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In Montreal, the estimated population of black people was 7,000 in 1961, which increased to 50,000 by 1968. McGill University was the first choice of university for many students but, since they had a strict admission policy, they could not be easily accepted.
Some 27 people are injured. On March 4, Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, a former fireman, is arrested by the police. The network bearing his name is partly dismantled. On March 28, François Mario Bachand and other members of the FLQ organize the Opération McGill français. Some 15,000 people demonstrate on the university campus.
Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam—the deadliest single day in the American Civil War [s 3] [s 4] The Scourged Back: c. 2 April 1863: McPherson & Oliver: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Albumen print One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 4] Cartes de Visite: May - August 1863 Andre ...
The central question of the case, The N&O reported, was whether UNC’s admissions policies and practices meet strict scrutiny for why and how they use race as a factor in admissions.
2,000 people attended the burial of artist Diego Rivera in the Rotunda of Illustrious Sons at the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City. [ 226 ] Members of the United States Congress were present for a failed test of a Jupiter missile at Cape Canaveral , Florida.
The proposal seeks to make college admissions less of a rat race that favors well-off students and it has three main goals. Harvard just proposed a radically new approach to college admissions in ...
Two portraits of members of the McGill family were shown on a segment of African American Lives presented by Henry Louis Gates; one of the members of the family shown was Urias McGill, known as the "Merchant of Monrovia" Daguerreotypes of the McGill family are held in the Library of Congress as they were among the early 19th-century colonizers ...
John Brown Russwurm (October 1, 1799 – June 9, 1851) was a Jamaican-born American abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonist of Liberia, where he moved from the United States. He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother.