William B. Sandys

was asked to Cooper later joined the movement after becoming inspired after one of MLK’s speeches at Brown Chapel Church. Although minute details about events were accurate, many critics have been questioning if the representation of President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the film, Johnson is depicted as…

On a cold Sunday on the seventh of March in 1965 about 600 civil rights marchers 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…

Since the nineteen fifties, Americans have slowly begun to lose trust in the government. According to the Pew Research Center, eighty percent of Americans do not trust the government (Reynolds). Many events have led to a decline in trust in the government, but the three most important events will be further discussed. Americans have grown disillusioned with the federal and state governments due to the Vietnam war, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Watergate Scandal. On March 8,…

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet photographed by the French photojournalist Marc Riboud was captured on October 21, 1967. The location was an anti- Vietnam war protest that took place in the American capital at the Pentagon. The girl in the photo is 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir. The protest involved 100,000 participants’ vs 2,500 soldiers. Riboud captured a fleeting moment, that of a girl offering a flower to the soldiers and the spirit of…

Women around the world have fought a long and hard road for equality between sexes. They have overcome many obstacles in the past fifty years so many men and women think that women have overcame everything, but that is not true. Their biggest and most profound march was in 1913 and it was called “The Suffrage Hike for Women’s Rights.” The biggest leading cause one of their march was for women to be able to vote. Their biggest achievements was in 1920 when they had won the right to vote. In 1920…

What does it mean to be a global citizen? If you want to see a prime example of one, just look at Louise Arbour, a huge spokeswoman for international justice and equality. Born February 10th, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Louise Arbour is the daughter of Bernard Arbour and Ruth LaBerge. She has one brother, Patrick Arbour, and is currently married to her loving husband Larry Taman, with whom she has three children. At the age of twenty-two, Louise attended the Université de Montréal and began…

Did you ever wonder how countries that had some major accident rose back from such disasters?! The peace corp, that's how. The peace corp is the best organization in america for the 1960’s. The peace corp will help countries financially or physically when other countries turn their backs. First, the peace corp helps other countries when a natural disasters hit.The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F.Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised…

Over the many years, Americans have lived in this great country, we have also had many presidents. Those presidents have done very great things for this country. They have given some amazing inauguration speeches. John F. Kennedy gave the best speech of all. To start, In Kennedy’s speech he had given many great quotes about the people and the country his people live in. One of the best quotes was, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” That is a very…

Introduction The United States Department of Transportation is a cabinet level agency of the federal government responsible for planning and coordination of federal transportation projects. This simply means it is responsible for helping maintain and develop the nation’s transportation systems and infrastructure. The department also plays a key role by providing funding to state and local authorities each year to help improve transportation programs throughout the country. It is also mandated…

In the website New York times the article “ Voters Gather at Susan B. Anthony’s Grave in Rochester was published November 8 2016 and it was writing by Sarah Maslin NIR Susan B. Anthony is the most important key people in this article. The main idea of this article is that in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., up a low hill there is the grave of Susan B. Anthony a leader of the movement for women’s suffrage who lived about three miles away. On Tuesday a line of hundreds of people who came…