Montgomery College

Dream Still Remembered Per the Howard Gottieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. On the 15 January 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1948. In 1954 he accepted a job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, during his sermons he would often encourage his congregation to get involved in community and social matters, speaking about the importance in voting. In 1955 Martin Luther…

May 14th, 1961, a date that marked the start of one of the most important movements that occurred in the Civil Rights Movement, the Freedom Rides. Seven African Americans and six whites left on a bus from Washington D.C. that was bound for the deep south (CORE,2014). Their goal was to test the supreme court ruling of the legal case Boynton v. Virginia 1960, which declared that segregation in interstate buses and railroad stations was unconstitutional (CORE,2014). The Freedom Rides were so…

served 24 years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Avista Adventist Hospital, in Louisville, Colo. John received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Walla Walla College in 1980, and his master 's degree in Health Administration from Loma Linda University in 1982. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has the academic credentials needed for the task; however, does he have the traits needed to be successful in achieving these tasks; • maintain…

moved to Montgomery, Alabama, She attended High School there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. Sadly when she reached the 11th grade, she had to leave to care for her sick grandmother. After her grandmother passing shortly after her mother got chronically ill. In 1932, things started to look…

Today we have chosen our topic to be Rosa Parks, an amazing hero in our Earth’s history. Rosa Parks wasn’t only a hero she was also a strong leader and a great person. Rosa Parks was an african american that took a stand by sitting down on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa took a stand for equal rights for african americans and white people. Not only did she give hope to people that needed it she also gave courage to people that didn’t believe. Rosa gave hope to many people and this is her…

Have a you ever heard of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Well, Martin Luther King Jr. was one leader involved. I once met Martin Luther King Jr, who is great with speaking; he inspired me and others by standing up for what he believes in. We met in a huge office in Montgomery, Alabama when I was being interviewed to be Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal assistant. Our first interview is 1, 1955. I don’t have much time because they are planning to start the boycott on December 5,1955. I need to go…

making me want to stop and rest. Many of us have been walking for quite awhile, and so we plan to be walking to Montgomery for about 5 days. The other day when we started to march downtown near the white stores, I felt many people staring at me, specifically whites, but I still kept my head up high. Dr. King plans for all of us to meet up at the white people’s courthouse in Montgomery to fight for our rights. Once we got there, we stood there and stood on our knees. When old man Banks couldn’t…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was not as instantaneous as you may think. There were more people arrested, violent approach of the white people to stop the boycott, and much more. The Montgomery Bus Boycott didn’t start off with just Rosa Parks getting arrested, there were at least a dozen more before her, in Montgomery alone. Rosa Parks was not really the reason why the boycott was started. They chose Rosa, over the two arrested a week before her, becauseshe was a better candidate then they were.…

normal for blacks to sit in the back while whites sat in front on busses. If the bus filled, the front-most row of blacks would have to stand to allow the next white passenger to sit. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in attempt to reduce racial segregation and inequality for blacks in the South. As alternatives to riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools; some people…

born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. The author characterizes Rosa Parks as rebellious young black women since she was a child growing up in Montgomery, Alabama with high interests in political and social rights. As a young girl, Rosa McCauley (Rosa’s name before marriage) attended a private all black women school called Miss White’s Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. There, students were taught to become independent women who believe that they are no different…