Richard Montgomery

“Our Auntie Rosa” is a non-fiction biography written by Sheila McCauley Keys with Eddie B. Allen Jr.. Our Auntie Rosa is the remembrance of Rosa Parks and her accomplishments throughout her lifetime not only as the mother of the civil rights movements, but also the mother figure she had towards her loved ones. Keys who is Parks seven of the thirteen nieces and nephews took the initiative to document the family’s history and the most memorable memories of her aunt. While refusing her seat in the…

Long Walk Home Summary: The movie The Long Walk Home directed by Richard Pearce is an inspiring movie recounting the experiences of regular citizens during the Montgomery bus boycott, narrated by a young white girl Mary Katherine Thompson. The theme of the movie is that one has to do what’s right regardless of what other people think. The movie starts by showing a regular day for the Thompsons, a well-off white family living in Montgomery Alabama. Their black maid, Odessa Cotter, helps to cook…

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…

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…

Parks went against this rule by not leaving her seat for a white man, for this she was arrested with charges of Civil Disobedience. Her arrest inspired others including the leader of the Civil Rights movement Marin Luther King which lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Boycott lasted from 1955 to 1956 and received lots of media attention which was beneficial later in the movement. A landmark law case of THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT was held in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education in which the…

The Long Walk Home is a 1990 film based on Montgomery Bus Boycott that took place during 1955 and 1956. Director Richard Pearce introduces the audience to a time period where a revolution in America was taking place to destroy the segregation between Blacks and Whites (IMDb 1990). This film portrays two inspirational women: Odessa Cotter and Miriam Thompson. Both are on the opposite ends of the social chain but are able to connect through their moral beliefs on what is wrong and right during a…

died in World War Two. This was extremely hard on him because his, single, mother worked all the time. At a young age he took on many responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning.His childhood nickname was Bobo. According to a childhood friend, Richard Heard, Emmett was incredibly amusing and a chubby kid compared to others but he didn’t let that ruin anything. He got polio at the age of five which, is a virus that causes a paralysis. In 1955, his uncle came for a visit and at the end of his…

The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

“A Good Man is hard to get" is a novel that has a good construction in the context of the idea that the author wants to put across. Just like any other novel, there are many characters that have been used in this novel in order to help in the establishment of the plot and the presentation of the themes of the novel. I n this novel, the author has used various main characters such as the Misfit and his crew, the grandmother and her co family. However, there are also other minor characters whom…

Themes are universal lessons and subjects in a piece of writing or book. Both Hamlet and the Twelfth Night have universal themes. The two plays teach valuable lessons throughout the actions going on. Readers are able to recognize themes throughout the plays based on the specific characteristics of each of the plays. The two books have some clear differences. The Twelfth Night was written in 1601 while Hamlet was written in 1599. The different times of being written can allow the reader to…