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    The Tenacity of Zeta Delta Chapter During the Spring of 2016 on the campus of Concordia College Alabama‚ a group of female educators formed an interest group to determine the feasibility of chartering a chapter of the National Sorority Phi Delta Kappa‚ Incorporated. The excitement was high and the commitment was strong. Through family emergencies and professional obligations‚ 22 successful and dedicated female educators met‚ studied‚ laughed‚ and learned together. Through the strength‚ the determination

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    Rosa Parks is considered the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She took part in the Montgomery bus boycott a mass protest against the Montgomery bus system in Alabama. In 1956‚ the Supreme Court declared that the segregation in buses were unconstitutional. The event related to Rosa Parks took place on December 1st‚ 1955‚ when she refused to give

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    On the Montgomery city buses‚ the front ten seats were reserved for whites only‚ when a white man walks in and the “white only” seats are filled‚ the driver asked Parks and three other African-American ladies to move for this man. When she was the only one noncompliant‚ the police were called and Parks was arrested for violating chapter six section ten and eleven of the Montgomery City code (The Arrest of Rosa Parks). Sections ten states that

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    edited the theory with Barbara M. Montgomery. It is an interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions‚ struggles‚ and interaction between opposing tendencies (Baxter and Montgomery‚ 1998). Baxter and Montgomery elaborated on Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea that life is an open monologue and that individuals experience discourse between opposing desires and needs within relational communications (Baxter and Montgomery‚ 1998). According to Baxter (1998)

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    The writer‚ Lucy Montgomery‚ has an impressive sense of humor and her way with words is exceptionally awesome; after reading about Montgomery’s life I think that Anne represented her in fantasy world‚ the reason why I think that is because she has a lot of similarities with Anne I mean like they both were orphan and like Anne‚ Montgomery was particular about the spelling of name‚ and both of them loved green gables (which is Prince Edward Island in real life.) In the book the author has used a third

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    Nowhere does it say that Rosa Parks can not sit on that bus. The Montgomery Code required all public transportation was segregated (Kishel‚ 2006). The city claimed that the bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code (Kishel‚ 2006). While driving the bus‚ drivers were required to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. This was completed

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    Civil Rights. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was a black African American woman who was a civil rights activist. Rosa Parks was the “first lady of civil rights” she made a name for herself in history on the first of December 1955 while riding on the Montgomery Alabama bus. Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger who had no where to sit as the bus as it was full. Even though Rosa was sitting in the right colour section. On this day when Rosa refused to obey the Jim Crow Laws of segregation

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    terrorism. Klan members would parade up and down the streets in front of Rosa’s home. They never attacked her family‚ but she felt the violence of white supremacy at a very young age (Brinkley 25). Rosa moved to Montgomery‚ Alabama at the age of eleven and her mom enrolled her at Montgomery Industrial school for girls. All of the teachers at this school were white‚ while the student body of two hundred and thirty to three hundred were entirely black. However she dropped out of school at the age of

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    consisted of segregated schools in Montgomery‚ Alabama that included the city’s Industrial School for Girls run by Alice L. White‚ a white abolitionist teacher‚ who started to give black girls a chance at education. Parks attended an all black junior high school called Booker T. Washington Junior High

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    started standing up for themselves by challenging the segregation system. The Montgomery bus boycott was the first step; sparked by the arrest

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