List/Grid Monthly Archives: August 2011
Gettysburg Address & I Have a Dream
President Lincoln used the Declaration of Independence to prove his point that slavery went against the very fabric of America. He used the phrase during the Gettysburg Address: Four score…
The Death of Rosa Parks
Civil Rights pioneer, Rosa Parks born in Alabama February 4, 1913 dies at age 92. News stations from around the world reported that on October 25th 2005, the woman who…
16th Street Church Bombing
The story headlined in most major newspapers around the country on September 16th 1963 a Bomb had gone off at the 16thstreet Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church was…
Six Dead After Church Bombing
September 16, 1963 Birmingham, Sept. 15 — A bomb hurled from a passing car blasted a crowded Negro church today, killing four girls in their Sunday school classes and triggering…
Martin Luther King: 1968
In 1968, America was feeling the heat of civil unrest, much of which was a reaction to the civil rights movement. The idea of blacks being brought into racial…
