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Monday, February 8, 2010

Today in class, this is what talked about (blog discussions)

Kyle --Marcus Darvy- created Universon Apporvment Negro Association and African Communities LEague. focused on racial pride during the 1920's. you should be proud to be black, as well as whi

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Monday Feb 8, 2010

Blog disscusion today.

-Bloody sunday- 1965 Samlma to montgomery was a march and they eventually got attacked.

-Thurgood Marshall- was a lawyer. First black supreum court justice

-Brotherhood of sleeping Car Porters - african american labor union. Basic

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Today we continued with our presentations and were also given our blog topics for this week. We have to research an influential African American for black history month. The African American community should probably step it up and get some more infl

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Toyota Prius Break Problem

The Prius Break Pedals Don’t work.

Everyone knows of the Toyota Prius. But, recently they have had a problem with their breaks sticking.

Toyota has now hit 100 complaints about this problem. The Chinies government has been pushing Toyota to do somethin

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Blog #5

Martin Luther King jr. was born on January 15 1929. He grew up in Atlanta where he went to high school at Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped ninth and twelfth grade to enter Morehouse College. He graduated Morehouse with a bachelor of arts

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sunday 2/7/2010

Future American civil rights leader, Baptist Minister, and politician Jesse Jackson was born October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. He adopted is stepfather’s name at the age of fifteen. He attended the University of Illinois, on a football s

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Freedom Rides

Freedom Riders are people who get on interstate buses and go to the southern United States and test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton V. Virginia.

Boynton v. Virginia was something that outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and wai

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Langston Hughes- Schech

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Langston Childhood- Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. He is the second son of Carrie Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes. Langston was essentially a mixed race. He was part African American, European American, and Native American.

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friday february 5th 2010

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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Carol Moseley-Braun

Carol Moseley-Braun

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Carol Moseley-Braun was born on August 16,1947 in Chicago Illinios to a woman named Edna and a man named Joeseph. Joseph was a Chicago police officer and Edna a medical technichian. Education was very important to them.Carol's educ
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Assigned Blog #5

People in Haiti are continuing their struggle to stay alive after the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck their country early this year. With over 200,000 people dead and thousands more without food, water, or shelter, Haitians are working hard t

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thursday february 4th 2010

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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wednesday february 3rd 2010

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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Assigned Blog 5- Watts Riots.

On Wednesday, August 11th, 1965 the Watts Riots began. In Los Angeles a black man, Marquette Frye was accussed of driving while drunk. A white California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer named Lee Minikus pulled him over. Marquette Frye was given so

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National Health Care

Canada’s Newfoundland premier Danny Williams is having heart surgery in the United States. Kathy Dunderdale, deputy premier, has confirmed that Danny Williams is having the surgery. This surgery is not a routine procedure and it was not an option for

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Blog #5 African American History Month

Lynching

To start off, the definition of lynching is when a group or a mod punishes either a group of people or just a person. It its usually done to limit a certain type of population. How this is involved in African American History Month is that pe
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Assigned Blog #4- Cops Gone Wild

Over the past twenty-five years the SWAT team, which is normally saved for urgent cases like hostage situations, has been sent out way too much. Often times it has been acting on false leads and tips. Barging into homes and killing dogs, scaring old

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Bloody Sunday

In March 7, 1965 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by local and state police.The police used billy clubs and tear gas to stop the marchers from completing there march. The march was supposed to be from Selma to Montgomery, along highway 80.

Thr
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George Washington Carver

george Washington Carver was born in 1865. he was born into slavery, his slavers treated him as if he was their own child after slavery was abolished, and encourged him to continue in his education. he went to collage at Simpson College but transfere

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