The First Non-violent Civil Rights Movement, by Robert

The first non-violent civil rights movement was led by an Indian named Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual leader of India. He led the people of India to independence for civil rights and freedom across the world because the British were taking over their country and land of India.

Gandhi’s first civil rights movement begin in the year 1893 in South Africa where Indians were struggling for  independence from the British Emprie and at that time Gandhi was a lawyer. Gandhi believed in non-violence when he was protesting against the British Empire. Whenever a Gandhi follower fought back during the civil rights movement, Gandhi would starve himself to death until his people quit fighting. The reason why he would starve himself is because Gandhi was a Hindu, which is a peace-promoting religion.

When the people were fighting back in the movement they were fighting in his name, but Gandhi didn’t like that at all, so he starved himself. It took at least 52 years for Indians to regain control over their country; it’s all thanks to Gandhi for the peaceful civil right movement that he had made. If wasn’t for Gandhi the British Empire might still control India.

Family History: Life Back in the Day, by Layne

I talked to my grandma about how life was when she was growing up. She said it was a lot different than how it is today. She talked about the changes in our society and how blacks started to be able to go to school with whites. She told me when she was in high school that there were only four blacks in the whole school. She thought they were very brave to come to that school. Another thing my grandma and I talked about was when she was a child she and all her siblings took the bus a lot, and she was around when blacks where able to sit anywhere on the bus.

Family Research: Back in the Day, by Tiffany

When I asked my grandma how things were during the Civil Rights movement when she was young, she said many different things. She said that it was sad that blacks and whites weren’t allowed to go to the same school and couldn’t  do anything together. There was people dying and acting crazy everyday . She said there were many different things going on.

It didn’t really bother her that blacks and whites didn’t go to the same school because she never went to school with them,  but she was so young she didn’t really understand what was going on. So she was unsure what was really going on besides what was on the t.v. and news.

She says she remembers when Martin Luther King Jr died it was all over  the t.v. and news. That was all you heard about she didn’t really know what to expect. After all that everything was starting to change: They  were slowly putting blacks and whites in the same school  just to see how each of them would react to each other. It wasn’t a good experience she says. Things got worse. There was no peace in schools and you couldn’t learn anything because there was so much stuff going on in the class.

Family History: Back in the Day, by Chris

About things in the past, my grandmother said that when she lived on a farm, there were always black people working in fields.  Some of them owned their own farms.  The African American people went to different schools separate from the white people.  If a black person went in a store, they would have to wait until the white people were served.  Black and white people had there own churches. 

When the black people worked on the farms, some of them were treated well, some were not.  Some of the black people worked in homes as servants.  My great, great grandpa had a black woman that stayed in the house as a servant.  Most of the black servants were real good cooks and, did a lot of baby sitting.  Most older black people were called “aunt” and “uncle” by the white children.  My grandmother lived next door to a black family; they were good neighbors and helped each of the white people in the community.  The black family had some deaths and the white people would go to the funerals and carry food to help the people.  My grandmother said it’s good the white and black people get along today.

The First Civil Rights Movement, by Robert

The very first civil right movement was invented by an Indian named Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was spiritual leader of India. He led the people of India to independence for civil rights and freedom across the world because the British were taking over their country and land of India. Gandhi’s first civil right movement begin in the year 1893 in South Africa where Indians were struggling for independence from the British Empire. At that time Gandhi was a lawyer.

Gandhi believed in non violence when he was protesting against the British Empire. When ever Gandhi follower fought back during the civil right movement, Gandhi would starve himself to death until his people quit fighting. The reason why he would starve himself is because Gandhi was a Hindu, which is a peaceful religion, When the people  were fighting back in the movement,  they were fighting in his name and Gandhi didn’t like that at all so that’s why he starved himself.

It took at least 52 years for Indian to gain control over their country; it’s all thanks to Gandhi for the peaceful civil right movement that he had made. If it wasn’t for Gandhi, the British Empire would still to control India.