The community's original name was Coal Bed, but was changed to Wales in 1857. There once was a railroad depot and it was an important and busy mining center. The mines and train were abandoned when more productive mines were discovered in Scofield, Utah.
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:19 PM. Bruce Dawe wrote his poem âHomecomingâ in 1968 during the Viet Nam war. The poem is an anti-war poem giving the authorâs negative view of his home country Australiaâs involvement in the dehumanizing conflict. The title of the poem provides irony. When one thinks of homecoming, it is usually a happy time or one that both parties find reviving.
Civil rights leader Julian Bond attends the NAACP's 2006 convention at the Washington Convention Center on July 18, 2006. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg). Duff Thomas: 1966 did not provide a focal point for the Civil Rights Movement.The closest occasion for pulling together interest came when James Meredith, the first Negro to attend the University of Mississippi was shot while on a march through that State.uff Thomas: Regardless of what proponents of black power said it could do, Civil Rights legislation did not fair well in 1966. The Civil Rights Movement suffered its first major setback since 1957.