The case of Pigford vs Glickman was a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture or also known as the USDA. This issue was caused by the fact that there was racial discrimination being used against African-American farmers. This was caused by the USDA not giving African-American farmers a loan because they did not have credit. This caused many people to lose their land, revert to share crops or tenant farming. Some areas in the United States were affected more than others by this discrimination and one of these areas is the Mississippi Delta.

The Palais Garnier, a building ran by the Paris Opera Ballet Company or “Opéra national de Paris,” was completed on January 5 of 1875. This building was designed as a lasting mark left by Napoléon III, following a failed assanitation attempt. Located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, it was believed such an open standing building would ensure security as the attempt on the President’s life was still fresh.

Elizabeth Barret Browning's family relocated to the Hope End Estate in Herefordshire in 1809. She would have been three years old. They would have been living here when Elizabeth's father gifted the twenty-volume Shakespeare to Elizabeth's aunt, Arabella. The family remained at Hope End until 1832, when a slave rebellion on the family's plantation in Jamaica strained the family's finances and forced them to relocate to Sidmouth in Devonshire.