not take the time to get to know each other outside of WTP until after the state competition. Once we did‚ we were more united and cohesive in competition as well as better friends. We liked to watch movies together that related to our unit like “Selma”‚ “13th”‚ “Lincoln” and
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years. He’s also retired from a local production plant where he worked for 11 years in Montgomery‚ AL. Mr. Baldwin is currently an entrepreneur who operates a very successful local car detail business for over 20 years now. Mr. Baldwin was born in Selma‚ Alabama in 1959. He lived with his father‚ mother‚ and five siblings. He could recall his father leaving the house and sometimes never to return for days or weeks. He‚ his siblings‚ and mother‚ would be hungry at times but no one ever knew their struggles
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Did you know that 52% of all adults arrested for homicide were black?(FBI) Crazy right? Under ⅓ of the population committing over half the murder. This is the problem not being brought to light; not police’s justified shootings. Police do not unfairly target minorities. Some say that police shootings are unjustified. While it is true that some police attack people unfairly‚ it is not fair to say that all shootings are unjustified. Police get a call and they chase after the criminal in question
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black America’s most prominent spokesperson. In 1964 King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo‚ Norway. The same year‚ Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act‚ outlawing segregation in public facilities. In 1965 King and the SCLC campaigned in Selma‚ Alabama‚ for black voting rights. The campaign led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act‚ which abolished legal impediments to voting rights for African Americans and initiated greater federal protection for blacks at the
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Nolan 1 Katelyn Nolan Mrs. Carmadelle Current Event September 7‚ 2014 American charged in husband’s Costa Rica death: Experts question case " I chose to write about an interesting current event in Costa Rica‚ an American woman‚ Ann Bender‚ was charged in the death of her husband‚ John Bender‚ on January 8‚ 2010‚ in their Costa Rican jungle compound. The couple had moved to there ten years prior to 2000. The husband‚ John Bender was 45 years old. He made millions of dollars in the stock
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struggle of life for the blacks‚ who had to be careful to not disrespect any white person. They had the fear of God in them to not break their set rules. The blacks eventually had enough and began to protest. One of their protest is the March from Selma to Montgomery. The March on Washington was one of the biggest “riots” in history. But‚ to be claimed as a riot‚ it sure was a quiet one. This protest helped the blacks get voting rights in the South. No one screamed‚ or showed out‚ Martin Luther King
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movements made it possible for blacks to use disobedience as a strategy to regain their rights. Freedom rides lit up the courage of black and white young folks and praised the leadership of Diane Nash. It also inspired the Freedom Summer Campaign and the Selma Movement as well as making it less of a hassle to vote. Schools began to integrate from just white schools to both black and white
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Furthermore‚ this lead to one of the most historical days in history‚ the speech “If I had a Dream”‚ by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ followed by an enormously crowd to Washington D.C... However‚ the movement didn’t peak until‚ March of 1965‚ which contained the Selma to Montgomery Marches. M.L.K led the march from Alabama‚ to Montgomery‚ for the registration of African-American voters. They finally achieved their goal‚ along with the awareness of the struggles the
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has been one of the most effective ways for the people to achieve desired results in the face of disagreement with the government and laws. Examples of such include Rosa Park’s refusal to move away from her seat at the front of the bus‚ marches at Selma‚ and today‚ Native Americans fighting for their sacred land at Standing Rock by camping and several acts of protest by Black Lives Matter. Resistance reminds authorities that they are not in total control‚ while
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Despite the 13th Amendment being passed in January 1865 declaring that slavery was illegal in the United States in reality it had no effect to solve racial issues as white superiority was maintained through legal loopholes. The creation of legally enforced segregated societies through the Jim Crow Laws treated Black Americans as second class citizens. Furthermore‚ the establishment of Black Codes in the Southern States were designed to keep the blacks inferior to whites economically‚ socially‚ politically
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