getting this resolution formulated and passed?

It seems that this dispute was much more troubled than the comparatively smooth transition between the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. For something as important as a dispute over a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, I find that I know very little about it. Thank you in advance for your help!

In short, it seems that gay culture became fairly mainstream in the 80s despite the fact that, AFAIK, there was no mainstream support for major LGBTQ rights issues that have only come to prominence in the last decade or two.

I believe this was the case in the Mediterranean, but what about other parts of the world?

I don’t know if this is the best question to ask, but it is always portrayed in media that in Middle Ages and after, usually people wore steel armor or chain mail. But yet during the revolution, most people wore common clothes or uniforms. Wouldn’t wearing armor have been more effective against early muskets and other weapons?

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If the U. S had broken the Japanese code before the battle of Midway ,and the British had cracked the enigma code machine from a captured U -boat,did anybody in the Axis command structure consider changing the codes ? Wouldn’t this have been basic signal security ?

How Many U.S. Presidents Owned Slaves?