February, is Black History Month. This seems like a misnomer since African-American history is intertwined with all of Human history. Nonetheless, here is a short display and tribute to those who have struggled for freedom and recognition..
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This is a slide show, lasting around 20-25 minutes if gone through continuously. Contains things about Nelson Mandela and his part in the South African Apartheid, Carter G. Woodson (founder of Black History Month) and Martin Luther King Jr. and how he helped the USA earn equality in the country. The clip for the I have a Dream speech will be at the bottom of this description.
Best for RE lessons, but can also be helpful in History Lessons. Furthermore, it can be used as a basis of biography writing in English. But can be used freely!
To play the speech, you'll have to go to the very start of the presentation, turn up the volume and press the play button at the bar where the left and right controls are. Listen, keep listening. And I'm sorry about this whole thing. I'll remove it soon and put in a hyperlink leading to another presentation, I promise this one will have the words. But for now, you'll have to stick with this. Sorry!
Thanks anyway!
February, is Black History Month. This seems like a misnomer since African-American history is intertwined with all of Human history. Nonetheless, here is a short display and tribute to those who have struggled for freedom and recognition..
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MUST READ!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
This is a slide show, lasting around 20-25 minutes if gone through continuously. Contains things about Nelson Mandela and his part in the South African Apartheid, Carter G. Woodson (founder of Black History Month) and Martin Luther King Jr. and how he helped the USA earn equality in the country. The clip for the I have a Dream speech will be at the bottom of this description.
Best for RE lessons, but can also be helpful in History Lessons. Furthermore, it can be used as a basis of biography writing in English. But can be used freely!
To play the speech, you'll have to go to the very start of the presentation, turn up the volume and press the play button at the bar where the left and right controls are. Listen, keep listening. And I'm sorry about this whole thing. I'll remove it soon and put in a hyperlink leading to another presentation, I promise this one will have the words. But for now, you'll have to stick with this. Sorry!
Thanks anyway!
Celebrating independently minded women in americaTimeless Pearl
From early on, women fought for their rights – whether it was to own land, to give girls the opportunity for a good education, or for equal rights in the workplace. Here are some women who stand out in history
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MR. SWOPE
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The Train from Hate by John Hope Franklin
The noticeably embrace author and educator whom was born on January 2, 1915, in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. Where he eventually attended Harvard University, earning his master's degree and later his doctorate in 1941. He, like his dad and mom, confronted numerous racist, segregation causing great limitations for his craft, but remained decided to pursue his career pursuits. John Hope Franklin was an American historian of the United States and previous president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association (John Hope Franklin, Apr 2, 2014).
John Hope Franklin changed into an incredibly esteemed historian and author, appreciated for his scholarship that targeted on Southern history and racial politics (Biography.Com Editors, April 2, 2014). John Hope Franklin’s mother became a schoolteacher despite of the struggles that were endured, and Franklin leaned to read and write at an early age sitting in on her lessons. He went later to attend Fisk University, with the aim of following in his father's footsteps and analyzing law, but as an alternative turned to history, being mentored with the aid of Theodore S. Currier. While finally attended Harvard University, first achievements, his master's and later his doctorate in 1941. He, like his parents, faced several racist, segregation-primarily based barriers, yet remained determined to pursue his career interests (Biography.Com Editors, April 2, 2014).
In 1947 Franklin wrote his first noticeable selection call From Slavery to Freedom, a story involving his passion against racism. The tale deals with black records that later became a globally disbursed, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. It is credited as paving the manner for the introduction of African-American studies as a area, at the same time as Franklin has maintained that he has always been a historian of the South as opposed to completely managing race segregation over the years(Biography.com Editors, April 2, 2014). The tale From Slavery to Freedom is story of African Americans that are broadly taken into consideration to be the maximum authoritative, definitive, and comprehensive debts of African American records. The article lines the records of African Americans from their origins in Africa, to their experiences as slaves in the Western Hemisphere, styles of migration and demographic adjustments, in addition to the persevering with struggle for racial equality in the United States (John Gartrell, March 6, 2015).
Franklin was extremely motivated in the Civil Rights Movement as well, though taking care to split his activism from his objectivity as a historian. He worked with landmark cases like Lyman Johnson v. The University of Kentucky and Brown v. The Board of Education and participated inside the 1965 balloting rights march that commenced in .
This Women's History Month, The Wright Museum is celebrating women who are "Beyond Strong." From politics, to education, to civil right and a hand full of "firsts," click through this gallery to find out about black women leaders you may or may not know.
*The Wright Museum does not own the rights to any of the images used in this document.
3. American women’s history has been full of pioneers women who fought
for their rights ,worked hard to be treated equally and made great
strides in fields like science , politics ,sports , literature and art.
These are just a few of the remarkable accomplishments that historians
not to mention people across the US celebrate.
4.
5. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 –
October 24, 2005) was an African-American. In 1955
her single act of modest defiance set in motion the
movement of the modern Civil Rights
Movement. Known as “the first lady of civil rights”,
Parks gave African American leaders an opportunity to
test the constitutionality of Montgomery, Alabama’s bus
segregation laws and so many other laws around the
country.
6. C lara B arton was born December 25, 1821. A
American, teacher, nurse and humanitarian best known
for organizing the American Red Cross. Known as the
“Angel of the Battlefield,” Barton worked tirelessly
during wartimes to provide resources to soldiers,
searching for missing prisoners and established an
agency during the American Civil War to distribute
supplies to wounded soldiers.
7. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011)
was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of
the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew
Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA)
technique. She was the second American woman to be
awarded the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine
after Gerty Cori.
8. Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 –
September 6, 1966) The American birth control activist,
educator and nurse, Sanger opened the first birth
control clinic in the United States and helped people
see the importance of family planning in social
progress. She was responsible for Planned Parenthood
and contributed efforts to legalize contraception in the
US.
9. Eileen Marie Collins (born November 19, 1956
in Elmira, New York) is a retired NASA astronaut and a
retired United States Air Force colonel. A former
military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first
female pilot and first female commander of a Space
Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work.
Colonel Collins has logged 38 days 8 hours and 10
minutes in outer space. Collins retired on May 1, 2006
to pursue private interests, including service as a board
member of USA
10. Helen Keller : As the first blind and deaf person to earn
a Bachelor of Arts degree, Keller exceeded expectations
and graduated from Radcliffe with honors. She went on
to become a prolific author, political activist and
lecturer around the world with one of the most
inspirational stories in American history.
11. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 –
March 13, 1906 . A leader of the women’s
movement in the late 1800’s and American civil
rights leader, Anthony devoted her life to the
abolition of slavery and then to women’s equality.
After introducing women’s suffrage into the US, she
was arrested in 1872 for illegally casting her ballot in
the presidential election, encouraging other women
followed in her footsteps and stand up for
Fourteenth Amendment rights.
12. Abigail Adams : Wife of President John Adamsand
mother of President John Quincy Adams, Abigail
Adams was one of the most influential first ladies in
the history of the United States. Her intellectual
knowledge on government, politics and women’s
rights made her a revolutionary woman.
13. Oprah Winfrey (Born in January 29, 1954) is an
American , talk show host, actress and a producer.
Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-
winning talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which
was the highest-rated program of its kind in history
and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She
has been ranked the richest African-American of the
20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in
American history and was for a time the world's
only black billionaire. She is also, according to some
assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
14. Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in
Chicago, Illinois. She married Bill Clinton in 1975. She
served as first lady from 1993 to 2001, and then as a
U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009. In early 2007, Clinton
announced her plans to run for the presidency. During
the 2008 Democratic primaries, After winning the
national election, Obama appointed Clinton as
secretary of state. She was sworn in as secretary of
state in January 2009—becoming the first woman to
serve in a president's cabinet—and served in that
position until 2013.
15. Michelle Obama was born on January 17, 1964 in
Chicago, Illinois. She attended Princeton University,
graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a
law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.
Following law school, she worked at a Chicago law
firm, where she met her husband, President Barack
Obama. The couple married on October 3, 1992. As
first lady, she has focused her attention on current
social issues.