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Rodney King beatings

On March 3, of 1991. Rodney King was drinking and driving. He was also speeding. Cops clocked him for about going 100 mph. King didn't want to get pulled over because it will violate his parole of a buglary charge. The high speed

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Rodney King Beatings

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Rodney King was an African American who was victim to a beating of Police officers from Los Angeles. The whole beating was filmed by a witness that was nearby. The clip they found on his camera showed the Los Angeles police officers beating the Afric

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Niagara Movement

-- The Niagara Movement was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was a black civil rights movement. It was named this because they expected to cause a “mighty current” of change and their first meeting was near Niagara Falls. To

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Black History Month; The Little Rock Nine.

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In 1957, nine kids (The Little Rock Nine) were prevented from entering the very segregated school by the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus. Here's their story.

In 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court issued thee famous Brown
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Assigned Blog 6- Montgomery Bus Boycott

In Montgomery Alabama the Montgomery Bus Boycott campaign started in 1955. It was a social and political protest that was opposed to the city's policy of racial segregation. Important figures of the civil rights movement got involved with this boycot

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Today is Thursday. Presentations. About all that I am going to say is that the government was very stupid back then. They were urging farmers not to grow an abundance of crops even though thousands or millions of people were going hungry. What the he

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Wenesday, February 10, 2010

Unfortunately we are once again back into the full swing of things in terms of our New Deal Presentations.

Cuddie gave a fairly enthusiastic presentation about one of his favortie things in the world... music. He talked about jazz and the impact that

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Today we continued a bit with our blog discussions. Martin Luther King was talked about and his “I Have A Dream” speech. I wonder what the world would be like today if MLK had not been killed. I am still shuddering from the brutality of the Omaha Rac

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Today is Monday the 8th of February. this month is already sliding by like a bobled on a luge track. We took a break today from the presentations and did our blog discussion day. I talked about Booker Taliafero Washington. Booker T, as he is reffered

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Friday, February 5, 2010

It is finally Friday! We continued on with our presentations and whatnot. It is really hard to believe that all of these organizations were set up so quickly when the Depression set in. I know that there were no perfect plans and that many of them ha

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Oscar Stanton De Priest

In Alabama on March 9 1871 Oscar was born to two former slaves. His mother was a laundress. His father was involved in a movement which helped slaves escape the south after the Civil War. After a man was killed on their doorstep they move to Dayton,
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Assigned Blog Week 6

In honor of Black History Month this week's blog is about the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.

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Before 1954, racially segregated schools were part of the way things were, as well as the segregation of many other public facilities, thanks to the
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Friday Febuary 12

Questions for test.

What was the new deal (1st and 2nd )

Three R’s of the new deal- relief recovery and reform. Relief was the immediate action taken to halt the economic decline. Recovery included the Agriculture Adjustment Act Public Works Home Owner

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