freedom is never free
Dylan Benson
Ms.Pierson
English1- 4th
17 April 2013
Freedom is never free
Sometimes in our lives, freedom isn’t free. Martin Luther King Jr. said “freedom is never voluntary given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Marches, Sit in’s, and the bus boycotts.
The first topic to prove the quote is true is with marches, Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders Sunday in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers 48 years ago. There was a photojournalist named Leonard Freed, he had a book out of all the marches that happen, the book is named "This Is the Day: The March on Washington".
The next topic I want to talk about is the Sit in’s, the sit in’s stated that colored people cant be severed at a only white places. The first sit in happen On February 1, 1960, with Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, Jr., they walked into an F.W. Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina, purchased some school supplies, then went to the lunch counter and asked to be served. They knew they probably would not be. The four freshmen at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College were black, and this lunch counter was segregated. Still, as one of the students told UPI, "We believe, since we buy books and papers in the other part of the store, we should get served in this part." When they were forced to leave as the store closed, they still had not been served.
The last one topic I want to talk about is the bus boycotts where blacks tried to ride the bus, but when white people get on the blacks have to move of go to jail, like what happen to most of them. They were tried of being told to move because of a white man wanted their seat the they were sitting in. the most famous one is with rosa parks other one like Willis Reed, 88, publisher of the Baton Rouge Post, now takes a seat at the front of the bus
Ms.Pierson
English1- 4th
17 April 2013
Freedom is never free
Sometimes in our lives, freedom isn’t free. Martin Luther King Jr. said “freedom is never voluntary given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Marches, Sit in’s, and the bus boycotts.
The first topic to prove the quote is true is with marches, Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders Sunday in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers 48 years ago. There was a photojournalist named Leonard Freed, he had a book out of all the marches that happen, the book is named "This Is the Day: The March on Washington".
The next topic I want to talk about is the Sit in’s, the sit in’s stated that colored people cant be severed at a only white places. The first sit in happen On February 1, 1960, with Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, Jr., they walked into an F.W. Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina, purchased some school supplies, then went to the lunch counter and asked to be served. They knew they probably would not be. The four freshmen at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College were black, and this lunch counter was segregated. Still, as one of the students told UPI, "We believe, since we buy books and papers in the other part of the store, we should get served in this part." When they were forced to leave as the store closed, they still had not been served.
The last one topic I want to talk about is the bus boycotts where blacks tried to ride the bus, but when white people get on the blacks have to move of go to jail, like what happen to most of them. They were tried of being told to move because of a white man wanted their seat the they were sitting in. the most famous one is with rosa parks other one like Willis Reed, 88, publisher of the Baton Rouge Post, now takes a seat at the front of the bus