African American history of Alabama

King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Dr. was an African American and both a Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He skipped ninth and eleventh grades, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15, in 1944. Dr. received the Nobel Prize in 1964, and several other honors. He had a great impact in race relationship in the United States and was considered as the most influential African American leader in history. The” Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written by Dr. King…

lines originating with two West african step sisters separated because of the slave trade in the mid 1700s. One line is sent to the deep south of the United States while the other remains in West Africa. This book challenges the ordinary thought process towards African and African American history as described in African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone, “... the idea of Africa was initially fashioned not by Africans but by non-Africans, as a ‘paradigm of…

Junior's Letter from Birmingham Jail, King responded to the Alabama clergymen’s public statement. The clergymen stated that what the African Americans were doing was too extreme and untimely. They also commended the police on their control of the situation. King did not like the way the clergymen thought of the civil rights movement. He wrote this letter to them to make arguments against what they had said about what the African Americans were doing to get political freedoms and be accepted by…

throughout the Civil Rights Era African Americans made the greatest sacrifice, protestors nearly risked their lives trying to achieve equal rights. There are even incidences when white protestors are targeted by hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. President Lyndon B. Johnson seemed to only use police brutality when it came to silencing the protestors and King during their…

History is a very interesting topic. Different opportunity’s happen because of certain events. People create different movements or just stand up for their rights or beliefs in which creates history. The Civil Rights Movement was a major part of history because that was the first movement towards equality. The causes of the Civil Rights Movement such as, Jim Crow Laws, Rosa Parks took the initiative, which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in front of…

across Poway highs campus where all the African Americans of our school stood on the left and all the whites stood on the right? Now imagine if one of the African American students stepped over the line and was arrested, and at the same time one of the white students crossed over but received no punishment. This is what it was like for the African American community in the 1955’s, they were not treated with equal rights. There were many African Americans that helped paved the way to equality…

how to avoid racial inequality. Have the actions of others influenced how we listen to these voices in the past? The south is notorious for the unequal treatment of the African American minority. The article, “A Flower for the Graves,” was written in response to the bombing on Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama, which resulted in the death of four black girls. In his article, “A Flower for the Graves,” Patterson states, “We-who stand aside in imagined rectitude and let the…

Alabama was an appalling place in the 1930’s for African-Americans, white male or females could accuse an African-American of any crime and anyone would listen solely based on the color of their skin. Picture this, a fight breaks out between some white and black young men who are riding as hoboes on a freight train in 1931. On the next stop, the nine African-American teenagers are arrested for assault and rape. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, prostitutes, were the two white women who accuse the…

Since the AAA textbook created an awareness of major problems in American government, it is important to note that since the creation of the colonies, not all Americans have possessed equal civil rights. Civil rights have been an important part of American government and history since the 1700s, beginning with the creation of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence states “all men are created equal” with “certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,…

change to the society and both wanting to put a stop to discriminations against African-Americans. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Pearl Gibbs born on 1901 at La Perouse, Sydney. They both stood up for their own rights, and what they believe in equality. Rosa Park is known as ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’, for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Pearl Gibbs, she co-organised the Aboriginal Day of Mourning 1938, she also…