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Interpretation of Mock Orange, by Louise Gluck
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Bea Jenkins: Brave and Persistent Civil Rights Activist Many people, black and white, participated in the non-violent resistance to racial segregation in post-war America. Civil disobedience such as marches and boycotts received national attention through television, newspaper and radio reports. Equal voting rights, equal job opportunities, and desegregation of schools were what African Americans and other civil rights activists were hoping to attain during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Under the law, the persistence to resistance has paid off as blacks and whites currently have equal opportunities. Some of the best known civil rights activists, such as Bob Moses or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. played an extremely significant role as leaders through the movement. However, there were thousands of others, who remain unknown, but have had crucial impact on the way our nation is run today. Bea Jenkins was born in Sardis, Mississippi, on December 15, 1918, to landowners who farmed their own land. Growing up in Panola County, Mississippi, Bea walked five miles a day to her one-roomed elementary schoolhouse, and returned home to help her five brothers and sisters farm their parent’s land. She worked on the farm raising pigs, turkeys, corn, sorghum, cane, cotton, peas and greens. While she was still young, Bea married a man named Clyde Johnson and had a son named Eddie Johnson. Shortly after Eddie was born, Clyde passed away. Bea remarried twice after Clyde, but both of her husbands eventually passed away, leaving Bea a widow. However, Bea was married to her third husband Louis Jenkins for many years, and in 1953 they moved to Holmes County, in Durant, Mississippi.
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Title: Interpretation of Mock Orange, by Louise Gluck
Words: 1314
Rating: None
Pages: 5.3
submitted by: mandajane8
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