Thanksgiving Day

I met an unexpected guest this thanksgiving who was Brooks, Derrick. His house was off the chain, I will give you a little description about him and his life. Personal Information
Born Derrick Dewan Brooks on April 18, 1973, in Pensacola, FL; son of Gerri Brooks; married Carol; children: Brianna, Derrick Jr., DewanEducation: Florida State University, BA, 1994, MA, 2001.
Career
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, linebacker, 1995-.
Life's Work
Derrick Brooks is best well-known as the powerful and fast linebacker that helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win their first Super Bowl in 2002. He has won awards for his play on the field including defensive MVP awards and numerous Pro-Bowl appearances. Yet Brooks is also known off the field for his work in the Tampa Bay community. With his Brooks Bunch, a group of inner-city children who he works with through the Ybor City Boys and Girls club, Brooks is teaching children the value of education as well as showing them the opportunities and wonders that the world has to offer. Brooks and the Brooks Bunch have traveled everywhere from the Grand Canyon to South Africa, and Brooks' focus is always on teaching the children about history and the different cultures that they encounter. Many people wonder how Brooks can show so much energy and commitment on the football field and still give his all to helping people off the field. But as Brooks told the ESPN website, "That's who I am. I come here to do a job and be a winner. When I'm away from here, I think the Lord has put me in a position to help others."

The March on Washington, August 1963

In 1962, dissatisfaction had become prevalent in black communities throughout the U.S. The African American unemployment rate was double the rate of whites and major civil rights reforms had not yet been achieved. Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, proposed the idea of a march "for jobs and freedom."
This, however, was not the first time that Randolph had this idea. Many years earlier in 1941, Randolph had used the idea for a march on Washington to bring about change for blacks. He had given President Franklin Roosevelt an ultimatum: If Roosevelt failed to adequately address the issue of federal employment discrimination in the defense industry, a demonstration involving 100,000 blacks would ensue. Roosevelt was quick to respond with the creation of the Fair Employment Practice Committee. The march was halted.

Four Little Girls

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1. The girls killed were 11 year old Denise Mcnair and three 14 year olds:Cythia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins.
2. Bomb was by thr Ku Klux Klan
3. They were in the basement dressing room
4. The bombing took place at sixteenth street fist baptist church
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1. who was responsible for the bomb
2. how many other people were hurt
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1. Robert Chambliss
2. 28 other people where hurt

School Desegregation in Boston, 1974

This study of the reaction to forced busing in Boston (Massachusetts) that emerged in 1974 illustrates the persistence of race and class discrimination and the counterproductiveness of some imposed solutions. It is focused on white antibusing groups and the complexities of opposition to busing. Racism is essential to understanding the Boston response, but it is not the sole explanation of the resistance to court-ordered desegregation. Nor was the antibusing response a simple manifestation of class conflict, although that undoubtedly played a role. The situation in Boston is examined from its beginnings in the late 1960s and early 1970s through its winding down in the 1980s. The experiences of Boston, and those of school desegregation plans in general, show that partial remedies and remedies that are aimed only at less-affluent Whites are doomed to failure. What has worked best are plans with clear legal requirements consistently enforced by the courts, plans that do not leave out sectors of the population or allow escape over political boundaries. Five tables in the text and three in an appendix of citizen-survey results present findings about public opinion.

Riots in Florida, 1980

There are a great many phrases you can use to describe greater Miami, but “racially harmonious” would not be one of them. From the days of employment identification cards required for people of color to get into Miami Beach, to near-riots over a civic language ordinance, there has always been racial tension in Dade County. And while racial and cultural issues still remain a major concern in 21st century South Florida, never were our problems more evident than in the late spring of 1980. The Miami race riots (also known as the Arthur McDuffie Riots) of May 1980 were the first major race riots after the end of the civil rights movement. The Miami Black community, long abused and neglected by civic leaders who, among other things, placed I-95 straight through the cultural center of their neighborhoods, was getting angrier by the day. Recently arrived Latin and Haitian immigrants were taking jobs and social benefits that had traditionally belonged to Blacks. Cuban refugees wielding money and power were beginning to take control of the city, and as such were awarding minority contracts and jobs to Cubans instead of African-Americans. This, combined with the continuous poverty and degradation of their neighborhoods, had Miami’s Black community ready to snap.

Blacks Define Themselves, 1964-1972

It’s a privilege and an honor to be in the white intellectual ghetto of the West. This is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and we’ll never be caught up in intellectual masturbation on the question of Black Power. That’s the function of the people who are advertisers but call themselves reporters. Incidentally, for my friends and members of the press, my self-appointed white critics, I was reading Mr. Bernard Shaw two days ago, and I came across a very important quote that I think is most apropos to you. He says, "All criticism is an autobiography." Dig yourself. Ok.This was period of powerful and creative social activism for African-Americans, and Howard University was one of its centers. The university had been the site of the NAACP's preparations and moot court arguments for the pivotal Brown v. Topeka Board case before the Supreme Court in 1954, and there was a strong human rights tradition among the faculty and student body.

Maynard Jackson: First African American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

The election of Maynard Jackson, who has died of a heart attack aged 65, as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1973 was a major landmark in the southern US city's history.

It signposted a change of guard in the local political class from white to black; no white person has since been elected mayor. Jackson, who served three terms in office, was a prominent exponent of affirmative action. In his first two terms, he rattled Atlanta's old cosy business relationships, alienating some, but wooing them back in his third term with deft deal-making skills. In 1978, he signed a law requiring 25% of the city's projects to be set aside for minority firms. The policy, which still operates today, made Atlanta the most hospitable place in America for black entrepreneurs. He also pushed through an affirmative action programme that made it mandatory for contractors to take on minority-owned businesses as partners, and forced the city's major law firms to hire African-American lawyers. He threatened that "tumbleweeds would run across the runways of Atlanta airport" if blacks were not included in city contracts.