Bernard Montgomery

Alabama State Teacher’s College. She has to cut short in her high school diploma because her mother became very ill. In 1932, she married with Raymond Parks who supported and encouraged her formal education, so she graduated in 2 years later. The Montgomery city segregated many years for white people and black people such as school, churches, and stores. Usually, it signed “For Colored Only” or “For White Only”. It…

Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to secure voting rights for African Americans. Having come out in 2014, Although any historical film is an interpretation of history, this movie accurately depicted what African Americans went through. The first scene introduces Annie Lee Cooper who was denied the right to vote after not being able to name the 67 county judges in Alabama. This was one of the many real…

headed east out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot soldiers” were mostly African Americans that traveled to Montgomery from Selma,…

In July 1, 1960, eight high school students protested at a lunch counter in the store Woolworths. These high school students were protesting about segregated lunch counters. The counter owner closed the counter until the students left. The eight students rotated between the three stores Woolworths, W.T. Grants, and People’s Drug Store. All reacted the same way by closing down the counter. The police could do nothing because there were no trespass or complaints filed. The store owners tried…

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, better known as Muhammad Ali was born on January 17th, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Muhammad’s parents, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and Odessa Grady Clay, were middle-class citizens and lived in the “nice” part of town. His father was a sign and mural painter, and his mother was a stay at home mom. On sundays, him and his family, including his younger brother Rahaman Ali, would all go to Mount Zion Baptist Church. Muhammad attended DuValle Middle School, then he went…

and lack of rights towards African-Americans. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man on a public bus. Later that day, many black men and women embarked on a 380-day bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This boycott was led by none other than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The date is August 28, 1963. There are hundreds of thousands of people in front of…

Introduction Most know the deed that Rosa Parks did, and how she started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. However, few know that the movement actually began when a young fifteen-year-old girl refused her seat to a white woman. This girl was Claudette Colvin. At first, the blacks were too scared to stand up against the injustices they endured, but with the right leaders, they rose up against segregation. Jim Crow Laws Blacks in the 1950s, living in central Alabama, lived a life completely controlled…

The Mississippi Improvement Committee is a rather abstruse name for a group advocating women’s rights and rights for all races. The name, and the people behind this group casts a positive light. What McGuire best shows is how this group has been neglected by history and how it has been “left in the footnotes of history.” McGuire states, “Georgia Gilmore and her club (MIA) from Nowhere, “represented more than the actual cash they contributed each week,” B.J. Simms insisted. He continues…

segregated school in Montgomery Alabama . Usually her school lacked of supplies. Through the rest of Rosa’s education ,she attended to other segregated schools in Montgomery. One of the schools she attended in Montgomery was the city’s Industrial School For girls. But after a while Rosa stopped attending school because her grandmother and mother got sick and Rosa stayed home to take care of both of them. She never did return back o school ,she just found a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery.…

The civil rights movement consisted of boycotts, sit-ins and protests that were led by speakers and organization who played a huge role in the movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was a response to the segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama. African Americans refused to ride city buses in order to send a message. For a year African Americans avoided taking the city buses and at the end of the boycott the court had ruled it violated the 14th Amendment, leading to the integration of city buses.…