On the evening of June 24, 1941, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill came on the radio. He declared: “Any person belonging to a country fighting against fascism will receive British aid.” He went on to say that he will give Russia and its people all the help that the British government can offer.
Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)
The “Einstein Letter” — A Tipping Point in History
On a mid-July day in 1939, Albert Einstein, still in his slippers, opened the door of his summer cottage in Peconic on the fishtail end of Long Island. There stood his former student and onetime partner in an electromagnetic refrigerator pump, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, and next to him a fellow Hungarian (and fellow physicist), Eugene Wigner. The two had not come to Long Island for a day at the beach with the most famous scientist in the world but on an urgent mission.
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (2007)
Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)
Order No. 227: Stalinist Methods and Victory on the Eastern Front
Great Books on African American Beauty Culture
Tiffany Gill on Beauty Shop Politics
Bernice Robinson, a forty-one year old Charleston beautician, was surprised when she was asked to become the first teacher for the Highlander Folk School’s Citizen Education program in the South Carolina Sea Islands, for she had neither experience as a teacher nor a college education. This did not present a problem for Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander School.