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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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Central Time may refer to a time zone in the middle of some region: Central Time Zone, in North America (CST = UTC−06:00; CDT = UTC−05:00) Central European Time (CET = UTC+01:00; Central European Summer Time [CEST] / Central European Daylight Time [CEDT] = UTC+02:00) Central Africa Time (CAT = UTC+02:00) Central Indonesian Time (Indonesian: Waktu Indonesia Tengah, WITA), UTC+08:00 — see time in Indonesia Time in Australia § Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) – UTC+09:30 (ACDT/CDST = UTC+10:30)
The Central Time Zone is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean Islands. It is one hour behind the Eastern Time Zone. Daylight saving time (DST) is observed in most parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and several border municipalities in Mexico): Central Standard Time (CST) is observed from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. It is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and designated internationally as UTC−6. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, the same areas observe DST, creating the designation of Central Daylight Time (CDT), which is five hours behind UTC and known formally as UTC−5.
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00). In Canada and the United States, this time zone is generically called Mountain Time (MT). Specifically, it is Mountain Standard Time (MST) when observing standard time, and Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) when observing daylight saving time. The term refers to the Rocky Mountains. Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, and Sonora in Mexico, and most of Arizona in the United States, do not observe daylight saving time (DST), and during the spring, summer, and autumn months they are on the same time as Pacific Daylight Time. The Canadian province of British Columbia and Yukon Territory observe permanent daylight saving time in the Pacific Time Zone, which is equivalent to year-round Mountain Standard Time. The largest city in the Mountain Time Zone is Phoenix, Arizona; the Phoenix metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone. The largest city that observes daylight saving time is Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time at the 105th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. In the United States, the exact specification for the location of time zones and the dividing lines between zones is set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 CFR 71.
The scheduling of television programming in North America (namely the United States, Canada, and Mexico) must cope with different time zones. The United States (excluding territories) has six time zones (Hawaii–Aleutian, Alaska, Pacific, Mountain (including MST), Central and Eastern). Canada has five time zones (Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfoundland). Mexico has four time zones (Southeast, Central, Pacific, and Northwest). In addition, each country has further variation across these zones in the observance of daylight saving time. This requires broadcast and pay television networks in each country to shift programs in time to show them in different regions.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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