The Gettysburg Address “One Nation under God indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all” From my first day of school as a sixth grader until I graduated from High School, I’ve had to recite those words. At first I would repeat those words with no meaning behind them, but in later years after researching I found out there’s greater meaning behind each one of them.. Our nation went through a lot to get to the point where everyone is able to say those words. One of the most remembered event that took place was the Gettysburg Address. The Gettysburg Address was a speech delivered on November 19th, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Its purpose was to celebrate liberty and to honor those who fought for the U.S. Nation in the Battle of Gettysburg. This
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In Florida, blacks and whites attended separate school. The separate school systems were not fair. Schools for white children received more public money. If a town didn’t have enough money for two separate schools they would only built one school, which would be the school for whites. Some black schools were overcrowded. They didn’t have a sufficient amount of teachers to teach or school supplies. There were also limits on what black student were allowed to be taught in school. White school leaders did not want black students to know of ideas like equality or freedom. This is one example how what those soldiers fought was not remembered. After everything that happened on that battlefield, they just brushed off everything that happened and went back to their old …show more content…
December 1st, 1955, a 42-year-old- African American named Rosa Parks was arrested and convicted for violating the segregation laws, also known as “The Jim Crow Laws”. Ms. Parks went against the bus driver when he insisted that she gave her seat up for a white male. Whites seat were reserved on the bus, she was seated 10 seats behind the reserved seats. It was part of standard practice of segregation that black were to give up their seat if a white citizen needed somewhere to seat. As an active member of the NAACP Ms. Parks, was not going to back out of her decision. She felt that she was free to stay seated and she was right. Her ancestors and many soldiers fought for her to have that freedom. Moreover, Jim Crow Laws affected marriage. Black and white couples, also known as interracial couples were not allowed to get married. Blacks weren’t even allowed to interact with whites. A black male couldn’t offer to light a cigarette for a white female. That gesture implied intimacy. August 28th, 1955 Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten and killed by two white men for flirting with a white cashier. Love shouldn’t have any prevention. Love shouldn’t be determined by color, size, and gender. All should be equal to love whoever they want to love, with no
In Florida, blacks and whites attended separate school. The separate school systems were not fair. Schools for white children received more public money. If a town didn’t have enough money for two separate schools they would only built one school, which would be the school for whites. Some black schools were overcrowded. They didn’t have a sufficient amount of teachers to teach or school supplies. There were also limits on what black student were allowed to be taught in school. White school leaders did not want black students to know of ideas like equality or freedom. This is one example how what those soldiers fought was not remembered. After everything that happened on that battlefield, they just brushed off everything that happened and went back to their old …show more content…
December 1st, 1955, a 42-year-old- African American named Rosa Parks was arrested and convicted for violating the segregation laws, also known as “The Jim Crow Laws”. Ms. Parks went against the bus driver when he insisted that she gave her seat up for a white male. Whites seat were reserved on the bus, she was seated 10 seats behind the reserved seats. It was part of standard practice of segregation that black were to give up their seat if a white citizen needed somewhere to seat. As an active member of the NAACP Ms. Parks, was not going to back out of her decision. She felt that she was free to stay seated and she was right. Her ancestors and many soldiers fought for her to have that freedom. Moreover, Jim Crow Laws affected marriage. Black and white couples, also known as interracial couples were not allowed to get married. Blacks weren’t even allowed to interact with whites. A black male couldn’t offer to light a cigarette for a white female. That gesture implied intimacy. August 28th, 1955 Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten and killed by two white men for flirting with a white cashier. Love shouldn’t have any prevention. Love shouldn’t be determined by color, size, and gender. All should be equal to love whoever they want to love, with no