https://rji.newshare.com//index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=News-battle 2026-04-16T11:48:10Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 https://rji.newshare.com//index.php?title=News-battle&diff=301&oldid=prev 2008-11-05T15:42:50Z

<p><span class="autocomment">SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:42, 5 November 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election=</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election=</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and daughter, Donna Pierce]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and daughter, Donna Pierce]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A day after his 84th birthday, Eliot Battle, right, celebrated an American presidential election with his daughter, former Chicago Tribune reporter Donna Pierce, and about 20 other friends at the Battle home in Columbia, Mo. Battle recalled the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challange </del>of claiming his own voting franchise as a young man in Mobile, Ala. Now retired as guidance director of Columbia's public schools, Battle says: "I never thought I would live to see the day" that a black man would be elected the nation's president.  (Photo taken by [http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore] at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, before news of an Obama victory seemed certain).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A day after his 84th birthday, Eliot Battle, right, celebrated an American presidential election with his daughter, former Chicago Tribune reporter Donna Pierce, and about 20 other friends at the Battle home in Columbia, Mo. Battle recalled the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challenge </ins>of claiming his own voting franchise as a young man in Mobile, Ala. Now retired as guidance director of Columbia's public schools, Battle says: "I never thought I would live to see the day" that a black man would be elected the nation's president.  (Photo taken by [http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore] at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, before news of an Obama victory seemed certain).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See story [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/04/columbia-civil-rights-leaders-reflect-historic-election/ at the Columbia Missourian] by reporter Catherine Martin.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See story [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/04/columbia-civil-rights-leaders-reflect-historic-election/ at the Columbia Missourian] by reporter Catherine Martin.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:36, 5 November 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election=</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election=</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and daughter, Donna Pierce]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and daughter, Donna Pierce]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A day after his 84th birthday, Eliot Battle, right, celebrated an American presidential election with his daughter, former Chicago Tribune reporter Donna Pierce, and about 20 other friends at the Battle home in Columbia, Mo. Battle recalled the challange of claiming his own voting franchise as a young man in Mobile, Ala. Now retired as guidance director of Columbia's public schools, Battle says: "I never thought I would live to see the day" that a black man would be elected the nation's president.  (Photo taken at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, before news of an Obama victory seemed certain).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A day after his 84th birthday, Eliot Battle, right, celebrated an American presidential election with his daughter, former Chicago Tribune reporter Donna Pierce, and about 20 other friends at the Battle home in Columbia, Mo. Battle recalled the challange of claiming his own voting franchise as a young man in Mobile, Ala. Now retired as guidance director of Columbia's public schools, Battle says: "I never thought I would live to see the day" that a black man would be elected the nation's president.  (Photo taken <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by [http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore] </ins>at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, before news of an Obama victory seemed certain).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See story [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/04/columbia-civil-rights-leaders-reflect-historic-election/ at the Columbia Missourian] by reporter Catherine Martin.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See story [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/04/columbia-civil-rights-leaders-reflect-historic-election/ at the Columbia Missourian] by reporter Catherine Martin.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg =SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election= [[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and d...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg<br /> =SNAPSHOT: A day past 84, Eliot Battle&#039;s family celebrates an American election=<br /> [[Image:Battle-cake-10-04-08.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Eliot Battle, right, and daughter, Donna Pierce]]<br /> A day after his 84th birthday, Eliot Battle, right, celebrated an American presidential election with his daughter, former Chicago Tribune reporter Donna Pierce, and about 20 other friends at the Battle home in Columbia, Mo. Battle recalled the challange of claiming his own voting franchise as a young man in Mobile, Ala. Now retired as guidance director of Columbia&#039;s public schools, Battle says: &quot;I never thought I would live to see the day&quot; that a black man would be elected the nation&#039;s president. (Photo taken at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, before news of an Obama victory seemed certain). <br /> <br /> See story [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/04/columbia-civil-rights-leaders-reflect-historic-election/ at the Columbia Missourian] by reporter Catherine Martin.</div>

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