Sarah Dunlap US History Black History Month Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona and James McCauley, a teacher and a carpenter. She was an African, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry. She was small as a child, suffering from poor health with chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the capital of Montgomery. She grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester.
Even though there were strict consequences for Parks she did not give into threats and yelling of the bus driver. Rosa Parks stood up for that she believed in and made a change. On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus after a long grueling day at work. Soon after a couple stops were made and more white passengers boarded the bus, the bus driver told Rosa to get up and move so that there were more seats for the white people. Rosa paid no attention to the driver speaking towards her and continued to look out the window.
Mean Girls Mean Girls is a coming of age film. The movie follows a girl by the name of Cady Heron who starts off being a home-schooled jungle freak to Plastic to most hated person in the world to actual human being. Cady spent 12 years in Africa being home-schooled due to her parents’ studying as research zoologists. Her mother had then earned a job at Northwestern University which caused Cady & her family to move to Evanston, Illinois in America. Feeling that she needed to socialise, Cady’s parents enrolled her to North Shore High school.
Before actually reading the book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, I had no idea of all the different ways Mrs. Parks helped advance the rights of African Americans. Growing up I’ve always vaguely known about Mrs. Parks and how she changed the status quo by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, but there’s so much more to her than just that. Jeanne Theoharis does a great job by really showing the true life of Mrs.
Just as blacks in the south, they wanted equal rights. However, there was one major difference: there were no laws in the north pertaining to the black community. There were no political figures to fight. In the south, civil rights protestors had a battle laid out for them: they had the Jim Crow laws to deem unjust; they had the numerous bombings directed toward important black icons to protest. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “expose the evil” tactic worked so well in the south because so much of the evil was easily spotted.
The Interstate Commerce Commission helped the civil rights by saying that everyone can sit wherever they want on a bus even if they look different or believe in something else then most people. Discrimination in housing was another problem in the 1960’s. Many blacks lived in poor areas, because most banks, realtors, and homeowners wouldn’t sell nice homes to the blacks. 57 percent of all non-white housing was below the standards for a good home. John F. Kennedy ‘s Executive Order #11063 tried to have the blacks housings fair to the whites housings.
Her life was challenging from the beginning. Her parents separated and moved to Pine Level, Alabama, where she lived with her grandparents and was forced to go to a segregated, one-room school, where it lacked essential supplies, such as desks. Later in life, she married her new husband, Raymond
She was arrested for breaking laws on segregation called “Jim Crow Laws”. This included laws that discriminated against African Americans associated to attendance in public schools and the use of places such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people. (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm). It was very easy to segregate people under this law in every aspect of law except transportation.
Therefore they had no rights as citizens. In the years after the war they did gain some improvements and began to protest for more, but by 1955 this was not enough to make a difference. Black Americans were subjected to segregation. The ‘Jim Crow’ laws meant that they had to use separate diners, separate schools and separate transport. This was
Oprah was originally named “Orpah” after the Biblical character in the book of Ruth, but there was a typo on her birth certificate. She was brought up by her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee. Her grandmother taught Oprah to read and write by the age of three. Because they lived such poor lives, Oprah was made fun of for wearing dresses made of potato sacks and played with dolls made of corn husks. She actually didn’t receive her first pair