Black Tuesday

Examples of Black Tuesday in the following topics:

• The Great Depression and the New Deal

  • ., after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday).

• Causes of Banking Crises

  • The Great Depression highlights how bank runs caused a banking crisis, which ultimately became a global economic crisis.The Great Depression in 1929 resulted from a variety of complex inputs, but the turning point came in the form of a mass stock market crash (Black Tuesday) and subsequent bank runs.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected President of the United States on November 6th, 2012, serving a second term as the nation's first black president.
  • Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected President of the United States on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.
  • He served a second term as the nation's first black president.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Thousands of Americans headed to Washington on Tuesday August 27, 1963.
  • In the spring of 1951, black students in Virginia protested their unequal status in the state's segregated educational system.
  • Black Power was made most public, however, by the Black Panther Party, which was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, in 1966.
  • A wave of inner city riots in black communities from 1964 through 1970 undercut support from the white community.
  • The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1966 to 1975, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its nonviolence, and instead demanded political and economic self-sufficiency.

• Mobilizing a Nation

  • The War Department drafted hundreds of thousands of African-American men into the army with equal pay, but placed them in segregated units with black soldiers led by white officers.
  • Largely kept out of combat, a group of black service members protested directly to Wilson but were met by his response, “Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
  • Apart from "Wheatless Wednesdays" and "Meatless Tuesdays" due to poor harvests in 1916 and 1917, there were "Fuelless Mondays" and "Gasless Sundays" to preserve coal and gasoline.

• Cross-Training and Job Sharing

  • Mary works on Monday and Tuesday, and Susan occupies the same position on Thursday and Friday.
  • For example, one person is responsible for a task on Monday, but another performs it on Tuesday.

• Example: Test for Goodness of Fit

  • If the absent days occur with equal frequencies then, out of $60$ absent days (the total in the sample: $15 + 12 + 9 + 9 + 15 = 60$), there would be $12$ absences on Monday, $12$ on Tuesday, $12$ on Wednesday, $12$ on Thursday, and $12$ on Friday.

• Getting Help Meeting College Writing Expectations

  • Tuesday: Do research at the library from 5:00 to 9:00, taking detailed notes and planning how each piece of research will fit into your paper.
  • Tuesday: Revise, edit and proofread the essay one more time.
  • Subject: Expository Writing 101: Office hours on Tuesday              
  • Would it be convenient to discuss them during your office hours on Tuesday?

• Black Power

  • Black Power emphasized racial pride, the creation of political and social institutions against oppression, and advancement of black collective interests.
  • "Black Power" is a term used to refer to various ideologies associated with African Americans in the United States, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values.
  • Black Power meant a variety of things.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. was not comfortable with the "Black Power" slogan, which sounded too much like black nationalism to him.
  • The 1960s composed a decade not only of Black Power but also of Black Pride.

• Planck's Quantum Hypothesis and Black Body Radiation

  • A black body emits radiation called black body radiation.
  • A black body in thermal equilibrium (i.e. at a constant temperature) emits electromagnetic radiation called black body radiation.
  • This equation explains the black body spectra shown below.
  • Typical spectrum from a black body at different temperatures (shown in blue, green and red curves).
  • Identify assumption made by Max Planck to describe the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body