From November 6th to December 14th in the early 60's, he hitchhiked, walked, and rode through Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia. ... Universal Insight: In Montgomery, Alabama, Griffin decided it was time for him to reenter white society, but he also wanted to gain information of the area as a black man. ... This book relates to American history because it takes the reader into the Deep South before the Civil Rights Movements took hold and shows what it was like to be black in the early 1960's. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She insists that her son Julian, a quasi-intellectual, educated at "only a third-rate college", hypocritically consumed with disdain for his mother's racial bigotry, escort her to the Y on the recently integrated city bus after the Supreme Court ruling in December of 1956 to desegregate the buses of Montgomery, Alabama (Alabama Department of Archives and History 1). ...

• Word Count: 806
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet, there are all black universities - Delaware State University, Alabama State University, and Albany State University, GA, just to name a few. ... There's black history month, but what if there were white history month? ...

• Word Count: 566
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1960's, the governor of Alabama, George Wallace, was a militant supporter of segregation. In 1963 two blacks, Vivian Jones and James Hood, sought admission to the traditionally segregated University of Alabama. ... He refused to move, so the national guard was called in to restore order and admit Jones and Hood to the University of Alabama. ... Probably one of the biggest school riots in history was at the University of Massachusetts on October 27, 1986. ... In 1994, a principal from an Alabama high school opposed interracial couples' attending his school's prom. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Gun control in the United States has its history. ... In 1893 and 1907, respectively, Alabama and Texas passed extremely heavy taxes on the sale of such weapons to put handguns out of the reach of the blacks and poor whites. ...

• Word Count: 805
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• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Tuesday, January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, to the proud parents Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. On June 18, 1953, Martin Luther King, Jr. married his wife Coretta Scott at her home in Marion, Alabama. Together they had four children t...

• Word Count: 795
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• Grade Level: High School

"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. ... Jo Ann Robinson was a well educated professor at Alabama State College where she taught English from 1949 until she resigned, because of increasing political pressure by a special state committee, in 1960. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Although he never saw a presidency, King, Jr. did lead one of the strongest movements in American history which helped shape today's society. ... Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of department-store facilities. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Realities After Reconstruction African Americans living in the southern United States after Reconstruction encountered extreme hardships in everyday life. Race relations between black and white Americans during this time period were highly strained. Segregation started to take place, violent a...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School

While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ... After they finished their studies, the couple went to Montgomery, Alabama, where Martin became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, which belonged to an educated black middle-class community. ... Like his father he became a "social activist pastor" joining the NAACP and the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. ... This paper will serve as a bridge between the two main arguments in the respective books and compare and contrast the lessons found within their text to the ideology of some of the most affluent civil ...

• Word Count: 6384
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