Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born Feb.4th‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her parents are Leona McCauley and James McCauley and she only had one brother name Sylvester. Rosa parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley she was in African American civil rights activist‚ whom the U.S. congress called ‘the first lady of civil rights and” “the mother of the free movement”. Rosa Parks went to Highland Research and Education Center and Alabama State University. Rosa Parks’s childhood brought her early experiences
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Holly Holland English I First Period December 3‚ 2009 Annotated Bibliography Handschuh‚ Judith. “Harper Lee.” Teen Reads. 2003. Carol Fitzgerald. 2 December 2009. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28‚ 1926 in Monroeville Alabama. Lee was the youngest of four children born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She studied law at Huntington College in 1944 to 1945‚ following in her father’s footsteps with her career choice. She then studied a year at Oxford University‚ followed by working
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Civil Rights Activist‚ known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955‚ the same date of her trial for the crime of not giving up her seat on the bus for a White boy because she said‚ “I’m not moving; my feet hurt”‚ which at that time in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ segregation on public bus transportation was law‚ and Blacks had to give up their seats to Whites if there were none for them. I feel Rosa Louise (McCauley) Parks was definitely in Stage 5 of the Internalization-Commitment within the Nigrescence
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fictional town in Alabama very similar to Monroe County where Harper Lee was raised. Both Scout and Lee were advanced students for their ages‚ learning to read and write before the other students in their classes. Born in 1926‚ Lee is only slightly older than Scout‚ the character with so many similarities to the author. Lee grew up in Monroeville‚ Alabama--a small‚ Southern Alabama town so like the fictitious Maycomb. Her father‚ Amasa Lee‚ was a lawyer and a member of the Alabama legislature during
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(Reynolds‚ Brain) At the age of two she moved to her grandparents’ farm in Pine Level‚ Alabama with her mother and younger brother‚ Syvester.(Reynolds‚ Brain) When she is at age eleven she’s enrolled on the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls ( Miss White’s School for Girls) a private institution.(Parks‚ Rosa; Steele Elaine‚ and Reynolds‚ Brain) After finishing Miss White’s School for Girls‚ she went to Alabama State Teacher’s College High School.(Parks‚ Rosa and Steele Elaine) She was unable to
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Fred Shuttlesworth played a big role in making America more equal today. Fred Shuttlesworth was born on March 18‚ 1922 in Mount Meigs‚ Alabama. Shuttlesworth will always be remembered for leading nonviolent protests. Reverend Shuttlesworth is a hero who peacefully ended segregation as we know it in one of the most racist cities in the United States. The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights is an organization formed by 1‚000 African American men in Alford’s Sordis Baptist Church in 1956.
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Harper Lee’s influence on Scout Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville‚ Alabama where girls were expected to be ladies‚ Harper Lee was just the opposite‚ a tomboy‚ and she wrote her famous novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” based upon her childhood experiences. Harper Lee made her main character Scout to be very similar to her. Harper Lee created the town of Maycomb with features almost exactly like Monroeville. Harper Lee based Scout’s father Atticus after her own father Amasa Coleman Lee. Harper Lee
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Kohl’s book entitled “She would not be moved” as well as a Washington Post article called “Alabama teacher laid groundwork for civil rights activism.” (Transition: Just last week‚ America lost a brave woman whose impact began the civil rights movements. Yet her story began in Tuskegee‚ Alabama.) Body: I. Life before the bus boycott A. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee‚ Alabama in 1913 B. Parks said‚ “ Back then we didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a
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Pub. Date: 1960 Genre: Fiction Setting: Maycomb County‚ Alabama 1930’s Pint of View: First person Plot Summary: The story is about two children‚ Scout and Jem Finch‚ and their father Atticus‚ a lawyer‚ as they live through three tough summers. They reside in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ a town that discriminates people based on what they look like and/or what their social status is. The children face many difficult situations where they have to decide what is right or wrong (Main situation
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Ethics Tanya Beeler Steve Roussas - RES/351 September 5‚ 2012 Abstract The Tuskegee syphilis study was an unethical research study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 on a poor African American community in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. There were 600 men involved including 301 men that had already contracted syphilis and 299 men that had not. The ramifications of the unethical research that was conducted on these men affected their spouses‚ children and the African American community
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