Just like a tree that's standing by the water, we shall not be moved. We remember singing that song while attending Clarendon school district 1 in Summerton, SC. Hello, my name is Sabrina H. and I am a graduate of the historic Scott's Branch High school. In recent news specials on the Br...

Chapter Eight is an interesting chapter because it looks at how the civil rights movement affected two northern cities, Detroit and Chicago, and illustrates the "tensions and differences" between whites and blacks at the time. It also shows how there were racial tensions outside the South,...

Birmingham is a place rich in African American history. Great people like Martin Luther King, Jr., reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, and countless others came together to strengthen the Civil Rights Movement in this place. Countless numbers of African Americans died for equal rights. One such event to...

"The mind is a terrible thing to waste." This is a quote from the infamous Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ever since the civil rights movement in the 1960's, African-Americans are now becoming more motivated to move up in society rather than to stay in the position they were in, which w...

The fight for equality has been ongoing since the creation of the United States. Between the 1960s and 1990s this conflict grew to be such a nation wide problem that the government has had to intervene and create laws to prohibit different types of discrimination. Women were fighting for equality in...

In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and it's ideals struck a chord with blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. The Panthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government. They instituted many cont...

Cointelpro The United Sates Federal Bureau of Investigation put together a counterintelligence program or "Cointelpro" to investigate and disrupt political dissent within the United States. Cointelpro operations targeted organizations that were thought to have politically radical movem...

Who is Gary Soto? The great Gary Soto is a well-known "Chicano writer", the word Chicano means "Mexican-American", a slang word they use to describe themselves and their culture. Soto is talented poet as well as writer; he has created many short stories, novels, and scripts ( ...

COMING TO AGE IN MISSISSIPPI REPORT As I was reading Coming of Age in Mississippi written by Anne Moody published in 1992 tears began to fall from my eyes. Anne Moody was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi on September 15, 1940. She Attended Nachez Junior College on a basketball scholar...

When documentaries are filmed, produced, and then viewed, the audience is left with more knowledge and awareness than before having watched it. When I watch a National Geographic documentary on exploitation of indigenous peoples, I become aware of their situation and further understan...

In 1964 the nation was faced with the civil rights movement. It captured the attention of Americans and showed signs of hope and progress. Mississippi Burning illustrates the civil rights battle that the nation was facing at this time. The film follows the story of Anderson and Ward, 2 FBI agents...

After reading Ismael I was intrigued by some of the thing that he said. For instance, "What you do is to teach a hundred what I've taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That's how it's always done." I think that he is trying to get the point across that ev...