She moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and brother as a young girl, to live with her grandparents. ... Washington High School in 1928.She attended Alabama State College for a brief time after graduating high school. ... She is truly one of the most prominent figures in American history for her contributions to this society. ... This method has been proven effective throughout history, and proved effective during this time in the civil rights movement. ... In conclusion, Rosa Park's simple act of protest sparked a movement that inspired many, and cha...

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Black History What are your schools teaching during Black-History month? You may be surprised to learn that many schools have not taken Black-History as a challenge to explore different ideas, people, and aspects of history. ... In those years he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the world by surprise. ... Perhaps one of the best examples of past history would be Malcolm Little born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. ... The four people cited above played a very important role in American history. ...

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What are your schools teaching during Black-History month? You may be surprised to learn that many schools have not taken Black-History as a challenge to explore different ideas, people, and aspects of history. ... In those years he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the world by surprise. ... Perhaps one of the best examples of past history would be Malcolm Little born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. ... The four people cited above played a very important role in American history. ...

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Parks mother worked as a school teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Rosa her mother and her brother then moved to live with her grandparents on a farm in Pinelevel, which lay between Tuskegee and Montgomery, Alabama. ... He was a barber from Wedowee County, Alabama. ... In 1934 she received her diploma from Alabama State College. ... In closing Rosa says that February, Black History Month, seemed a relevant time to evaluate youth and their sense of history. ...

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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to James and Leona McCauley. ... After Junior High School she attended the Laboratory School at Alabama State Teachers College for Negros, later to become Alabama State University (Greenhaw, 2007). ... In December of 1955 at forty-two years old, Rosa Parks made history and created the protest that progressed the civil rights movement. On a very cold December day, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama after a long day of work in a textile factory. ... Rosa Parks was a knowledgeable devoted National Association for the Advanc...

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Actions that may have happened in history, give historical documents a reason to be. ... Throughout American history, it is clear that many individuals have fought for justice in a society that has often denied it. ... Martin Luther King Jr., whose main philosophy on civil disobedience revolved around nonviolence, wrote a "Letter From Birmingham Jail" to eight clergymen informing them of the situation in Birmingham, Alabama, in April of 1963. ... The fact that he was prison showed the men that a fellow clergyman did in fact need help in Birmingham, Alabama. ...

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Actions that may have happened in history, give historical documents a reason to be. ... Throughout American history, it is clear that many individuals have fought for justice in a society that has often denied it. ... Martin Luther King Jr., whose main philosophy on civil disobedience revolved around nonviolence, wrote a "Letter From Birmingham Jail" to eight clergymen informing them of the situation in Birmingham, Alabama, in April of 1963. ... The fact that he was prison showed the men that a fellow clergyman did in fact need help in Birmingham, Alabama. ...

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., who eventually had a huge influence in the African American history. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... In 1934 she received her diploma from Alabama State College. ... This was the year in which Rosa Parks would stand out in history. ... By "sitting down" for what she believed in, and refusing to give up her bus seat, Rosa Parks made history. ...

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This was the common lifestyle in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. ... King stated in 1957, at his parish in Montgomery, Alabama: History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressor. ... Using this outline of love and non-violence, which is a modification and combination of Jesus and Gandhi's beliefs, King assembled a group to contest the laws in Birmingham, Alabama. ... In time the Governor of Alabama, George Wallace became frustrated that there was no news coming from Alabama's largest city. ... "These men were among the most prominent religious leaders in ...

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Rosa Parks On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man. ... Inconclusion, the results of civil disobedience throughout history have been tremendously successful. ... Henry David Thoreau and Rosa Parks left their marks in history by using acts of nonviolence and civil disobedience fighting the racial issues they faced....

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Renegades The song Renegades of Funk by Rage against the Machine is about people, who have altered the course of history by changing the system. ... King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. ... King was arrested in Selma Alabama, for protesting X went there to help the voting movement (Cone). ...

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The song Renegades of Funk by Rage against the Machine is about people, who have altered the course of history by changing the system. ... King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. ... King was arrested in Selma Alabama, for protesting X went there to help the voting movement (Cone). ...

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The next year, he was in Montgomery, Alabama, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church became a priest. ... December 1956, the US Supreme Court declared Alabama's law unconstitutional racial segregation, apartheid regulations on Montgomery buses were also abolished. ... Grow April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader in Birmingham, Alabama led the massive public demonstrations. ... Previously, only Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt and several other president in US history, the famous monumental statue standing here, Martin Luther King, Jr. w...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 13) Martin Luther King outlines the conditions of Black America in the early 1960's, the steps they were taking to change their condition, and goes into detail the conditions that existed specifically in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Birmingham's youth faced fire hoses, police dogs, and angry mobs to gain freedom in Alabama, "the city of Birmingham discovered a conscience." ...

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Why We Can't Wait History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 13) Martin Luther King outlines the conditions of Black America in the early 1960's, the steps they were taking to change their condition, and goes into detail the conditions that existed specifically in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Birmingham's youth faced fire hoses, police dogs, and angry mobs to gain freedom in Alabama, "the city of Birmingham discovered a conscience." ...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 13) Martin Luther King outlines the conditions of Black America in the early 1960's, the steps they were taking to change their condition, and goes into detail the conditions that existed specifically in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Birmingham's youth faced fire hoses, police dogs, and angry mobs to gain freedom in Alabama, "the city of Birmingham discovered a conscience." ...

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Introduction  In the 1950's and 1960's the Civil Rights Movement was a popular movement to end segregation amongst blacks and whites and for the black population to earn equal rights. During that era black lives really did not matter and they felt as if they did not belong. Blacks were tired of bei...

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In The Racial Ring The 1960's represent a turbulent time in American history. ... In an effort to convey their message clearly, King submitted a manifesto to eight clergymen in Alabama concerning race relations in the deep south while Malcolm X decided on giving a speech regarding the plight of the African American to a group of white liberals. ... King explains that Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to take down the signs and that he would stop his demonstrations, but he soon "realized that [they] were the victims of a...

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