Month: December 2015 (Page 2 of 6)

TOBACCO SAFETY                              made by the one and only Darian    (._.)/   The Tobacco Safety Movement (TSM) has affected almost everyone in the U.S and farther. If it weren’t for the Tobacco Safety Movement the person right next to you would be smoking a cigarette and then you would be smoking, eventually. It started in 1964 when  someone got suspicious and… Read more →

The Civil Rights Movement has affected every single African American person in the south. The movement started in 1955 and changed the way African American were treated.  With the help of people like Martin Luther King Jr, and Rosa parks African American people are now treated like American citizens.

 

One of the most inspirational leaders of the movement was Martin Luther King Jr for giving his famous ¨I HAVE A DREAM¨ speech on the march on Washington D.C. He was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among many efforts, King headed the SCLC. Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. King was assassinated in April 1968 by James Earl Ray, and continues to be remembered as one of the most lauded African-American leaders in history, often referenced by his 1963 speech, “I Have a Dream.¨ 

 

Another important person in this movement was Civil rights activist Rosa Parks and she was  born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP’s highest award. But on October 24 2005 died of old age when she was 92.

 

Some of the events that happen in this movement was the March on Washington when Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous ¨I have a dream¨. It was on August 28 1963 in front of 250,000 supporters and Dr King was on the steps of the lincoln memorial. He said I have a dream 8 times in his speech. People said that it was a defining moment of the movement. These are some of the famous lines from his speech:

 

¨I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

 

Another event i want to talk about is The Montgomery Bus Boycott and it started when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man and she got arrested for it. Now when that event happen African American people stopped riding the bus unless they could sit wherever they wanted to sit on the bus and the bus company  lost 50,000 people on there buses. With the help of Martin Luther King Jr the bus boycott was successful. The people marched for their bus rights from December 1 1955 to December 20 1956.

 

My last event will be about The Civil Rights Act of 1964.  President John F Kennedy also had wanted to stop segregation so he created the law that would open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments”, as well as “greater protection for the right to vote”. But after the assassination of J.F.K on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX President Lyndon Johnson fought for the law for him. On June 19, the substitute (compromise) bill passed the Senate by a vote of 73–27, and quickly passed through the House-Senate and the 27 who didn’t want the law passed were people from the south.

 

With the determination of Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, John F Kennedy, and other civil right supporters, African American people are now treated equally . Without the civil rights movement African Americans will still be segregated from hotels, restaurants, schools, bathrooms and more. But Instead African Americans are now enjoying what they fought for.

Civil Rights Movement

    By: Jeremiah Tamonte Lamar Green

What is it

The civil right’s movement was over in 1968 when the paper was sign when the black was slaves white tied them up with ropes and now all raises can now go  to the same school.

 

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Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. second child of Martin Luther King Sr. (1899-1984), a pastor, and Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929.

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 He grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country.

 

                                                     

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Martin Luther King Jr. house was bombed while he was at  the church  with members  of the  church  I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

 

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?”

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for whites only.”

We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

 

with new meaning, “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

 

With the determination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. he said I have a dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was 1848 when  the Women’s Suffrage started. It affected every women that was born in the U.S.A at that time because they didn’t get to vote for anyone they wanted for president or things like that. Since the movement succeeded we can now vote.  

 

Women’s Suffrage didn’t begin until Susan B Anthony called a meeting in Seneca New York. In that meeting they talked about getting their rights to vote. Susan B. Anthony  had gone to that meeting and all the women discussed that they were gonna peacefully protest until they got their rights to vote. Susan B. Anthony organized conventions for white people and she organized it to make it so that she could get people’s votes for  rights of the women to be able to vote. At this time we still had slaves so then it was just conventions for white people.

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a part of this also. She had helped make the Women’s Suffrage Movement take place.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton made and wrote speeches/pamphlets and wrote  “Declaration of women’s rights” with  Susan B Anthony. Elizabeth wrote many pamphlets and read speeches to big crowds.

 

Ida B. Wells was a women so back then before the  Women’s Suffrage began  all women weren’t treated the same as men. Ida B. Wells was banned from an anti-slavery, convention because she was a women. Ida B. Wells wasn’t allowed in any conventions because she was a women.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a book called. “A vindication of the Rights of a Women.” which supported the women in getting their movement  to pass. Mary Wollstonecraft was writing books and it helped her make their rights of a women more powerful  and greater. Mary Wollstonecraft worked very hard with these other 3 ladies to make the Women’s Suffrage Movement act succeeded.

 

The 9th amendment was what made the Women’s Suffrage come true and make the Women’s Suffrage come true and become a true act. The 9th amendment helped every women in the U.S to be able to vote. If the 9th amendment didn’t exist the women of the U.S wouldn’t be voting today.

 

Now you know how the women of the world can vote. You ladies can  thank Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Mary Wollstonecraft. All these ladies working together made the  goals of the Women’s Suffrage Movement come true.  Imagine if we didn’t have these ladies the Women’s Suffrage Movement probably wouldn’t have happened until years later.

Women Suffrage has affected every single women   in the USA.  The movement started in 1848 , Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton had a meeting in Seneca falls, New York . This affected women because if Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton didn’t succeed then ladies wouldn’t be allowed to vote.   

 

Women’s  Suffrage didn’t start with  Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Elizabeth  Cady Stanton gave lectures and speeches. She called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote.  Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton also worked with Susan B. Anthony and a woman  named Matilda Joslyn Gage also helped to make sure that all the women in the USA have the right to vote. Matilda Joslyn Gage also worked with the pair on parts of the project. Besides chronicling the history of the Suffrage movement, Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  took on the role religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women.

 

She had long argued that the Bible and organized religion played in denying women their full rights. With her daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, she published a critique, The Woman’s Bible, which was published in two volumes. The first volume appeared in 1895 and the second in 1898. This brought considerable protest not only from expected religious quarters but from many in the Woman’s  Suffrage movement.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26, 1902.  Susan B. Anthony died  March 13, 1906.

 

In conclusion now all Women have the right to vote in the USA.  Women are thankful that Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton made  Women Suffrage end and that they made men think that Women can vote just like them .  Thank you very much Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton for making this happen Women are thankful. You are heroes  Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton if you were here all the Women in the USA would say thank you to make sure that Women were able to vote just like men.

・⌣・Tobacco Safety

By: Paola G. Chicas

The Health and Safety movement is seriously important. Especially Tobacco. This has affected all teens and adults in the world to smoke.  This is affecting their health in a bad way(because their lungs are damaged each time when they smoke). This movement started in 1964, when congress decided to add warning labels (Ex: WARNING: This product could affect your health. If you use this product too much, you will get cancer. Please use it responsibly) on cigarettes and drugs. In order to smoke or drink, you’ll need to show your license if you can smoke and drink (Not “Drinking” Orange juice, “Drinking”  beer/wine until you get drunk.) or not, and you have to be 18 or older. Before this movement have started, Teens and Adults smoke whenever, wherever, and whatever they want. Children could barely breathe the air (THEY ARE BREATHING SMOKE FROM THE CIGARETTES! NOT GOOD!!!) thanks to the Teens and Adults who smoke.

One of the 2 people who made people stop smoking is Jeffrey Wigand. Wigand used his knowledge to tell all smoking companies to stop making cigarettes and drugs so teens and adults will become more healthy. He was born in 1942,  in New York city. In the 1990’s, he said that smoking will cause lung cancer and bad stuff! People blamed Wigand since the law of tobacco safety was added. (What is wrong with people these days? Probably because they wanted dem money to buy more cigarettes.) Wigand is still alive at age 72.

The other person who stopped smoking is Doris Duke (Aka Richest little girl). She is a Tobacco Heiress (a female heir, especially to vast wealth). She gave birth to a child in July, but died within 24 hrs. But the bad news is that she lived a sad life… as the richest little girl. She died in October 28, 1993 in the age of 81.

Lots of events happened in the Tobacco Safety Movement, here is the top 3 important events of them all. (I mean the very important.)

1. Before the Movement was made, teens and adults were drinking (Please drink responsibly.) and smoking and getting drugs. This is a bad influence on children. Teens and adults smoking is bad enough, but Parents smoking? TERRIBLE!!! This is teaching their kids that smoking is normal and so they can do it when they become teens/adults. So congress decided to add warning labels on cigarettes and drugs so less teens and adults could take them.
2. The government added a law that teens 18 and older must show their ID to smoke. Smoking under the age of 18 means that you’re doing something illegal. Smokers under the age of 18 were mad angry when they realized that it isn’t all ages now (Who would smoke at the age of 9? Nobody, right?)
3. Cigarettes and drugs ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH. It will damage your lungs! If you keep smoking, you will get lung cancer! Trust me: getting diagnosed with lung cancer is even worse than being in the hospital measuring your head and getting shots to remove the cancer (You’ll find out if you have something in a result of the cancer, knowing it is gone for good. But how will you breathe with lung cancer???) You need healthy lungs to breathe, not lung cancer!).

In conclusion, think before you do, and never, ever, take cigarettes. Even if you have a curiosity of cigarettes and drugs. If your friend gives you a cigarette and says “Try it.”. Don’t do it! Remember: Never take cigarettes , it’ll destroy your health, give you lung cancer, and even worse: if you smoke everyday, you’ll die! So read the warning labels before even trying it, don’t smoke, or ever!

~The end!~

Civil rights are an movement  that started in 1955 still happening today. Civil Rights are a class of rights that protect individuals‘ freedom from governments, social organizations, and private individuals.  Rosa parks and Martin Luther King Jr were African Americans that were affected by laws that were not equal for them.  They became leader in the Civil Right movement.  

 

Rosa parks life  was unfair because she had to give up her seat and she didn’t so she just had to go to jail. Rosa was born in February 4 1913.  Rosa parks had died in october 24 2005.  She had died in michigan detroit.   

 

 

 

Martin luther king jr he had to go to a different school because of segregation because he was a African American .Now that he became a Civil Right leader now African American can go to which ever school they want and same with the caucasians  in America.Martin luther king jr has past away in April 4 1968.   Martin  was born in january 15 1929.   Martin died in memphis tennessee.  Martin luther king jr  had grew up in atlanta georgia.

 

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was took place  in 1955-1956. Rosa Parks arrest had started because of the bus boycott. The Bus boycott has started in December 1  1955 and ended in December 20 1956. The Bus boycott had happen in Alabama.  In the Bus boycott they had lost 50,000  people during the Bus boycott.

 

 

On August 28 1963 there was a speech that Martin Luther King Jr delivered called the I have a dream speech.   The i have dream speech had gathered up in Washington DC right in front of the Lincoln memorial.  MLK JR had said i have dream 8 times.  MLK JR had said the speech in front of 250,000 people.  

 

civil Rights Activist of 1964

 

The civil right act of 1964 took place in July 2 1964. civil Rights Activist of 1964 was a landmark piece  that  outlawed the discrimination on your race,color,gender,religion,or national origin.  The racial segregation in schools, jobs, And general facilities that served the general public that was known as public accommodations.  

All the African American  in the south had unequal rights and  African American in the North they had equal rights like MLK JR, Rosa Parks, and other civil right leaders.  The determination of Rosa Parks and MLK JR were affected when black and white people couldn’t go to the same schools and can’t go to the same jobs also they can’t go to the same restaurants either.