Wells was motivated to become a civil rights activist after she had bought a first-class train ticket to Nashville. On the train the crew members forcibly removed Ida from the train after she refused to mover to the African American train car. After this incident Ida sued and won a $500 settlement against the railroad. Ida wrote about the issues of race and politics in the South after the Tennessee Supreme Court overruled the settlement. Then in 1892 Ida wrote articles denouncing lynching and wrongful deaths of the African Americans, this was the start of her anti-lynching campaign.
By discontinuing her medication Debbie put herself at risk of experiencing violent and delusionary episodes, which result in attacks on her neighbors. A week after discontinuing her medication Debbie had an un-provoked interaction with Mark, which resulted in her stating “I know your out to get me and I am going to get you first”. Two days after the first encounter Debbie noticed Mark outside again and rode her bicycle directly toward Mark and at the last second turned away causing Mark to dive out of the way striking his head against the curb suffering a concussion and other facial injuries. In the first encounter Debbie attacked verbally and also gestured threateningly. A threatening gesture in itself can be considered an assault due to the volitional movement of any part of the body.
Jarena Lee was likely one of the first African American female preachers in America. Born in February 1783 to free but poor black parents, she was sent to work as a live-in servant at the age of 7. After hearing a sermon by Richard Allen, the
Brown versus Board Of Education In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Linda Brown who was denied admission to her local Elementary school because she was black. Linda Brown, an African American third grader, who lived in Topeka Kansas, had to walk one mile, through a railroad switch yard to get to her black school. Her father tried to get her into a white school, which was only seven blocks away, but the principle of the school refused to allow her to enroll.
In order for her to get to school she had to walk. (Rosa Parks Bus, TheHenryFord.org) This was because the elementary schools bus system would not pick up the little black children, because they were not to be with the whites on the bus. As Rosa began to get older, she was then experiencing types of racism and segregation between the whites and the blacks. (Rosa Parks Bus, TheHenryFord.org) Due to her mother and grandmothers illness Rosa was needed at home, so she had to drop out of school. When Rosa was nine-teen she met Mr. Raymond Parks, who later became her husband in 1932.
Martin Luther King gave many speeches about racism and how people should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but on the basis of their character. Days later after he presented some of his speeches, his relatives’ houses were lit on fire and were completely destroyed by rebellions. His relatives begged him to stop but he did not listen but continued and kept persevering. Since Louis Riel had given the Provisional Government permission to arrest and kill Thomas Scott, he was labelled as a criminal and was issued a warrant
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), an African American teacher, was one of the great educators of the United States. Ruby Radford states “She rose from poverty to become one of the nation’s most distinguished African American leaders and the most prominent black woman of her time” (Radford, 1951). Her life encompassed three different careers: as an educator, she was the central figure in the creation of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida; as founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women, she was a leading force in developing the black women’s organization movement; and in the political realm, she was one of the few blacks to hold influential positions in the federal bureaucracy during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Mary McLeod Bethune was a leader of women, and a powerful champion of racial equality. In Ruby Radford’s book, Mary McLeod Bethune, Radford points out “Favoring conciliation over confrontation in her struggle for black equality in an era of segregation, Bethune has been compared to Booker T. Washington.
My leader is Madam CJ Walker. Madam CJ Walker was born Dec 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. She passed away May 25, 1919 in New York, New York. She lived to accomplish a lot of great things. She created her own hair products for black women.
Ebony Johnson Gridley Instructor Laura Govia 30 January 2012 Ball of Birmingham Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is about an African American girl who dies in a bombing in 1963 in the state of Alabama. Segregation between African Americans and Whites was very violent and dangerous. The ballad is about a child asking her mother for permission to march in the streets of Birmingham to make their country free (line 11-12). She told her child not to march and to go to church where her and her friends would be safe from all the violence in the country. Her mother had to keep her family out of the dangers of active political protests like the Freedom March or she would lose her job and her freedom to continue to be in the white community.
Really.” There was an uncomfortable silence, I didn’t sound sincere enough and she didn’t know what to answer. “You know, it’s too late to do anything.” The woman whispered, as if she had no wind left in her, she sounded weak and broken down. “Why are you up here, let’s just talk.” I took out a cigarette and lit it, without placing it in my mouth. “What’s your name?” The woman, as if she could no longer hold up her own weight, sat down on the ledge of the building, legs hanging off the edge. “Maggie.” I traipsed up toward her, keeping my eyes on my feet.