Greg Griego, the teenager’s father and a former gang member, worked as a pastor and volunteered with inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center. The teenager told police he shot his mother, the first victim in his rampage, because he was “frustrated” with her, Houston said. Police said that after shooting his brother and two sisters, Griego then waited five hours for his father to return from work and ambushed him with an AR-15 assault rifle - the same type of weapon used in the Newton, Connecticut, elementary school shootings. “It’s the first time I’ve been to a crime scene with so much destruction in one home,” Houston said, describing the scene as “horrific.” The dead have been identified as 51-year-old Greg Griego, his 40-year-old wife, Sarah Griego, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy and two girls, ages 5 and 2. The couple had 10 children in all, including from a former marriage.
His mother worked as domestic worker and his father was a barber, but his father left his family when DuBois was at a very young age. DuBois mother continue to raise him Great Barrington, Massachusetts with” 4,000 residents and 50 of them were African American residents leaving him with little knowledge about the African American culture.” Where he attended school with whites and had encouragement from his teachers to graduate high school. DuBois mother “passed away when he was 16 and left him penniless “while was still in high school. He got a job at the local mill and continues to complete high school. “He was the first African American to graduate from high school” because of the encouragement from his teachers (W.E.
During this huge protest James was shot 3 times at close range. (bbcnews) Paramedics rushed him to the hospital were his injuries were announced not life threatening. Contrary to the attempt this did not stop the March but simply encouraged people to keep going. Black and White people from all over the country gathered to continue the March. They slept in tents and were fed by the community.
In 1876, Washington went to live back in West Virginia and he began teaching bible school classes at African Zion Baptist church. Washington’s determination to help improve the Negro population has had tremendous impact on many. “Cast down your bucket in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions,” says Washington to the Negros (Atlanta Compromise-Washington). He proposes that the Negros should get jobs from the northerners who have factories and not enough workers. “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem,” claims Washington (Atlanta Compromise-Washington).
Malcom X Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, was a African American Muslim minister, public speaker and human rights activist. He was born on May 19th 1925 and died on February 21st 1965. He was born in Ohama in the state of Nebraska in America. He fought for the human rights for African American citizens who were not treated fairly in America. Malcolm X learned about black pride from his father when he was a child and it had influenced him for the rest of his life.
With his wife he built Hope Place, a shelter in Tennessee for unwed mothers in need. Together they also founded the Alpha & Omegas Ministry to support a community development bank in Knoxville. In addition to this work, White did missionary work with teenaged gang members, abused children, and young women looking for other options to abortion. He also tithed a large portion of his NFL income to several Baptist churches. He is quoted and saying “I am trying to build up black people’s morale, self-confidence and self-reliance to show them that the Jesus I’m talking about is real”.
His strong beliefs in god made him a person that wanted to apply his knowledge to created solutions and endings to this world of hates between black and white communities in the United States. After he finished college he became a pastor full of passion to fight with courage against the injustice. He created a six point keys that became his Philosophy that helped to encourage everyone to defend their civil rights. The first point talked about nonviolence and manipulation of making believe the other person that he is the one that is in the wrong side, with love and patience this point became very important. Secondly, was formed after Rosa Parks refused to give her sit to a white man giving segregation to Alabama.
Neighbors reported that at some time before commiting the crimes that placed him on the Most Wanted list, Diggs began drinking and he was heard to be arguing with his wife. A newspaper of account of time tells the story like this: At 7 o'clock on the morning of May 26, 1949, James Eddie Diggs shot and killed his wife, Ruth, and their two sons James Jr., 6, and Alfonso, 4, at their home in Norfolk, Va. There were no signs of a struggle and police have been unable to establish a clear motive. However, shortly before the triple killing Diggs began to drink to excess and to seek the company of women. The whereabouts of Diggs were unknown for nearly a week after the slayings, but on May 31, 1949 he was identified as the man who, when the auto in which he was riding was halted at Hamlet, N. C., drew a revolver and critically wounded officer Rex Howell.
Bianca Dankwah-mintah Religion of the world May-22-2012 Questions from the reflections after Waco According, to article David Koresh and The Branch Davidians were home and the ATF stormed into their home and required a search warrant on the suspicion of that the group was stockpiling weapons. The people that died were government officials 4 of them were wounded. Also, in the Branch Davidians home 100 men, women and children died. The government should have never done a horrible mistake. David Koresh was considered a prophet because he had false predications about apocalypse engineered by God and the millennia.
Patrick Ireland was shot twice in the head and once in the foot during the carnage in the Columbine High School library. When the killers left the library, his surviving classmates tried to get him to come with them, but had to give up and fled without him. Over several hours, Patrick, with one side paralyzed, with his right foot shattered and useless, with a shotgun pellet eight inches into his brain, and with even his survival in doubt, crawled to the second-floor window. Then, with the world watching, he dropped out of it, into the arms of SWAT team officers. His recovery was arduous amazing, and it is a story of determination, support from around the world from people both famous and otherwise, triumph, and success in his adult life.