February marks Black History Month, the annual celebration of historic events and achievements made by black Americans. While Black History Month is recognized in Canada and the United Kingdom, it first began in the United States in 1976. Schools everywhere have been teaching children about the Civil Rights Movement – Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X – and the events that helped America make the progress to reach that turning point, like Sojourner Truth’s work as an abolitionist and
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Gina Ventura January 23, 2013 Civil Rights Movements Class Dr. Meadors Film: Awakenings The Film Awakenings was based on the Civil Rights movements. It involved history of its participants, its leaders, and those who were against it. The Movement was based on the stoping of segregation in the South. There was segregation in bathrooms, schools, waiting rooms, and the most chaotic one, buses. During this time people took chances in wanting to be heard, they fought for their freedom, and sought
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The Civil Rights Movement was a long movement that attempted to address numerous obstacles. This movement could be described as something that was building for years. In the film, Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, we get a closer look at the process of desegregating the education system in the United States. The film encompases the struggle many students of color had to endure in order to obtain a basic public education. In Little Rock the journey to enforce integration of the schooling system
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Martin Luther King Jr. uses specific rhetorical devices to tap into the emotions of a diverse audience. Throughout his letter MLK uses several rhetorical devices to stress important points and to allow the readers empathize and understand with black people in America who were lacking the civil rights they deserved. MLK uses devices such as metaphor and symbolism to make the audience sympathize with colored people, specifically the colored people in Birmingham. This helps the reader to understand
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Stephanie L. Davis Professor Randall Gordon English Composition II 10428 22 February 2014 Equal Rights: Action or No Action In the article “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the author Martin Luther King Jr., is responding to a minister’s opposing comments to King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference organization’s actions in Birmingham, Alabama. The author reflects his point by portraying the fear of the residents of Birmingham and thus evoking the same emotion in the reader to justify
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town. Rosa left school because of a death in her family. Her first job was sewing clothes for people. She and Raymond, her husband, become active in the fight for civil right for black people. They joined in the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to help in the fight for equal right. Rosa Parks sits on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 and she sat on the bus, there were no more seats where the black people could sit. So she sat where the white people sat. Then a white
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Scottsboro Boys The Scottsboro Boys is known as a minstrel show. A minstrel show consists of comic relief, a variety of acting, dancing and music by white people in blackface or black people in blackface. This particular show consisted of black people in blackface. However, minstrel shows portray black people as dim-witted, lazy, and careless. The nine Scottsboro boys were accused in Alabama for raping two white women on a train in the 1930s. The landmark of legal cases from this incident dealt
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On April 29, 2017 at approximately 2019 hours, I responded to Advernir at Magnolia apartments located at 210 Welcome Way, Fern Park, Seminole County, in reference to criminal mischief. Upon arrival I made contact with witnesses Dana Connors, James Hargis and Dylan Morehouse, all of whom provided me with a sworn written statement. Connors, Hargis and Morehouse all stated they were swimming when they observed approximately five black males, who appeared to be teenagers playing basketball. They further
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Greensboro Four Fraternity The Greensboro Four were a group of four young men who were black and teenagers during the mid-20th century towards the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The four men were named Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond. Ezell was born on October 18th, 1941-present, he is currently 76. Frank was born on January 3rd, 1941 and died on January 9th, 2014, age 73, of respiratory
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Throughout American history there has always been racial inequality. After the abolishment of slavery in 1863 massive strides for equality of all were being taken. To gain such a change and reform for African Americans, there had to be struggles and heartbreak. One of the greatest heartbreaks of the time was the murder of 14 year old, Emmett Till. Till was staying at his cousin’s house in Mississippi when he was kidnaped and murdered. Sources say that he whistled at a white woman while at the store
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