Hiring procedures on Naval Station Rota fall under the guidelines in the Agreement on Defense Cooperation (ADC) between Spain and the United States. A strict adherence is maintained to the ratio of seven Spanish employees for every three U.S. employees.
W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP. The NAACP was founded on the belief that nonviolent protests and legal actions were the best ways to ensure equal rights for all Americans. Du Bois became a member of the NAACP board and edited a journal of opinions called The Crisis.
If the planter were a small one, just getting started, he might be working with his slaves, giving rise to what some scholars have called âsawbuck equality,â evoked by the image of a master and slave in early South Carolina who worked several days sawing logs, each facing the other on opposite ends of a whip saw.