26th of July Movement

Imagine you 're a 45 year old woman participating in a protest in Washington DC. The year is 1900, and you 're holding a sign that reads "Voting rights for women". As people pass you on the street, you hear them whisper. "Ugly suffragist." they say, "Bet no man has ever loved her." You stand there, with a blank look on your face. You think to yourself about how you doing this, you taking a stand for women, will mean women in the future will be treated better, respected, and stand equal with men.…

since 1924, citizens of America. Before 1924, the Bureau of Indian Affairs discouraged traveling off of reservations, revoking traveling rights and hunting and fishing rights that the Native Americans deserved. Due to Native American Civil RIghts movements, Native Americans have obtained these rights, along with the right to vote. This unusual relationship between America and the Native Americans is still tense…

Events was very different than Guatemala The main difference was the leaders Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, at 26 he led a 150 man attack made of farmers and factory workers against the military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in 1953. They were out maned so he fled to mountains but was captured weeks later. Another difference was the makeup of the two societies. Cuba was mad up of decedents of slaves. Castro 's revolution would develop under the shadow of American government when it was a colony of…

of mint and anise and cumin, and you have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.” (KJ21, Matthew 23:23) In his speech, “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” Frederick Douglass reminds his audience that there is much work to be done in abolishing the slave trade and much of that work revolves around treating all people with the same amount of respect. Douglass begins by regaling the Ladies…

life as an African American wasn’t at the high level of difficulty it once was before. In 2008, we had an African American president. Everything seemed to be moving forward or at least that’s what they wanted us to believe. On the evening of February 26th, 2012 Trayvon Martin ,an unarmed 17-year-old African American student, was confronted, shot, and killed near his home by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was not found guilty. August 9th, 2014…

How did you first catch the quilting bug? Was it a beautiful quilt in a magazine that caught your eye? Did you watch your grandmother quilt when you visited her over Thanksgiving as a child? Maybe you attended a museum exhibit and knew right then that you wanted to make something as gorgeous as what was hanging on those walls. In any case, you probably took up the art with excitement. Then maybe you unintentionally made the mistake of choosing the wrong pattern as a first project. Your…

Police brutality, the killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, and many other innocent and unarmed black people are all examples of racial injustice within our own country. Racial injustice has become a very large issue and too many people are dying for reasons unknown. There are people in the world who do not have a large enough audience to effectively speak on the issue with numerous people noticing. The players are using their unique stage to give people a voice who do not have one.…

that heap of the British Empire embracing Great Britain, undertook to make laws for the administration of that section made out of the thirteen American Colonies. A battle for the right of self-government took after, which happened, on the fourth of July, 1776, in a Declaration, by the Colonies. In comparability of this Declaration of Independence, each of the thirteen States continued to exercise its various sovereignty; adopted for itself a Constitution, and appointed officers for the…

Millions of people recognize Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an icon of rebellion through his involvement with the Cuban Revolution, along with the other facets he facilitated in the opposition oppression. Aside from the political impact Che Guevara made during the Cuban Revolution, not many people know the accuracy behind the revolutionary’s commitment to unity, equity and freedom of Latin American citizens. Che Guevara was extremely dedicated to fighting injustice and oppression, but was often…

Sufferance can be described as a way of describing what African Americans went through their life, because of racism. In other words Madam CJ Walker wasn’t that successful but she was on her road to riches with brilliant ideas that changed the world forever: “Suffered from scalp ailment which resulted in hair loss, promoted her own products by traveling around the country giving lecture demonstrations.” (Foner and Garraty 1) Madam CJ Walker eventually established: “Madam CJ Walker Laboratories”…