Within a day, George Starling made a decision to leave upon being threatened of being lynched as soon as he arrived to Penn Station( During this time period African Americans had to respect the law of "equal but separate" which was designed to give cars for blacks and whites.This was later to be known as a scheme to make it unfair for African Americans.With this law being in affect African Americans received No public accommodations. This accommodation included railway travel, and to ensure that no African Americans have an equal facilities as caucasian people would have.Another law was the Louisiana law which made it impossible for blacks to sit in coach seats reserved which was later discovered to be reserved by caucasian people, but on the conchair …show more content…
He was soon later able to find his way to his aunt’s apartment in Harlem, New York.Ida was able to obtain a good job and soon after that her family was able to move closer to her.Like driven traveling working familiesthey were also going to meet some wonderful people along the way as well as their beloved family member whom wanted to see how life was in the north. Her opportunity came to meet a new friend and rising legend in 1961 and that rising legend was none other then Ray Charles.( Raymond Charles Robinson,known to people and fans as as Ray Charles, known for being a singer, songwriter, musician, a role model to aspiring musicians, and also as a composer. he had two nicknames and those nicknames were "The Genius", and last but not least "The High Priest of Soul"), Ray Charles’ wife called Pershing. Pershing was uncontrolled with emotional outbursts when this situation occurred.Ray Charles had accidently fallen and sliced his hand on a glass table, Ray Charles wife didn't know how to handle the situation so she called Pershing . He was bleeding very much.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Ray Charles one of the greatest African-American artists of all time. He left a legacy of hits and Grammy awards, but the musicians he influenced were very diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded. Ray Charles died at the age of 73 on June 10, 2004 from acute liver disease. Months after his death on October 29, 2004 the movie Ray was released to the U.S on a budget of forty million dollars. The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning over $100 million dollars with an additional $75 million internationally. It ended up with a worldwide gross of over $175 million.
Ray Charles was born on September 23, 1903 to a very poor family. Although no birth record exists, his mother, Retha Robinson, dubbed him Ray Robinson, which he later changed so as to not be confused with Sugar Ray Robinson, a famous boxer (World Book 383). Ray Charles, or as everyone called him RC, was born to a mother only sixteen years old and she had another coming. By RC’s first birthday, his little brother George was born. “None was sure who George’s father was, but all remembered that Mr. Pit and Mis Georgia, who had no children of their own, adopted George to take the added burden off Retha”(Michael 7). While Retha was not able to watch over RC, he was cared for bye her friend Mary Jane, who was split up with her husband and had lost her son.
Segregation in itself is an issue of legality, but this case especially was an unfair One. When segregation was the law it was brought up in the courts because segregation itself may clash with the fourteenth amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" (Compton's 6). This amendment states that all people born or naturalized in the USA are citizens. This would mean that Blacks are citizens and have just as many rights as any other citizen, but white lawyers and court officials found ways around this. They said that being a citizen doesn't have anything to do with equal rights between different races (Tourolaw). "The judge at the trial was John Howard Ferguson, a lawyer from Massachusetts who had previously declared the Separate Car Act `unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states'. In Plessy's case, however, he decided that the state could choose to regulate railroad companies that operated only within Louisiana" (Virtualscholar1 1).
Freddie Steinmark was one of the toughest football players to ever play the sport. He was one of the smartest kids in his high school class. Freddie’s dad pushed him to be the best he can be. He had struggled with a mysterious pain in his left leg. Many people have battled the same disease as Freddie but not a single soul could deal with it the same way as Freddie.
In 1887, Jim Crow Laws started to arise, and segregation became rooted into the way of life of southerners (“Timeline”). Then in 1890, Louisiana passed the “Separate Car Act.” This forced rail companies to provide separate rail cars for minorities and majorities. If a minor sat in the wrong car, it cost them $25 or 20 days in jail. Because of this, an enraged group of African American citizens had Homer Plessy, a man who only had one eighth African American heritage, purchase a ticket and sit in a “White only” car on June 7, 1892.
In order to explain the life and accomplishments of George Boole’s life, the following questions had to be answered: Who was George Boole? What did George Boole have to do with mathematics? Did George Boole make any advances in mathematics? Who was in George Boole’s life? What all did George Boole accomplish in his life time?
Harlan once said, “But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The state of Louisiana passed a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. It was all based around accommodations being “separate but equal”, meaning that public facilities were split up by races but the place had to serve the same purpose. In 1892, Homer Plessy was one eighth African American and he took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car only for blacks and was arrested. I believe that this was unconstitutional because of the 13th and 14th Amendments.
Transportation was another area where blacks and whites were treated differently. The Montgomery, Alabama city code required that all public transportation be segregated. Almost 100 years after the Civil War, blacks had to sit separately from the whites. Seats could be assigned and blacks could be asked to give up their seats to white passengers. On December 1, 1955, Ro...
In 1892, the state of Louisiana enacted the Separate Cars Act, which required railways to provide separate cars for black and white passengers. Homer A. Plessy was a man who was seven-eighths caucasian, though the law still considered him African-American. The Committee of Citizens asked him to take part in a test case to challenge this law. He refused to move from his seat in the whites-only section of the train, and a detective hired by the Committee of Citizens detained him. They set up the case to get into the court, and hopefully overturn the Separate Cars Act.
Bill Caplan's life as a publicist began when his brother-in-law got him hired to work for his boyhood idol, former heavyweight champion Joe Louis.
At age 17 he set out on his own as a prospector and miner. Schieffelin began looking for gold and silver in about 1865. From Oregon, he went east to Coeur d'Alene, then searched across Nevada into Death Valley, back into Colorado and then New Mexico.[4]
“Listen to the MUSTN’TS child, listen to the DON’TS. Listen to the SHOULDN’TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS. Listen to the NEVER HAVES, then listen close to me- anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be” (Silverstein, Listen to the Mustn’ts). Shel Silverstein was a famous American poet, songwriter, musician, cartoonist, and screenwriter.. He illustrated his own pictures for his works of literature and enjoyed writing songs. Though most people don’t know him as a songwriter, musician, or screenwriter, many children and adults around the world enjoy his poetry today.
To illustrate Segregation did not allow African americans to eat with whites so and caused “Congress acted within its power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution in forbidding racial discrimination in restaurants”(Georgetown Law library). Oftentimes, as a result of their race, black people were forced to eat worse food than white people simply because of the color of their skin and this act helped change this. Because African Americans suffered from economic discrimination as well, they could not afford as large or healthy meals, this causes culture and humanity to change. Many Black people had to sit at the back of the bus and if no available space showed for the white people then the African americans would get kicked off the bus. African Americans began to protest this, including, “Rosa Louise Parks, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. She was arrested, fingerprinted, and incarcerated”(Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation). Rosa Parks not getting up when the bus driver told her to is a great example of the limited rights that African americans had before desegregation Impacting humanity by later allowing African Americans to ride the bus. Hence African Americans could not even eat in the same restaurant as whites until “The Court also
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” said Theodore Geisel. Geisel made the bad, happy. He never gave up when it got bad. Theodore Geisel is an inspirational author for kids. Geisel is a great American author, mostly known for his humorous poems. After taking a look at the life and work of Theodore Geisel, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author.