organized resistance

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• John E. Bruce: African American Plea for Organized Resistance to White Men (1889) — ▪ Primary Source       When reactionary white supremacists regained political power in the South after Reconstruction, they imposed upon African Americans a regime of terror and disfranchisement calculated to override the legal provisions of the… …   Universalium

• National Conference on Organized Resistance — The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) is an annual event that brings together activists from a variety of issues, struggles, ideologies and backgrounds for a weekend of learning and reflecting on the state of progressive… …   Wikipedia

• Resistance (military) — In military terminology, resistance or organised resistance refers to the ability of a military unit to continue to oppose an attack. Resistance ends when a unit surrenders, when all members of unit are killed or captured, or when a unit… …   Wikipedia

• organized — [[t]ɔ͟ː(r)gənaɪzd[/t]] ♦♦♦ (in BRIT, also use organised) 1) ADJ: ADJ n An organized activity or group involves a number of people doing something together in a structured way, rather than doing it by themselves. ...organised groups of art thieves …   English dictionary

• Resistance during World War II — occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. Resistance movements are sometimes also… …   Wikipedia

• Resistance — may refer to: Physics * Electrical resistance, a measure of the degree to which an object opposes an electric current through it * Friction, the force that opposes (relative) motion ** Drag (physics) ( air resistance ), fluid or gas forces… …   Wikipedia

• resistance — early 15c., from Fr. résistance, earlier resistence, from L.L. resistentia, from L. resistentem (nom. resistens), prp. of resistere (see RESIST (Cf. resist)). Meaning organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power is from 1939.… …   Etymology dictionary

• resistance — [ri zis′təns] n. [ME < MFr resistence < LL resistentia] 1. the act of resisting, opposing, withstanding, etc. 2. power or capacity to resist; specif., the ability of an organism to ward off disease 3. opposition of some force, thing, etc.… …   English World dictionary

• Resistance movement — Members of the White Rose, Munich 1942. From left: Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst …   Wikipedia

• organized labour — Introduction also called  trade unionism,        association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action. Great Britain (United… …   Universalium

• Resistance —    When the opportunity presented itself, Jews resisted the Germans. The many acts of defiance, however, did not prevent the annihilation of the bulk of European Jewry. Yet there is a record of thousands of Jews who in different situations… …   Historical dictionary of the Holocaust