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Hace 4 días · “*Super Lawyer Thaddeus Stevens*\n\nBy Ross Hetrick\n\nOf all Thaddeus Stevens’s abilities, his talent as a lawyer was his\ngreatest. In a June 28, 1885 article in the *Baltimore American, *a person\nwho knew him said this: \”Mr. Stevens was regarded by many people with an\nair of superstition.
Hace 1 día · As The Nation expressed in its 1868 eulogy of Thaddeus Stevens, highlighting the importance of the radical abolitionist movement broadly: "Any young politician who proposes to get on in the world by being a cowardly sneak, as thousands of young politicians do, cannot help profiting by the study of [Stevens’s] life.
Hace 5 días · Super Lawyer Thaddeus Stevens. June 2024. By Ross Hetrick. Of all Thaddeus Stevens's abilities, his talent as a lawyer was his greatest. In a June 28, 1885 article in the Baltimore American, a person who knew him said this: "Mr. Stevens was regarded by many people with an air of superstition.
Hace 1 día · We see Thaddeus Stevens’ commitment to building social, economic, and political power for all people. He worked tirelessly public education in Pennsylvania and for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment which confirmed citizenship for all people born in this county, including those who had been enslaved.
Hace 2 días · A traveler driving across the North could stop in nearly every town with a black population and find a school named after Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, or prominent black intellectuals such as Phyllis Wheatley or Arthur Dunbar and know by the school’s name that it was segregated.
Hace 4 días · He won more than a thousand cases during his legal career, according to the book, Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg: The Making of an Abolitionist by Bradley R. Hoch. And after Stevens moved to Lancaster, PA in 1842 he earned $15,000 a year, the equivalent of $357,000 in 2004 dollars, the book said.
Hace 3 días · Prominent leaders like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner advocated for significant changes in Southern society, including land redistribution and voting rights for African Americans. The essay highlights their major achievements, such as the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
