Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was placed on suspension for refusing to remove the 5300-pound Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building in August 2003. The controversy over the monument stems from a lawsuit filed in October 2001 by three organizations on behalf of three Alabama lawyers who often had business at the judicial building and said the monument offended them. ... It was placed there as part of our history. ... It is part of our nation's history. ...

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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was placed on suspension for refusing to remove the 5300-pound Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building in August 2003. The controversy over the monument stems from a lawsuit filed in October 2001 by three organizations on behalf of three Alabama lawyers who often had business at the judicial building and said the monument offended them. ... It was placed there as part of our history. ... It is part of our nation's history. ...

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Although Urban Country came, went, and quickly became a forgettable chapter in country music history, the artists of this genre are not as forgotten. ... Alabama The band Alabama was formed in 1969 at Fort Payne, Alabama. ... - In 1977, Wild Country changed its name to Alabama and signed a contract with GRT Records... This self produced album helped Alabama gain national attention with a Top 20 hit - "My Home's In Alabama" - "I Wanna Come Over - After gaining national attention, Alabama signed a record deal with RCA in 1980. ... In 1968, she released her most famous ...

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Whether you"re from the slow moving, speech slurring South or from the bustling and hustling North, one always takes pride in his history and what it means to him. When this history is thrown to the ground and trampled upon by an angry mob, it is only natural for some to become angry and fight for there history. ... Probably not, but when you look at the example he led and the words so reverently pinned while sitting in an Alabama jail cell, one must wonder why violence was used to kill such a passive human being. ... The same race of people that imprisoned him there in Alabama, he call...

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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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After the Birmingham, Alabama newspaper published "The Public Statement," by Eight Alabama Clergymen " calling Martin Luther King's activities "unwise and untimely, " King wrote a response back from jail arguing each point the clergymen had made. ... He is telling them not only that he was invited to Alabama, but also that the laws are unjust and he has to do or say something about it. He wanted to persuade people that there were not justice in Alabama. ... He was responding to the Alabama clergy whom king was against in Birmingham. ... He is a clergyman speaking to other clergymen, but a...

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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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Coretta, who was born in Marion, Alabama, had also ventured far from home. ... He was invited to preach at his father's church but declined and then accepted an offer at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery, Alabama. ... The bus boycott was a protest from the black population in Alabama that led to the removal of segregation on public buses. ... Birmingham, Alabama was one of the most severely segregated cities in the 1960s. ... Martin Luther King is probably the most influential, admirable, and courageous person in all of black history. ...

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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL For many years, people have been listening to rock and roll music, and not knowing where it originated from. ... An Alabama White Citizens' Council Member was once quoted saying "We've set up a 20-man committee to do away with this vulgar, animalistic, nigger rock and roll bop." ... One cannot write a report on the history of Rock and Roll without writing about the show totally devoted to Rock and Roll. ... The girl group time represents an important part of the early days of rock and roll as well as the history of women in well known music. ...

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To better understand race and sports, one must first look at the history of race and sports, key figures of race and sports, and currents issues that deal with race and sports. ... Recently, the University of Alabama needed to fill a vacant coaching position. Alabama interviewed an African-American by the name of Sylvester Croom. The argument against Alabama was that it conducted the interview only as a formality and not as a serious interview. ...

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King established Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and actively joined National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the Alabama Council on Human Relations. ... In December 1956, the United States of America Supreme Court proclaimed that Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. ... King and staff organized a major rally campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Kennedy reacting to the rallies and the attitude of Alabama Governor George Wallace submitted the Civil Rights Act (it would be passed in 1964) to Congress. ... He devoted himself to the religio...

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Also, during his run for governor of Alabama Wallace's main slogan was "Stand Up For Alabama," this would later be changed during his campaign for president to "Stand Up For America." ... First, this would be one of the closest elections of all history and would point out the flaws with the Electoral College. ...

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History is an endless time of wars and peace, at times feels like there is too much of one and not an enough of the other. ... In recent history a examples, such as World War II with the world standing up to the tyranny and debauchery that was Adolf Hitler's Nazi German. ... Jefferson Davis made some huge mistakes during the war, one of the biggest was that he moved the capital of the Confederacy from the relatively safe location in Montgomery Alabama to Virginia after they joined the war. ... Being so close to the Union made it a easy target and made so that they had to expend extra reso...

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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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Pittsburgh 1906 Playground Association of America founded 1906 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) formed 1907 Boy Scout Movement founded for promotion of physical recreation 1911 Michigan passes mandatory physical education law 1913 Idaho passes mandatory physical education law 1915-18 Eight states pass physical education legislation requiring some sort of physical training in the schools - Illinois, New York, California, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland 1919-25 More states come to the forefront in passing physical education legislation requir...

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Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most important event in American History. The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the most controversial periods in American history. ... In 1851 an Alabama newspaper declared that "financially the South was more enslaved than their Negroes" and continued by explaining this theory. ... Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana soon followed South Carolina in secession. ...

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This is a moment in history that changed the direction of America," commented Gary Pettway of Sweetwater, TN, who is also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. ... He originally intended to tell the story of his introduction to King in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957, but he instead revisited the events in King's life that inspired his "Mountain of Despair" and "Stone of Hope" speeches. ...

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She was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. ... By the age of 15, she left her segregated school in Alabama for the Elizabeth Irwin School in New York City. ... With this notoriety she was able to start teaching again as she was hired to teach a class over the "history of consciousness " at the University of California at Santa Cruz. ...

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Similar events occurred on September 30, 1962 at the University of Mississippi and in 1963 at the University of Alabama under President Kennedy's administration. ... It started on December 1st 1955 with Rosa Parks, a member of the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP. ...

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Place This setting of this story is in Maycomb, Alabama, because in the first chapter, it talks about how Scout's great grandfather moved to Maycomb, and it also talks about their current life in Maycomb. ... Significant Events The story starts off with Scout telling us her life and family history. ... Unsullied: adjective; not spoiled or made impure; "Atticus' office contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of Alabama....

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On Thursday, December 8, the fourth day of the boycott MIA officials and officials and lawyers for the bus company, along with city commissioners to present their reasonable desegregation plan similar to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. ... The SCLC was influential in the civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963. ...

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He worked on Freedom Days in Albany, Georgia, Selma, Alabama, Greenwood and Hattiesburg, Mississippi in an attempt to register black voters and witness the ignorance of the United States government. He marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on a quest for freedom. ... He was apart of history, and he new it. ...

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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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