ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH Sharon Young Siena Height University LAS 301 Although, often looked over Asa Philip Randolph achieved extraordinary feats for the plight of the African American during his lifetime. Early involvement in the Socialist Party set the pace for his radical monthly magazine, the Messenger. With some experience with labor unions in New York, his first immense effort was the organization of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In 1941 he and two other colleagues suggested the March on Washington, to protest racial discrimination and the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces; typical of this time era the march was cancelled by President Roosevelt. In a time when African Americans had few piercing voices in the “sea of racial injustice, Asa Philip Randolph made huge waves socially and politically Introduction Asa Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida on April 15, 1889 to Elizabeth Robinson Randolph and James William Randolph.
Gautreaux Vs Cha was a lawsuit that was made for public housing segregation. It was filed by Dorothy Gautreaux in 1969 through federal court and the case went on although she was dead. “The Chicago Housing Authority and HUD had violated the US constitution which states that everyone is equal.” The purpose was to develop a law that would help all race, the riches and the poor to integrate. HUD and CHA created a plan that specifically had African- Americans to mobilize in to the white areas surrounding the city. In order to relocate 7100 families, it took well over 20 years.
It was also the time when STD’s and AIDS came into the mainstream, so the themes of sex and intimacy interested audiences in 1980’s. Through their relationships, the film tries to answer the question, "Can men and women be just friends, without sex getting in the way? ", and also shows what can happen to a friendship when sex does become involved. The story starts out in 1977 at the University of Chicago where Harry and Sally first meet. They are taking the trip from Chicago to New York where they are headed to launch their careers.
Clarence Darrow • Born in Ohio; studied one year at Allegheny College, PA; studied law at University of Michigan for one year but leaves before graduating • Moves to Chicago; involved in appeal of the Haymarket martyrs; defense attorney for Industrial Workers of the World and for members of the American Communist Party • Opposes capital punishment D. Robert Crowe • Studied law at Yale University • 1916: elected judge on Circuit Court • 1919: elected chief justice of Cook County Criminal Court • 1920: elected state’s attorney of Cook County • Politically ambitious: desires to become next mayor of Chicago E. The Trial • Darrow prepares the defense by hiring psychiatrists to analyze Leopold and Loeb • Psychiatric report: o Leopold: bullied at school – lonely childhood Governess had sex with him at age 12 Slave-king fantasy Loeb: governess imposes strict discipline at early age; responds by lying to his governess Fantasy of being the perfect criminal • Darrow strategy: o cannot plead the defendants innocent: they have confessed in detail and have shown evidence of the crime to the
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister in Alabama who held of one the leadership like roles available to African-America people during a time of struggle. Later on in his career, he became civil rights activist who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His brilliant effort to start desegregation movement, sparked the March on Washington where he delivered his most famous speech “I Have a Dream”. His effort to end segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means earned him a Nobel Prize and earned him the respect he deserved as leader and honor to be recognized as father of Civil Rights Movement (Discovering World Edition, Online Edition “Martin Luther King Jr.). The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started, and led by Martin Luther King Jr, in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama trying to challenge the city’s policy of racial segregation on its public transportation system.
Jane Addams Introduction Jane Addams, known for her work as a social reformer, pacifist and feminist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born Laura Jane Addams on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. The eighth of nine children born to an affluent state senator and businessman. Addams lived a life of privilege. Her father had many important friends, including President Abraham Lincoln. In the 1880s, Addams struggled to find her place in the world.
Thanks to the liberal policy of University president Robert Hutchins, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a tuition scholarship, at the age of 15. In 1947 Watson left the University of Chicago to become a graduate student at Indiana University, attracted by the presence at Bloomington of the 1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann Joseph Muller, who in crucial papers published in 1922, 1929, and in the 1930s had laid out all the basic properties of the heredity molecule that presented in his 1944 book. He received his PhD degree from Indiana University in 1950. Watson married Elizabeth Lewis in 1968. They have two sons, Rufus Robert Watson and Duncan James Watson.
Meanwhile, this action had inspired other blacks to do the similar demonstrations in many other towns in the state. And this movement became so contagious that it had spread to 54 cities in 13 states within 2 months. By the end of july 1960, officials in greensboro reluctantly lifted the whites-only policy at the restaurants’
Martin had an enormous effect in social America. He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama that was noticed world wide. In 1963, Dr. King directed a peaceful march in Washington D.C. when he delivered the speech, “I have a dream…” He was also named Man of the Year by Time Magazine in 1963. Martin led a social reform movement for civil rights that unified the middle class African-Americans. At age thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
All these couples want is to have the same rights to get married as any heterosexual couples. Over the United States more people have joined (NOW) and are doing campaigns in their own states such as Chicago and Maryland (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). (NOW) was established in June 1966 by twenty-six woman and they believed that the gay community should stay in the back and let them handle everything for the gay community, but they were wrong and in October of 1966 over three hundreds gays and lesbians attended their first meeting and five short years later thousands of people from all over the country have joined (NOW) (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). People from all over the country now recognize (NOW) as a real group (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). Even though it is 2014 there are still thousands upon thousands of gays and lesbians that still