Rank: 7th largest (87 percent of Nevada's land area is federally controlled) Highest elevation: Boundary Peak in Esmeralda County - 13,140 feet; Lowest elevation: On the Colorado River in Clark County - 470 feet; Nevada Nicknames. Battle-Born State; Sagebrush State; Silver State; The origin of the state's name is Spanish, meaning snow-capped. Facts About Nevada. The presence of Nevada's earliest inhabitants, beginning about 12,400 years ago, is marked by many petroglyphs and archaeological sites.
The modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is often called a Second Reconstruction. Compare the legislative achievements and protest strategies of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.ompare the legislative achievements and protest strategies of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
A Second Revolution. Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the second American Revolution and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments a second Bill of Rights for African Americans.he sweeping civil rights changes of the 1950s and '60s were the victories not only of celebrated heroes such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. but of the countless foot soldiers such as Robert Fox who fought the early battles of our nation's civil rights revolution.