BLACK HISTORY MONTH

BLACK HISTORY - Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) center for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama, that was the site of a 1963 bombing that killed four African American girls.

BLACK HISTORY - Ruby Bridges was born in Mississippi She grew up in a very poor family. When she was at the age of 4 Ruby and her family moved to New Orleans.When Ruby was old enough to attend school the judge ordered Ruby to go to the Frantz Elementary School for whites only. Ruby was the first black child to walk into Frantz Elementary School to attend the first grade. One day When Ruby was walking into school she stopped and said a prayer.This turned into a daily routine for Ruby.

BLACK HISTORY - Montgomery Bus Boycott year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States declaring segregated seating on buses unconstitutional.

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BLACK HISTORY - Sit-Ins African American student protest movement in 1960 in which black students occupied "white-only" lunch counters and other segregated public institutions throughout the South to protest segregated seating .

BLACK HISTORY - King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) African American man and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice.

BLACK HISTORY - The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.

BLACK HISTORY - Underground Railroad
You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek.

BLACK HISTORY - Ali, Muhammad or Clay Cassius (1942- ) African American heavyweight prizefighter, antiwar protester, and international ambassador of goodwill. As the dominant heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, Muhammad Ali won an Olympic gold medal, captured the professional world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions, and successfully defended his title 19 times. Ali's extroverted, colorful style, both in and out of the ring, heralded a new mode of media-conscious athletic celebrity. Through his bold assertions of black pride, his conversion to the Muslim faith, and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (1959-1975), Ali became a highly controversial figure during the turbulent 1960s. At the height of his fame, Ali was described as "the most recognizable human being on earth."

BLACK HISTORY:
Rosewood Case, one of the worst race riots in American history, in which hundreds of angry whites killed an undetermined number of blacks and burnt down their Florida community. more

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Civil War The war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, took more than 600,000 lives but brought freedom to 4 million African American slaves. more

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Poetry by Northover
Oh Africa, let freedom reign - Oh Africa, let freedom reign Rain down a storm On the white man's home, Let him see that God Is watching over all. Let the thunder clap its hands Together we will stand Hand in hand one and all Africa more

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Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley African American civil rights activist, who is often called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. more