.... to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was arrested and put in jail for sitting in the front of the bus. Four days after, the black people of Montgomery and the people from other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line. For 381 days blacks walked or arrange their own rides throughout the city rather than taking the bus. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , appointed spokesperson for the boycott talked about the importance of nonviolence by all participants. Thousands of courageous people joined toge .....

.... to enforce the fugitive slave law, and encourage a greater exodus of fugitive slaves from the South. (161,162 Perry) Douglass did not support this idea because it would not result in the complete abolition of slavery. Blacks deserved just as much freedom as whites. He believed that the South had committed treason, and the Union must rebel by force if necessary. Astonished by Garrison's thoughts, Douglass realized that abolition was truly a war between whites. Garrison, and many others, had failed to see the slaves as human beings. Were blacks then supposed to be irretrievabl .....

.... to build a reputation for himself, and at the tender age of twenty, wrote his first book, Oak and Ivy . At the age of twenty-one, while Dunbar was still working as an elevator boy at a local hotel, he received the welcomest news that he had ever heard. Dunbar received a personal invitation to recite some of his poetry at the 1893 Worlds Fair. While at the Worlds Fair later that year, Dunbar was introduced to Fredrick Douglass, who not only took Dunbar on as an employee, but as a student to his great legacy. At that point, Dunbar buckled down and got to work, he was soon publishing one .....

.... in Boston. They had four children named Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice. In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, King did marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. He boycotted buses in an effect to g .....

.... game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward to recess andafter school. Baseball was a big thing in Oklahoma. Everyone went to watch the kids play (Falkner 30). Mantle was one of the fortunate kids, he could throw and bat right and .....

.... the social contacts. Once he even tried to commit suicide. However, he overcame his feelings and fears and continued to compose music. By 1820, when he was almost totally deaf, Beethoven composed his greatest works. These include the last five piano sonatas, the Missa solemnis, the Ninth Symphony, with its choral finale, and the last five string quartets. In the fall of 1826 Beethoven caught a serious cold, which developed into pneumonia. He died on March 26, 1827. At the time of his death and even now Beethoven is considered one of the top classical composers of all times, maybe even the .....

.... that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked as court painter to the king. As a powerful republican David, upon being elected to the revolutionary Convention, voted for the king's death and for the dissolution of the Académie royale both .....

.... attention. George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University. After receiving a medical discharge from the U.S. Air Force, h .....

.... of his sharp views of society, he used humor and quick-witted satire to express his points. Mark Twain is essentially a satirical writer and a humorist. Twain as a writer, ridicules society in many aspects of American life through satire. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud to criticize American culture and its’ inability to put past injustices behind and forgive one another. It serves as a major point in the story in which he condemns society in a number of areas. The feud between the families has been going on for some thirty odd year .....

.... a teen swam the James river from Lundhams Wharf to Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe’s grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence from. In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct" (Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student r .....