Cesar Chavez by Beommo

Cesar Chavez speech

By Beommo

 

Hola! me llamo Cesar Estrada Chavez. I was born in March 31,

1927 in Yuma Arizona.

 

I went to find schools but then I finally found one. I went to

School but I quit school in 8^th  grade to work in the farms.

Once I grew up I went to the navy to train. After I came back

I married a person named Helen fabela. Once we married we moved to a poor place called Sal Si Puedes.

 

 In Sal Si Puedes I became friends with this catholic person named Donald mcdonell. Donald told me that the customers were fighting about grapes so I had to make changes. Then a person named Fred Ross came to my house and told me to join in his community club. So I joined. I was getting good at organizing people so I became leader. When it was speaking time I said no violence and to stop eating grapes because farmers work too hard. I died 1993 April 23.

Abe Lincoln By Jada

Abe Lincoln

By Jada

 

          Hi, my name is Abraham Lincoln. I was born February, 12 1809.I died April ,15 1865 when I was 56. I married Mary Todd in 1842 when I was 21. I had many connections in my life and one of them was Ha

rriet Tubman who was a speaker too.
     I was elected the 16^th president of the United States of America in 1851 and reelected in 1854 . I had 4 children, one girl and two boys . my wife was very helpful. She helped me with my work .It was not easy being the president.

          In 1850 my little boy Eddie died I felt like worked to much. In one point of my life I was a lawyer and  elected to the United House of Representatives. I was assassinated by John Wilkes Both when I  was only 56 years old .Me and my wife were watching a play at the ford theater at 10:15 I was shot the next day I died.           

 

         

 

Eleanor Roosevelt by Elle

Eleanor Roosevelt

By Elle

 

Hello, I’m Eleanor Roosevelt. I was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. When I was a little girl I was really shy. When I was a little girl my parents, Elliot and Anna, died. Since I was 8 I lived with my grandma. I went to a school in England.

In 1902 I came back to New York. Three years later I married Franklin D. Roosevelt. I had 6 kids and became a teacher. In 1931 I became the First Lady. In 1942 the U.S. fights in World War II.

Franklin had polio and I tried to keep his spirits up. In 1945 he dies. I made a speech about human rights, civil rights, and peace to the world. In 1962 I died. In conclusion, they all called me the First Lady of the World. That was my life.

 

 

Jackie Robonson By Nolan

Jackie Robinson

By Nolan

          My name is Jackie Robinson. If you just sold my trading card you got $18,000. If you want to know why then listen to this. My trading card is worth $18,000 because I was the first African American to play on the white only Major Leagues and I was very good.

          I was born in Georgia in 1919. My family was very poor. Because I was so poor, I stole food from stores. I was able to go to college at UCLA where I became a sports star. I was the first person to play on four varsity teams; basketball, baseball, football, and track. I won an award for every sport I played.

          In 1942 I joined the U.S. army and after three years I was sent to play for the Kansas City Monarchs. It was a Negro league, which means that it only had black players. In 1947 I was asked to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African- American to play in the Major Leagues. Many people didn’t want me to play and they called me names and kicked me. But I was brave, played hard, and we ended up winning the pennant for the first time in six years.

ther's one thing I want you to remember and that’s that I was the first African American to play in the Major leagues.

 

         

      

 

Rosa Parks by Ishika

Rosa Parks

By Ishika

 

Hello! I’m Rosa Parks. My full name was Rosa Louise McCauley. I was born on February 14, 1913. My family grew up in Tuskegee Alabama. After my parents were separated, my mother, brother, and I moved to my grandparent’s farm in Pine Level Town. When I was in school, my mother got ill so I had to leave school to take care of her.         

After I married Raymond Parks, I went back to school to get my high school diploma. The city of Montgomery was segragated, and that meant the separation of black and white people. 

Raymond and I joined the National Advancement Association of Colored People because we wanted to do something about the separation. I got arrested on a bus by sitting in a white person’s seat.

After I got arrested, I refused to pay the $10 fine so I got sent to the Supreme court where I represented myself. Martin Luther King Jr. and I led the boycott for not going on the buses because we wanted to change the law about segregation.   The Supreme court finally declared that segregation was unlawful and was banned from the U.S. I died on October 24, 2005.

Thurgood Marshall By Michael

Thurgood Marshall

By Michael C.

 

          Hi, I am Thurgood Marshall. I was born in 1908 and went to a law school. So I became a lawyer and many years later I was asked to go on the Supreme Court and be a judge!

I am now on the highest court on Earth. I believed in Civil Rights for everyone.   

I retired in 1991 and died in 1993.  

 

 

 

 

Susan B. Anthony by Jocelyn

Susan B. Anthony

By Jocelyn

          I was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. My father Daniel ran a cotton mill. My mother Lucy raised eight children. My father was a Quaker. Quakers are people that treat men and women as equals. Outside the Quaker religion, women had none of these rights. Having been raised by my Quaker father, I believed that all people should be treated equally, but most people didn’t agree with me.

          I began to read and write at the age of three. I wanted to learn math, but the school master would not teach math to girls. So…… I taught myself.

          When I got older I was asked to be part of “The Women’s Rights Club”. Another leader with me was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Elizabeth and I wrote speeches together, we traveled many places and told our speeches sometimes together.

          One day when my sister, Guelma, and I read on the newspaper that it was time to register to vote. They decided to register even though women are not allowed to vote. They used the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to convince the election inspectors to let women register to vote.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens… The right of the United States shall not be denied or abridged, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery).”

The other women and I that voted got sent to trial for breaking the law.

I fought all my life for equal rights for women, even though I didn’t get to vote legally. Millions and millions of women got that right today.

I died on March 6, 1906, women got that right to vote 14 years later. Now everyone can vote thanks to Susan Brownell Anthony.