Trinidad and Tobago Immigrants to the United States - Stephen Mallory, Nicki Minaj, Stokely Carmichael, Graham Goddard, Pearl Primus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Stephen Mallory, Nicki Minaj, Stokely Carmichael, Graham Goddard, Pearl Primus, Hayden Knight, Augustus Nathaniel Lushington, Jennifer Carroll, Michael Griffith, Mervyn M. Dymally, Marian Marsh, Tarita Virtue, Roger Toussaint, Roger Bonair-Agard, Sullivan Walker, Larry R. Felix, Lorraine Toussaint, Ben Ali, Anthony Herrera, Austin Stoker, Elizabeth Nunez, Randy Morrison. Excerpt: Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 - November 9, 1873) served in the United States Senate as, Senator (Democrat) from Florida from 1850 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. This was a time of rapid naval reform, and he insisted that the ships of the United States Navy should be as capable as those of Great Britain and France, the foremost navies in the world at that time. He also wrote a bill and guided it through Congress that provided for compulsory retirement of officers who did not meet the standards of the profession. Although he was not a leader in the secession movement, Mallory followed his state out of the Union. When the Confederate States of America was formed, he was named Secretary of the Navy in the administration of President Jefferson Davis. He held the position throughout the existence of the Confederacy. Because of indifference to naval matters by most others in the Confederacy, Mallory was able to shape the Confederate Navy according to the principles he had learned while serving in the US Senate. Some of his ideas, such as the incorporation of armor into warship construction, were quite successful and became standard in navies around the world; on the other hand, the navy was often handicapped by administrative ineptitude in the Navy Department. During the war, he was weakened politically by a Congressional in...