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Assigned Blog #6 1/7/10

Little Rock 9

It was a case that went to court. They want to desegerate of races in school. Which they made agreement in court to do desegrate schools. School Board Little Rock agreed to this. It happened in 1957 at Little Rock Central High School. Th

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Selma, Alabama

Selma, Alabama was a vital part of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement happened throughout the 1960’s. In Selma, before the Freedom Movement, all facilities that were open to the public were segregated. They had places for blacks and

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Friday 2-5-10

First we looked at the New Deal test questions. They are...

What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)? The First New Deal 1933-34. It didn't end the depression, but helped with the suffering of people. It tried to get a more organized p

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Assigned Blog #5

I did my weekly blog over Malcom x since it is black history month. Malcom x was born in Omaha, Nebraska which i found surprising because it seems like nothing interesting ever happens out here except 4 feet of snow. Malcom was born May 19, 1925. Mal

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assign blog five.

Ella Fitzgerald
"The First Lady of Song"

Born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald had divorced parents shortly after the day of her birth, April 25th. After her parents divorce, Ella and her mom Temperance or "Tempie" moved in with a lon
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2-6-10 Blog

Madam C.J Walker


Madam C.J Walker moved to Saint Louis to live with her four brothers. Who were barbers, she worked for very little money $1.50 a day. In the 1890s Madam C.J Walker began to suffer from a rash on her head that caused her to lose almost
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Assignment Blog #4

Unemployment Rate 9.7%




January 2010 brought unexpected results – a decline in the unemployment rate from 10% to 9.7%. This is the lowest that the unemployment rate has been since August. The decline was welcomed by President Obama, who said the number
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Rosa Parks

Rose Louise McCauley was born on February 4,1913, in Tuskegee, Albama to parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Rosa's father worked as a carpenter while her mother was a teacher. Rosa was not completely African American, but of African American,

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Assigned Blog #5

Black History Month

Colin Powell was the 65th U.S. Secretary of State and general of the U.S. Army. He was President Bush’s secretary of state during his first term as president. Powell was the firstAfrican-American to be the secretary of state, and t

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Assigned Blog #5

In the early 1900's African Americans didnt have many of the simple privilages as whites. Blacks could not stayin certain hotels or even eat in certain restaurants. There were many brave African Americans trying to gain equal rights and many of them

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Assigned Blog #5

Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA. His mother, Mallie Robinson, raised Jackie and her four other children on her own. They were the only black family in their neighborhood, the pre

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Friday February 5, 2010

Today in class we started by going over went over what we’re going to be doing next week. I studied for my United States and capitals test. After studying I took it. I thought it took me a while because I skipped around a little bit. My grade was one

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Today the rest of the class took the states capitals test. I got 100%. Everyone else worked on their free choice assigned blogs for this week or posted message board posts. I have not yet picked a topic.
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feb 5th

today i didnt have to take the test so we had to our free choice blog and i already did that so i went on espn and watched some videos so it was a fun day
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Today those of us who didn’t have to take the test had time to work on our blogs. I chose the topic of the death of the last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited the Indian island chain for over 65000 years. Boa Sr. has died at the age of 85

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friday feb 5

okayy today is pretty much a work day. iam trying to get some more of my disscussions done. i have no idea what i am going to do for my free choice blog yet.
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