Bernard Montgomery

Selma is an Oscar nominated movie for Best Picture; the first film directed by a black female director (Ava Du Vernay) in history. The movie is based on the year of 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, it shows the last final stages of the Civil Rights Movement. The sequence chosen for this analysis is the sequence where Dr. King (David Oyelowo) arrives to Selma. At his arrival to the “Black Belt” region of central Alabama Dr. King and his colleges direct themselves to the…

Tobias MacIvey: Tobias MacIvey moved to Punta Rassa, Florida, from Georgia after the Civil War. He serves as the leader in this novel. He continues to raise his family down in Florida. His family goes through a rough patch and struggles, but then they become extremely successful from growing orange groves to sell and herding cattle. Tobias has an understanding and loving heart that goes out to people in need of work. He treats his fellow workers like family. He becomes weak and dies from malaria…

Martin Luther King Do you have a dream? Martin Luther King (MLK) had a dream that came true. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. MLK was a very intelligence person that had skills most people did not have. Martin Luther King attended segregated public school at the age of fifteen. He received a B.A degree in 1948 from Morehouse college. He had a dream and always wanted to be equal to whites and new one day it would happen. MLK was both a Baptist…

Bizarre Destinations Mary Flannery O’Connor known as Flannery O’Connor was born a Roman Catholic in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. O’Connor parents are Regina Cline and Edward F. O’Connor. She lived there until the family moved to Milledgeville, Georgia (Werlock). O’Connor lost her father to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at the age of fifteen (Gordan). She achieves the master program in creative writing. She is an influential American Poet and essayist in history. O’Connor insists that her…

in the ‘Outsider Reader’ describes a little orphan girl, Anne, who was living at an asylum, another word for orphanage. She is trying to get adopted, but the couple who asked for an adoption wanted a boy, not a girl. In this extract Lucy Maud Montgomery describes how Anne is treated like a thing not a person, but then as the segment progresses, she is treated better. Anne is the perfect example of an outsider who has been marginalised, and she is desperately wanting to be part of the couples’…

“According to a Florida Department of Education survey more than 21,000 drivers illegally passed school buses on a one day survey.” In a 180 day school year that is already 3,780,000 violations. Imagine how many lives are affected by this number. A major problem in the United States today is that drivers will not stop for school buses because of too many unreasonable excuses such as not knowing when, why, or how to stop for a school bus. Buses have signals that people don't pay attention to…

Miriam puts her personal relationship with her maid, Odessa before her personal relationship with her husband, Norman after a boycott of the public transportation system explodes into a southern debacle. It all began in the year 1955, on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Rosa Parks did what no other colored person would have dreamed of doing: she sat at the front of the bus. At this time, segregation was on the rise and whites and black were separated in every possible way. Blacks were not allowed…

Rosa got on the bus, and she sat in the white section. Then, a white man got on the bus and he wanted Rosa’s seat, but she refused to get up. So the bus driver said “If you do not get up, I will have you arrested.” So Rosa said said “You may do that.” So the bus driver had her arrested. The police took her in their custody. They put her in jail for 2 days. Before they put her in jail, they asked her questions about the case. She said that the reason she did not get is because she was tired and…

Segregation popular in the early to mid 1900s, a law the separates the whites from the colored. Segregation was just not another law the citizens of America had to follow, it was a law that caused hate, racial profiling and inequality. One incident that occurred during the time of segregation, one that no one would forget, especially for those of color was Rosa Park on the city bus where she refused to give up her seat for a white man. She was arrested for breaking the law, Parks did not cause a…

Many events, protests and demonstrations took place because of the formation of so many new activist groups. A popular protest event was the sit in. On February 1, 1960, the first sit in took place at Greensboro’s Five and Dime. Four students sat down at a lunch counter asking to be served. The response from the waiter was that the store didn’t serve colored. The students were unhappy for they had ordered at a different table and were served, but when they went up to a whites counter, they were…