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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal class-action lawsuit to block implementation of unconstitutional provisions of Proposition 35 in mid-2013 and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments on September 10, 2013.
César Chávez, American labor leader and civil rights activist; C. C. Cottrell, 1933 to 1939 California State Assembly member; Nathan Damigo, founder of Identity Evropa an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist organization [citation needed], grew up in San Jose. Don Edwards, U.S. Representative from California 1963–1995, born in San Jose
Trans-Mississippi Theater John Jumper (Hemha Micco) was a colonel of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.. In 1884, The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that nearly all of the Seminoles "espoused the cause of the Union" and because all of the neighboring tribes (Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Creeks) "almost unanimously joined the Southern Confederacy, it was neither agreeable ...
Carter, Bryan Anthony. "Frontier Apart: Identity, Loyalty, and the Coming of the Civil War on the Pacific Coast" (PhD. Diss. Oklahoma State University, 2014) online, with detail;ed bibliography; Edwards, G. Thomas. "Six Oregon Leaders and the Far-Reaching Impact of America's Civil War". Oregon Historical Quarterly 100#1 (Spring 1999): 4–31.
The state of Rhode Island during the American Civil War remained loyal to the Union, as did the other states of New England. Rhode Island furnished 25,236 fighting men to the Union Army, of which 1,685 died. The state used its industrial capacity to supply the Union Army with the materials needed to win the war.
Civil War Regiments in Montana Territory. Although no organized Confederate forces reached Montana Territory, a series of union regiments, most of which were raised to fight confederates in the south, instead found themselves far to the west of the Civil War, fighting Native Americans and guarding outposts in Montana Territory.
Washington Territory before the Civil War was the most remote place in the United States from the theater of conflict. Additionally, Washington Territory only had peace with the local Indians for three years when the Civil War began and the few settlers there were just recovering from the fear and economic strain those wars had caused them.