Sunday, November 10, 2013

African Americans


      Hello my friends, I am Back!!!!!
     Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Mr. A Lincoln.These are some of  the many people that helped black people to who they are today. 
Martin LutherKing Jr. wanted nothing but peace. He fought not with his fists but with his words for black people. When they kept white people and black people apart it was called segregation.Martin had a sister her name was Willie Christine.His parents never argued. Martin's family were sharecroppers. Martin's best friend was a white person when they started school his father told him they could no longer see each other. Martin became a minister just like his father. On June 18th 1953 Coretta  and Martin were married.On February 18th 1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn as the president of the confederate states of  America.In April 1865 the north won the civil war and now I know those days Martin's dream should have been granted long before it was. Now thanks to Martin Luther King Jr. and others like him there are black people in my school that are my friends. 






       Rosa Parks also helped black people once when the bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white person.Then when Rosa Parks refused they arrested her. Though she has inspired many people to stand up to what they believe in.




      Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, and I think that he led black people to freedom.That's one of the reasons that he is my favorite person in History.














     
     Without the people that had help African Americans slavery would still exist today and we all wouldn't be consider equal. Back then all the black people should be treated as equals just like everybody else. That's why I think people should stand for what they believe and always fight for their dreams, one day they will come true. 


Saturday, November 9, 2013

...to continue my trip to DC on day 2 and 3



Well I'm back.  We're on the second day now so the first thing we did was that my family and I went to the kite festival around the Washington monument there were many different colors,shapes,and sizes.











After that we walked to the National museum of American History, we saw interisting and important things about some of the american history it was fun. There was this lady talking about how African Americans had to go to different restaurants as white people. She said that 4 students went to a whites only food counter and asked for some coffee, when asked to leave they refused, this protest was called a "sit-in" and inspired more African American across the south to do the same.
Conestoga wagon was the transportation
 method used by early colonists. 
old train





I was listening carefully to the whole story 


After that we went to the air and space museum, we spend to much time there because my sisters were feeling sick and most of the interactive exhibition were closed. But we still ate lunch there, and this was my second time at this museum. We got back to the hotel and this the end of the second day.