1. rosa parks
King and the other African-American community leaders held another meeting to organize future action. ... King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. ... King arrived home he found an angry mob waiting. ... King told the crowd to go home. ... Finally, most recently in August 1994, Parks was attacked in her home by a young man who wanted money from her. ...
This case, brought forward when Homer Plessy was refused the right to sit in a railroad car reserved for whites only, was struck down by the U.S. ... King held many protests, one involving segregated of elevators at the Fulton County Courthouse. ... He also held a march from Selma, Alabama, to the steps of the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama. ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ... The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scott's home in Marion, Alabama. ... King's funeral services were held on April 9, 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church and on the campus of Morehouse College, with the President of the United State proclaiming a day of mourning and flags being flown at half-staff. ... I think it's nave to assume these institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (Kin...
By the end of the 19th century the term Jim Crow began to be applied to laws and customs, which effectively oppressed and disenfranchised Southern blacks. The racial class system overwhelmed Blacks with the harsh realities of stereotyping and the segregation of daily life in the Jim Crow South. Howe...
Now, hostile whites, who did not know how to treat blacks as equal human beings, surrounded, and still held authority over, freed African Americans in the South. ... The boy was physically taken from his uncle's home, and three days later his lifeless body was found brutally beaten in the Tallahachie River. ...
One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...
To keep Blacks from registering to vote, poll taxes were raised, comprehension tests were held and the grandfather-clause was put into practice. ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... Although many Blacks were arrested or violently harassed and King's home was dynamited, the boycott was successful after one year and a few weeks. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious ...
A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by a free person. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ...
The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts re...
"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus coming...
"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...