Throughout history the Mississippi river has been notorious as being one of the most powerful and iconic river systems in the United States as it stretches from its initial source in Lake Itasca‚ MN‚ all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico‚ carving and cutting paths both old and new as well as periodically wreaking havoc along the way. Since the dawn of mankind it has been traditional that early civilizations migrate towards bodies of water and begin settlement as rivers‚ lakes‚ and streams can provide
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majority of African Americans were located. Train and bus transportation as well as education were affected by segregation. During the Civil Rights Movement‚ three Supreme Court decisions were made which had a large impact: Plessy Vs. Ferguson‚ Brown Vs. Board of Education‚ and Swann Vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson was a notable decision by the Supreme Court requiring racial segregation in public facilities. Passengers on Jim Crow carriage cars
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Event | When and where did it happen? | Who was involved?Actions taken?Strategy? | What were the key events? Was it legal? | What was achieved? Implications? | Emmett Till | | | | | GreensBoro Sit Ins | February 1st 1960 | Lots of students‚ Ezell Blair‚ SNCC‚ White protestors. 4 black teenagers refuse to not be served at lunch counter and sit there all day causing massive civil right movement. | Key Events: * Ezell Blair and 3 friends request to be served at white lunch counter but get
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One Mississippi. I was upside down and feared for my life. Two Mississippi. A surge of courage ran through me. Three Mississippi. In awe‚ I discovered a newfound trust. I began to stir; as the beautiful January morning sunlight acted as alarm clock for me‚ I came to a shocking realization. Earlier in the week‚ I had reluctantly accepted my brother’s idea of competing in a snowboarding contest. It would be my first time‚ and the thought competing in front of a large crowd petrified me as I could only
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activists came together to challenge racial segregation legally and politically. Oliver Brown‚ an African American‚ wanted to put his daughter‚ Linda‚ into a white school because it was much closer than her all black school. He and twelve other parents tried to put their children in the school‚ but were denied by the principal. In 1951‚ the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) helped Brown and the other parents file a lawsuit against the school. Segregation was supposed to
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Mississippi rag is a piano piece we can link to ragtime‚ a variation on jazz which appeared in the very early 1900s. Mississippi rag was published by a white man named William Krell‚ however the first ragtime piano piece to be published by an African American was Harlem rag‚ composed by Tom Turpin. Many other popular
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Should the interpretation of law be strict or loose? Law can be understood differently by a different variety of people who apply if different whether it’s strictly‚ loosely and everything in between. I believe that the interpretation of law shouldn’t be really strict‚ but shouldn’t be very loose at the same time. I believe that the interpretation of law should be in the middle of strict and loose. If the interpretation of law is loose‚ then people will just go around it and find their way out
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court cases the black defendants rights were unequal to the white defendants for many years. Many cases against African Americans were not justifiable. In 1955‚ Emmett Till‚ a young teenager the age of 14‚ African American‚ was visiting family in Mississippi one year. One day Emmett and relatives with school friends roam to a grocery store. A casual walk that ended Emmett’s life because a story started going around town that he had whistled at local resident Carolyn Bryant a 21-year old white woman
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case in 1954 that put segregation on trial‚ Brown argued that separate schools for whites and blacks were inherently unequal because of the psychological damage they impose on black students. The psychological damage that African American students could endure from segregated schools is due to the feeling of being inferior to other races‚ thus lowering their self esteem and motivation to learn. On May 17th‚ the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Brown‚ stating that separate schools violated
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everyday regarding segregation and racism. To emphasize‚ some disagreements had to be settled by the Supreme Court‚ and the ruling made still have a lasting effect today. The Supreme Court has made many ruling effecting civil rights: Plessy vs. Ferguson‚ Brown vs. Board of Education‚ and Loving vs. Virginia. In Plessy vs. Ferguson‚ the Court’s judgment was to uphold a Louisiana law regarding businesses serving African Americans separately. To clarify‚ this ruling states that it was ok for the segregation
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