Elizabeth Montgomery

moved to Montgomery, Alabama, She attended High School there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. Sadly when she reached the 11th grade, she had to leave to care for her sick grandmother. After her grandmother passing shortly after her mother got chronically ill. In 1932, things started to look…

itself. In David Margolick amazing novel, Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock he recounts the events of what happened on September 4, 1957. What happened fifty-eight years ago between Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan is still going on today with police brutality, protest, and discrimination. We can only improve race relations if we as people realize we all have the same equal opportunities. Fifty-eight years ago on September 4, 1957 Elizabeth Eckford attended Little Rock High School…

Rosa Parks is internationally recognized as the founder of the civil rights movement, and this is granted to the infamous bus boycott led by her in Montgomery, Alabama, and her other efforts to end segregation in the United States. Historians often date the beginning of the civil rights movements in the United Sates to Parks bus boycott on December 1, 1955. On this date, a young Rosa Parks was to change history forever by refusing to give her seat up to a Caucasian passenger on the bus, and move…

fellow schoolmates, “ ‘The niggers! Keep the niggers out!’ The shouts came closer. The roar swelled, as though their frenzy had been fired up by something. It took a moment to digest the fact that it was the sight of us” ( Beals 108). Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals; all young African American students who wanted nothing more than just an education. Yet,…

Many times in history, certain groups have been limited freedom. They are seen as inferior, and are mistreated. They have barely any rights, and do not know how to get out of it, and if it will ever get better. This happened in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine students integrated into a school of white children, and they were not treated nicely. They need to know what role to play in order to gain more freedom. Individuals play a huge part in how their futures will turn out. The most important role…

between two categories in society. First, there is the introvert who is described as someone who is energized internally; they prefer to spend time alone or with smaller groups. It is also said that they think before they act or speak as stated in Elizabeth Bernstein’s “Not An Introvert, Not An Extrovert? You May Be an Ambivert,” Also described in Bernstein’s article is an extrovert who is described as someone who is energized externally; they enjoy being around others and brainstorming ideas…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

When most people hear the name Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. they quickly refer to his “I have a Dream” speech during the march to Washington D.C., his involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, or the Nobel Peace Prize he earned in 1964. While his legacy is secure in the minds of all Americans, people often fail to realize that Dr. King was a visionary an ethical leader, who led our nation through the Civil Right Movement. I will start by explaining how Dr. King used the visionary leader traits…

In her opinion article “50 years later MLK’s work is not done” Donna Brazile, a CNN Political commentator, and Democratic strategist, uses Martin Luther King Jr. day to express where she feels we as a country are still unequal and the areas that we need to push in order to reach this equality. The purpose of her piece on the surface is exposed and motive us as a nation to change voting laws so that more individual are able to vote. Underlying though her purpose is to smear republicans and sway…

Henrietta Lack's contribution Toshia Milam Jacksonville State University Henrietta Lack's contribution “Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia.” (Biography.com editors, 2017). Henrietta was an African American tobacco farmer born under the name Loretta Pleasant. Henrietta was sent to live with her grandfather after the death of her mother in 1924. For unknown reasons, Henrietta changed her name after the death of her mother. During her stay she shared a room…