Georgia Padlet by https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0 "You gotta be Brave in the State of Georgia." en-us 2017-02-14 13:57:49 UTC 2026-02-23 01:32:56 UTC hello@padlet.com DQ-Video dmoor0088 https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154002671 William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States. He was a good friend of  the former President Theodore Roosevelt, and he was also the only President to hold an executive and judicial position. He made many contributions while he was in office. He had the
 Mann-Elkins Act passed and also signed the Publicity Act. He can also can be considered as a trust-busting President, after busting over 90 anti-trust cases.]]> 2017-02-15 14:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154002671 A Leading Voice in Muckraking- Kahmiyah krobi0147 https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154002926 Lincoln Steffans was a reporter for New York Evening Post, where he learned about the immigrant slums of the East side and became friends with Theodore Roosevelt. He revealed the shortcomings of the popular dogmas that connected economic success with moral worth, and national progress with individual self-interest. Lincoln's exposing of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform.

"Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it."
 
]]> 2017-02-15 14:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154002926 William Taft laqui8673 https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154003714 Appearing a few days before the Republican National Convention convened in Chicago on June 16, 1908, the Harper's Weekly cartoon pokes fun at the girth of William Howard Taft, the all-but-certain presidential nominee of the Republicans. Taft was mimicking Roosevelt's political positions in order to gain the presidency.  The president whose weight was around 300 pounds, tried and unsuccessfully fit into President Theodore Roosevelt's Rough-Rider uniform.  
Caption: Uncle Sam:"Bill, you'd look so much better in your own clothes." ]]> 2017-02-15 14:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154003714 "I believe that all men, black, brown, and white are brothers."- W.E.B Dubois krobi0147 https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154294326 Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.  In 1885, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend Fisk University. It was there that he first encountered Jim Crow laws. For the first time, he began analyzing the deep troubles of American racism. 
Dubois was one of the founding members of the Niagara Movement. He believed African Americans should take active roles in the struggle for equality. ]]> 2017-02-16 13:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/krobi0147/frwtq7p46ze0/wish/154294326