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public schools. Was CCSS a perceived plot by American’ conservatives or liberals to destroy our public schools; or a reality that the standards were developed behind closed doors by powerful like Bill Gates (Rycik) (Rycik, Support Continues to Erode for Common Core Standards and Assessments) A positive piece of evidence used can be illustrated through the history of CCSS’s creation. Travel through time from 1892 which illustrates how the “Committee of Ten” attempted to initiate high school…

The Little Rock Nine started at Central High School with: Melba Pattillo, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Carlotta Walls, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts, and Jefferson Thomas. They were the only African Americans who tried to attend Central High. Since that school was only for white students, the nine African American students couldn’t go to that school. So they made a plan on how to get inside the school. But, since Elizabeth Eckford didn’t have a…

peace advocate. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He attended Morehouse College and in 1948 he got a bachelor’s…

From not being recognized as a human, being sold as livestock, to being freed and given back humanity, to be treated as less than what you deserve and are worth, the Civil Rights Movement was a step into change. Wanting to improve the lives of all African- Americans in America, looking for the rights they deserved given to them by the Reconstruction Amendments, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X wanted the same thing. Searching for the same outcome but having two different strategies of…

also advocated for birth control and equal rights for women of divorce. Lucy Stone and other well known woman suffragist knew that winning the right to vote was only just the beginning. Carrie Chapman Catt transformed the National Women Suffrage Association into the League of Women Voters in 1920; she expected the league to encourage voter participation, educate voters, and lobby for improved legislation (Bausum 85). Some suffragist dedicated the rest of their life to continuing the improvement…

Brown vs Board of Education Imagine going to school day after day and constantly feeling inferior. In the early 1900s, African American teenagers had to feel this way every single day due to the fact that they were shutout and mocked. North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas all were challenged by racial segregation in public schools. “In 1954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that segregated public…

When he took a course in Biblical studies with Dr. Mays and Dr. George Kelsey, he saw them as prime examples of what the ideal minister should be. Both were greatly educated and deeply religious. In his senior year in college, he decided to join the ministry and finished college at nineteen (15-6). In 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. During his time at Crozer, he read a great deal from various philosophers such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Marx, and…

Abortion should be legal. Girls should have the choice to choose whether to keep the baby or end the pregnancy. The reason girls have the choice to end the pregnancy because what if the girl gets raped and the girls get pregnant by their rapist. A girl should be able to end the pregnancy and not keep the baby. One fact on a pro for abortion, “Reproductive choice empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies. The choice over when and whether to have children is central to a woman’s…

“…We colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them”(Houston Hartsfield Holloway).The civil war ended in 1865 leading to the freedom of four million African Americans. The slaves no longer dealt with the suppression of slavery, but now with the hardships of freedom. The African Americans now faced more problems. They were starting a new life with no money, low literacy rates, and not even their own plot of farmland. Their…

BUZZY--UNC PRESENTATION— What we have begun to learn within all of these scandals is that big schools find loopholes for their student-athletes to boost their academics instead of these student-athletes fulfilling their academic requirements on their own. Regardless of what sport you play there are ways around going to class and getting good marks, so that you can focus more of your time towards the athletic side of your student athlete life. The University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill has been…