affected more than several different races and probably struck African Americans the most. Much violence took place throughout African American struggles‚ and was probably at its highest point during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963‚ Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ when four girls were killed from a bomb‚ it wasn’t an uncommon event. Not only did this bomb murder four young girls‚ it also added to the continued racial relations in the South. Even though the bombing wasn’t positive‚ it led to the social and
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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama February 4‚ 1913. She was an African American Civil Rights activist. She was also well known as “the first lady of Civil Rights‚” and “mother of the freedom movement” (Rosa parks biography‚ 2013). She is a well-known and respected as a woman‚ because of her inspirational‚ yet defensive action. Parks is famous for her refusal to obey the bus driver who demanded that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was charged with violation
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States” (Achievement‚ 2010). Rosa Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley and Leona McCauley. After her younger brother was born in 1915 they moved to Pine Level‚ Rosa was put into a rural school and at the age of 11 Rosa finished her education. Afterwards Rosa’s mother registered her into a private school for girls once Rosa completed that she went to Alabama State Teacher’s College High School. Unfortunately‚ Rosa couldn’t finish her Teacher’s
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and exemplified those skills by leading multiple demonstrations. Ralph Abernathy was born on March 11‚ 1926‚ in Linden‚ Alabama. He was born into a time of social inequality and race segregation. Abernathy served in the United States Army during WWII and served as a platoon Sergeant‚ leading his own group of soldiers. After being discharged from the Army‚ he enrolled at Alabama State University (ASU). While attending ASU he began to notice how the university was segregated. He gained fame when he
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the Civil Rights Movement under the dynamic leadership of Martin Luther King‚ was aiming to gain political power through voting rights. * Black people in the South were prevented from voting. * Dr King decided to focus on the town of Selma‚ Alabama‚ where a racist sheriff was blocking a campaign for voter registration - you have to be registered to vote so that you can be given the voting slip (piece of paper) that you would use to give your vote. * In 1964 only 1% of the black population
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unethical scandal of one of Birmingham’s most influential figures and corporation. Scrushy‚ once a high school dropout‚ worked as a gas station attendant and a bricklayer before retuning to school and earning his diploma. He studied at University of Alabama‚ Birmingham and graduated with a degree in respiration therapy in 1974. After graduation he became an instructor at UAB. In 1979‚ Scrushy left the acadadimic workforce and took up a position at a Texas health care management firm. The firm was sold
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study In 1932‚ there was a study that was given in Macon County‚ Alabama by the health department. The study was given to underprivileged African American men who were informed that they have bad blood disease. The health department offered these men health care without being charged to treat their rare blood disorder because by this time this blood disorder was a plague in their county. This study went on for over 40 years by Macon County health department. The health
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who had many positive effects was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks influenced the Montgomery Boycott that eventually led to the lifting of segregated seating laws for public transportation. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. She attended local schools until the age of eleven where she then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Years later she ceased to attend school in order to take care of her grandmother and then her mother. In 1932 she married a
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helped get rid of segregation and discrimination among white and colored people. During the 1950s‚ King led several demonstrations like sit-ins‚ marches and protests. King became famous for supporting a program to integrate buses in Montgomery‚ Alabama (Jacobus 211). It became the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ where hundreds of African Americans refused to ride city buses‚ to protest segregating seating. Throughout the Bus Boycott‚ homes and restaurants were getting bombed. King’s home was bombed and
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama on June 27‚ 1880 and died on June 1‚ 1968. When Helen was nineteen months old‚ she was stricken with a damaging brain fever that left her blind and deaf. There was no way she could be educated until she was seven years old‚ when a teacher named Annie Mansfield Sullivan came to teach her to read the Braille system and to write with a specially constructed typewriter. Annie was almost blind herself from a fever
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