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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing took place on Septmeber 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. It was an act of discrimination and hate by the Klu Klux Klan. Birmingham had the worst case of the Klu Klux Klan. Despite Martin Luther King Jr's speeche

What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?

The First New Deal 1933-34. It didnt end the depression. tried to get more organized partnership between the government and corporations. wanted to restore the economy, starting with the banks.

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Jackie robinson was the first black guy to play in the MLB..he was born in 1919...he had such accomplishments as being the first person to letter in four varsity sports at UCLA...he lettered in baseball, basketball, football, and t

James Marshall Hendrix or as many people know him Jimi Hendrix was an american singer, songwriter, and known most famously for his guitar playing abilities. He was born on November 27,1942 in Seattle Washington and died on September 18, 1970. His par

James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902. He was the second child born. He went to High School in Cleveland, Ohio. He started writing poetry in 8th grade and continued to do so in High School. His dad did not think that he would mak

The Black Panthers Party for Self-Defense was created in Oakland California in October 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The BP practices military self-defense for minority communities to protect them from the U.S. government and tried to revoluti

-Lucas finished his today and her talked about the Banking Act of 1933. The Banking Act established the FDIC. It was passed in 1935. The FDIC insures peoples money and makes them feel safer putting money in a bank.

-Alex went next and his two topics w

Pro Football or National Football League( NFL ) originated in 1869. The game was a combination of rugby and soccer. During the early years of the NFL, blacks were not allowed to play until 1902 when Charles Follis signed a contract to be the first Af

-Nick went first today his two topics were the NYA and the difference between the first and second new deal. The first new deal was aimed at the buisness on top and the second new deal was aimed at the people that didn't have jobs. The first new deal

Luis Armstrong was born July 4, 1900, to a poor family in New Orleans. The grandson of slaves Luis grew up in a very poor part of town known as Uptown New Orleans or the Back of Town, as some called it.

His father, William Armstrong, abandoned the fam

-Ian went first today. The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed in 1938. It gave the government power to oversee the making of food, drugs, and cosmetics. Most of the Supreme Court was against his new plan. FDR added new people to the supreme court

Plessy vs. Ferguson was the legal case for the fairness of segregation to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. Some states passed Jim Crow Laws that stopped blacks from using the same facilities and other things than whites. Some blacks even lost their ri

i took this quiz the first time and tried to put it on here but the picture didnt show, so i re took it just a few minutes ago and i got a different result. its pretty much teh same except last time i was farther away from the line but i am still a d

In 1951, the state of Kansas had a law that permitted public elementary schools to have segregrated schools for the black and the white children. However, this law did not require the schools to be segregrated.

The case was started by thirteen parents

Civil Rights workers like Martin Luther King Jr. had meetings at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. This church was located in Birmingham, Alabama. The city became filled with tension when the racial equality groups tried to register blacks to vote

On July 26, 1948 Executive Order 9981 was issued by the U.S president Harry Truman. Executive Order 9981 put an end to racial segregation within the United States Military. Harry Truman declared that "There shall be equality of treatment and opportun

This weeks Blog was again over Black History Month and I decided I was going to do mine over Oprah Winfrey. I quoted all of the exact words that I took from in “ “in the blog, so to not get in trouble because I quoted itJ.

Oprah Winfrey was born Janua