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Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize
333 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta King's father was the minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church where Reverend King, Sr. and Reverend King, Jr. served as pa stor's. Martin Luther King, Jr. earned his B. A. degree at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, a B. D. degree at Close Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, and a Ph. D. degree at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1954, Revere...
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President Franklin D Roosevelt World War Ii
1,104 wordsThe Tuskegee Airmen, the only African - American pilots to fight in World War II. In 1941, The pressure was put on President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take positive actions in the utilization of Negroes in the armed services. On March 7, 1942 the first five Negro cadets were commissioned as pilots of the United State Air Force. While assigned with the 324 th squadron, the 99 th received its first aerial victory and many more victories were to follow. The squadron earned the name "The Red Tail Ang...
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Helen Keller Strong Believer
459 wordsThis novel is about the amazing accomplishments Helen Keller has achieved. Her appearance was not much different from others even though she was blind and deaf. Helen had long light brown hair that was always tied up in a bun, with very thin lips. When Helen was a little girl she was very smart, greedy, and stubborn. She had a little sister. Instead of her sister being the little spoiled brat, Helen was. Helen always got her own way and was very difficult to handle by her teacher Anne Sullivan. ...
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Civil Rights Movement Bus Boycott
555 wordsBios of Important Civil-Rights Activists He was born on January 15, 1929 at a family home in Atlanta Georgia. King's grandfather was a Baptist preacher. His father was pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University in 1955. While at seminary King became acquainted with Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent social protest. On a trip to India in 1959 King me...
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Cases Of Aids University Of Alabama
1,456 wordsDebate around the origin of AIDS has sparked considerable interest and controversy since the beginning of the epidemic. However, in trying to identify where AIDS originated, there is a danger that people may try and use the debate to attribute blame for the disease to particular groups of individuals or certain lifestyles. The first cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in 1981, but they provide little information about the source of the disease. There is now clear evidence that the disease AIDS is ...
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The Caste System In To Kill A Mockingbird
1,267 wordsImagine a time and place where no one is equal. Colored people have to drink from different water fountains; those who were poorer are not allowed to be involved with those who were wealthier than them. As a matter of fact, if one was different, they are shunned by society. In a perfect world, people would rejoice in each one another's happiness, but this isnt a perfect world; nor was it in the 1930 s. The Southern states were an area of archaic, imported romanticism (Erisman, p. 1). People of t...
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Women And Children Welfare Reform
1,092 wordsPoverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. The readings from Babies and Benefits by Sheila Holbrook-White, the article on poverty by Michael J. Paquette, and Keeping Women And Children Last by Ruth Sidel made me view the issues of poverty in a different way. I never realised what kind of people were living in poverty, and the true reasons why they are there. What amazes me the most is how much these people need help, and how little the governm...
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Ku Klux Klan Civil War
624 wordsThe Ku Klux Klan's long history of violence grew out of the resentment and hatred many white Southerners felt in the aftermath of the Civil War. How did the Ku Klux Klan - one of the nation's first terrorist groups - so instantly seize the South in the aftermath of the Civil War? Vigilante justice became the motivation for many who later rode with the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan grew out of white Southern anger over the Civil War defeat and the Reconstruction that followed. The time was ripe for the ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Declaration Of Independence
582 words[/b] Throughout history, there have been many great leaders that helped our nation become what it is today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was by far a significant leader with outstanding accomplishments. He understood that the ideals of equality in which our nation was founded must not only be ideals but realities as well. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life for the struggle of the discrimination of blacks and by doing so, he accomplished much more than that in his lifetime. Dr. Martin Luth...
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Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
703 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an award-winning novel, published in 1960. Through six-year old Scout, her narrator, Harper Lee drew an affectionate and detailed portrait of Maycomb, Alabama, a small, sleepy, depression-era town. The main plot concerns the trial of an unjustly accused black man who is steadfastly defended by Scout's father, a respected lawyer. Covering a period of one year during Scout's childhood in Alabama, the story reflects the details of small-town life in the South ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Biography And Research
872 wordsIn his life, Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished many amazing things for the African-Americans in the United States and all over the world. He helped spread freedom and democracy throughout the world, even though he primarily concentrated on the well-being of the United States. Through all of the tough decisions he had to make, and all of the situations he had to overcome, Dr. King stuck to his morals and ethics. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 into a middle class family in Atla...
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North And South Abraham Lincoln
738 wordsCauses of The Civil War In 1861, most of the nations thirty-one million people lived in peace on farms and in small towns. Later on, they found this peace and trust in each other to be false, because the summer of 1861 brought on the most disturbing war America has ever faced, The Civil War. The Civil War was fought in more than 10, 000 places, from New Mexico, to Vermont. Over three million Americans fought in this war, and nearly 600 thousand men, 2 percent of Americas population died in it. W...
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Emily Dickinson Life After Death
1,365 wordsWith the thought of death, many people become terrified as if it were some creature lurking behind a door ready to capture them at any moment. Unlike many, Emily Dickinson was infatuated with death and sought after it only to try and help answer the many questions which she pondered so often. Her poetry best illustrates the answers as to why she wrote about it constantly. She explains her reason for writing poetry, ? I had a terror I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Buryi...
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Red Blood Cells Washington D C
1,157 wordsDr. Charles Richard Drew Dr. Charles Richard Drew was a pioneer as a medical physician who made a drastic contribution to the medical surgery practice called the blood transfusion. Even though he was the inventor of the procedure, he did not benefit from it financially and, ironically, died from not getting the very thing he invented. Charles Drew was born in 1904, in Washington, D. C. He was the eldest of five children, Elsie, Joseph, Nora, and Eva. Elsie was born when Charles was two, Joseph w...
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Fell In Love Side Of Paradise
712 wordsThe dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, and his mother, Mary McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a grocer in St. Paul. Both were from Catholic families. Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman fo...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
1,032 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Martin and Alberta King, were wonderful parents who raised Martin Jr. in a middle class, religious home. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a minister and Alberta was the daughter of an affluent minister. Martin was protected as much as possible from racism by his parents and they instilled in him a sense of self-respect and equality. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a strong, self- confident man who feared no one. He was...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
656 wordsNearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New World and put into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any other country that had ever practiced slavery, and ever since its prohibition, African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr. , would aid immensely in this fight. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr. Was a Baptist minister and also preached for civil rights. By the time he was 17 he h...
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Kill A Mockingbird Scout And Jem
1,163 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird was written in 1960 by Harper Lee. Lee is a native of Alabama. This book reflects some of the attitudes and actions that still take place today. I took into consideration the fact that I am an African-American living in the South that does not know a whole lot about my Caucasian counterparts. A girl named Jean Louise Scout Finch told the story. She was a six-year-old whose best friend was her only and older sibling, Jeremy. I noticed that Jeremy took out a lot of time with ...
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Characters In The Book Atticus Finch
571 wordsMiss. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Moroeville Alabama, where her father practiced as a lawyer and served as a state senator. She grew up as the youngest out of 4 children, and was the only one to pursue a literary career. She received her early education in public schools, and from 1945 - 1949 she attended University of Alabama, studying law. She moved to New York, without carrying out the requirements for her degree in law, and there worked as an airline reservation clerk. Sh...
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U S Troops Soviet Union
1,263 wordsKennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917 - 63), 35 th president of the United States (1961 - 63). Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917, the second son of financier Joseph P. Kennedy, who served as ambassador to Great Britain during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940, winning note with the publication of Why England Slept, an expansion of his senior thesis on Britains lack of preparedness for World War II. His own part in the w...
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