Monday, March 7

Good morning!

If you are filling out COLLEGE applications - please read this opinion article from Sunday's NY Times Hidden Gold in college applications

Power point for today's class - Jim Crow in Post-Reconstruction era

Current Events
Nancy Reagan passed away yesterday at the age of 94."An influential First Lady"

Habitat for Humanity builds home in Haverstraw

Today in History

1850

Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.

1876

Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.

1936

Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.

1945

During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.

1965

Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.”