Interview about civil rights

1.) What impact did the first televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy have on you and what major changes did it influence?

It made my father aware of what was going on, as it did the whole country.

2.) After the case of Brown vs. Board of Education came out, did you find that the school still had much segregation?

Yes, where we lived our town was still segregated, but other towns around us were not segregated. Some facilities were still segregated.


3.) How did martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech affect you?

I thought he was a very brave man and was sure he would get killed because at the time it seemed like if someone didn’t like you would be shot.

4.) What was it like to live through trying to desegregate school, public places, and giving everyone equal voting right?

At swimming pools, restrooms, playgrounds there were often fight over whether things should be segregated or not. At the park I saw 2 water fountains, one that had a sign above it that read Whites, and one with a sign above it that read Coloreds.


5.) Did you ever have an experience where there was violence on African Americans because of them refusing to give up their rights?

No.



6.) What was the country like when Kennedy was assassinated?

They were in complete shock, mourning, and despair, it was as if things had been frozen.


7.) In your opinion once Lyndon Johnson took office did the country fall, rise or stay the same?
He got money deficit going fast, he had a war to pay for, and there was a squeeze on consumer’s wallets.


8.) Did you believe in non-violent protests or violent protest?

I don’t think violence is the way to solve a problem and I think things get done a lot faster when there is no violence.

9.) How did the drafting of young men during the Vietnam War affect you?

I got married to be exempted from the draft, but they would not let you rush to get married so people would often go off and get married in Canada.

10.) How did the affect of 9/11 affect you?

At the time I was running a business and was force to get rid of all employees that I had, and move my business back home. It made things very hard to travel and most people were too shocked and scared to. It created an atmosphere of fear in the country It seemed like the government tried to play on the fear already created to try to control people.

Growing up

When you are little you think "I cannot wait until I am older and don't have to listen to my parents anymore, and I can drive" but what you don't think about is the consequences that come with growing up. When you first think about it sounds fun and it is at first but when you get farther in like after you start driving and your having so much fun that you don't even realize that you can't drive without buying gas. I remember when I first moved out I was so excited to have the freedom, but then you realize that along with freedom comes being responsible with many things such as money because if you spend it on junk you have nothing to pay rent with. So when I was little thinking about growing up was great, but accomplishing it wasn't so great, don't get me wrong I do love the freedom, but having someone to take care of you is fun too!

Boom, Bust, Recovery!

1.) Louis Armstrong- He was nicknamed Satchmo or Pops; he was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.



2.) Sacco and Vanzetti- They were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed by electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.



3.) Bootlegger- Someone that would hide alcohol in the boots during the prohibition period.



4.) Flapper- The term came from a new breed of young girls that wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz.


5.) The Negro league baseball- American professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans.




6.) Amelia Earhart- The first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a noted American aviation pioneer and author.



7.) Georgia O'Keeffe- A major figure in American art from the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.


8.) Bessie Smith- She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. She was often referred to as "The Empress of the Blues".



9.) Claude McKay- He was a Jamaican writer and poet, and in his early life he was a communist, but after a visit to the Soviet Union, he decided that communism was too disciplined and confining.



10.) Zora Neale Hurston- an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

1.) Herbert Hoover- the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and author.



2.) Stock market- A public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price. The stock market is one of the most important sources for companies to raise money.



3.) Shantytowns- small towns in the outskirts of many cities, especially in third world countries. Often were houses badly built with plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, cardboard or any available material just to keep the rain out.



4.) Hoovervilles- A more popular name for shantytowns that were built by the homeless, and named after the president at the time, Herbert Hoover.



5.) Soup kitchen- Where food is prepared and fed to the hungry or homeless for free or a small price. Most soup kitchens are located in poor neighborhoods and are run by volunteers.



6.)Dust bowl- was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. The dirty thirties were from 1930 to 1936.



7.) Bonus Army- An assemblage of some 43,000 marchers — 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932. Known as the Bonus Army and Bonus March by the news media.


8.) Great Depression’s effects on city dwellers- People became homeless, had little or no food or money. Many people living in a decent home had to move to a shantytown.



9.) Great Depression’s effects on rural lives- Peoples crops were not worth as much. Their farms were not in as good of shape because of the fact that they could not buy things to help them grow.



10.) Great depression- Most men were left jobless, homeless, hungry, and had no money due to all of the money spent on WWI. It this picture it shows that men are left with no jobs, but keep fighting to find new ones.

1.) Franklin D Roosevelt- He was the 32nd president and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. He was the only president that served more than two terms.

2.) Eleanor Roosevelt- She was the first lady and the 32nd president’s wife. She was a supporter of her husband’s The New Deal.


3.) New Deal- A list of programs Franklin D. Roosevelt created to bring the country out of a great depression.



4.) FDIC- A company that Franklin D. Roosevelt set up to insure that your money up to a certain amount is safe and if the banks fail you will get it back. This was one of the companies of the new deal.



5.) Social Security Act- Social Security is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).



6.) Motion pictures- The first motion picture camera was invented by Thomas Edison.



7.) Tennessee Valley Authority- Set up to provide jobs and better lives for people damaged by the great depression. A program made by Franklin D. Roosevelt to come back from the depression.




8.) National Youth Administration- A New Deal agency to help come back from the great depression.



9.) Workers Progress Administration- A New Deal program set up by Franklin D. Roosevelt to get people back into jobs and help the economy boost.



10.) Agricultural Adjustment Act- An act designed by the New Deal to help farmers get their stability back.