Tag Archives: freedom
Freedom riders
HALLELUJAH, I’M A-TRAVELING In nineteen fifty-four, The Supreme Court has said, Listen here, Mr. Jim Crow It’s time you were dead. CHORUS: Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling Hallelujah, ain’t it fine; Hallelujah, I’m a-traveling Down freedom’s main line. At Howard Johnson’s one … Continue reading
Release What you Know & Explore What you Don’t!
How intense does slavery and African American hardships during the 17th and 18th Centuries have to be described for people to grasp the true meaning of making a human into chattel? Slavery has been explained in many ways and underplayed … Continue reading
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves (Abraham Lincoln)
Both the reading and the website are presenting the same subject which is slavery. They are explaining the slaves’ life, how they were treated, what they had to do to obtain their freedom and the challenges they had to face … Continue reading
“Stick & Stones May Break Our Bones, But We Will Get Our Freedom”… and They Did!!!
Stated in the readings and the website, were information pertaining to slavery, covering who the slaves were, how they were treated and their reaction to their treatment. Homberger shares with us the ones who were brought into the City of … Continue reading
Liberty Kids
One group of American Revolutionary era patriots formed the Sons of Liberty, with an adjoining faction of Daughters of Liberty. They sought to protect colonists from British strongholds, and eventually captained the way towards many political upheavals that pioneered the … Continue reading
The Pole of Opposition
In celebration of the Stamp Act Repeal and to honor the King of England’s Birthday in 1766, New Yorker’s hoisted two poles which the festivities were held around. The symbolism of the two poles is unclear but in The Road … Continue reading
The Chains Are Broken
According to “The History Atlas of New York City” by Eric Homberger the British force were annihilated by the American troops on July 1779. After the final exodus of The British from New York in 1783, the city was in … Continue reading