Personal Narrative: The Black Girls Running Movement

She was aware of it happening, but she didn’t pay it too much attention at her age. Later on she gets involved by joining the Black Panther Party. Showing how people lived through theses changing times of the struggle not being a part of the major organizations. Going from segregated schools too integrated schools and slowly getting more rights as the years pass. Learning to live while being oppressed.

The show Girlfriends was written by a black woman and followed the lives of four black women. The cast of women on the show were diverse black women with different backgrounds, skills and flaws. I remember younger me admiring their beauty and their beautiful representation of sisterhood through friendship. Even though I wasn’t fully able to understand the show because it discussed things pass my knowledge as little girl , I was still inspired by the characters and wanted to be like them when I got older.

8-Steptima Poinsette Clark-Born on May 3rd,1898 in Charleston,South Carolina,Steptima is another african american woman who helped African american get the rights to vote. Her father had been born a slave. Both of her parent heavely encouraged her to get a good eduation. After attending public shool,she attended Avery Normal Institude,a private school for african americans. She tried to be a teacher,but since Charleston did not hire african americans to teach it`s public schools,so instead she became a teacher at South Carolina`s Johns Island in 1916.

Her life began as a struggle to obtain knowledge as an African-American female in the late 1800’s. Growing from an apprentice into a master she began educating the young and old into future teachers or physicians. Despite her already elevated literacy and nursing ability she still strived to further her intelligence. Much like how nurses and doctors go back to school to learn new practices; I believe Susan understood this need during her time as well.

It brought me closer to people with the same interests. I felt united with minority groups in my city and I met a top attorney from my state involved in this case, Mark O’Mara. I grew up learning important family values, such as perseverance and courage that I cherish and wish to bring into my career by practicing family

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other,” said Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman saved over 1000 slaves risking her life going back and forth. Later on, she works for the Union Army in the Civil War, and she was one of the first women to lead an armed expedition in the war. Harriet Tubman was a person who cared about other peoples’ freedom she helps free slaves and helps the Union army in the war. Harriet Tubman was a slave but after a while, she and her brothers left for Pennsylvania.

I magically picked up my sports shoes again, finally decided to continue my run. And when I finally went back to my team with Coach Chavez, I 'm even more determined that it 's indeed an unexpected luck for me to meet such an inspiring coach who led me to the eventual realization about myself, how I was encircled and almost suffocated by my narrow ego which I looked upon as wisdom. With her, I recognized that in the running towards one 's pursuit, only with the commitment and efforts to one 's utmost, victory could be achieved. And now, as I look up to those athletes, not only that I no longer detest their opinions, I too, join their camps, looking forward to run once again to my heart 's content, with the beginning

I still dedicated myself to the game as a teenager, striving to get better every day, not because I wanted to win, but because I cared about the game, I owed it to myself to play to the best of my ability. Even as the sport moved on, I got enjoyment out of it and continued to play, even without a league to play

Throughout centuries we as a country have gone through all sorts of changes and developed laws and acts that have now to this day benefited one another in a sense of equality for receiving the same amount of chance as the next individual. The history of nursing dates back as far as the early 1700’s, when the first general hospital opened. The African American history of nursing started in 1793 when the “Free African Society” was founded, they recruited free African American volunteers to care for the citizens when a shortage of nurses occurred due to the outbreak of yellow fever. During this time instead of being rewarded for their help, a publisher named Matthew Carey bashed the volunteers and perceived them as drunks and cheats in his 1794 pamphlet, “A Short Account of the Malignant Fever Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia with a Statement of the Proceedings that Took Place on the Subject in the Different Parts of the United States”. The Free African society was not damaged but rather gave a positive outlook on protestant nurses and was later then acknowledge for civil equality and citizenship, all thanks to their leaders Absalom Jones and Richard Allen for taking a stand and defending them in their

Freedom Summer was planned out a couple of months before the days of June because though June and March those were the days when Freedom Summer

It included the statement, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (CUNY). CUNY writes that the women wanted themselves to be included in the fifteenth amendment, along with African-Americans, but alas, their request was denied. It took a long time, but eventually, women got the right to vote in the nineteenth amendment in 1920

Over the past decades, from the 1800s until now, there have been so many influential African Americans in the world. African American who may have been the first black officer, doctor, nurse, or who may even have been the first black person to open up a school. These people have done wonders not only for their city but for the entire black community. Their actions have made young children inspired to do more with their lives. Because of these people, who fought for what’s right, children like me can be more than what we were told we could be.

After years of movements and protests the participants in the Civil Rights Movement were finally rewarded for their hard work when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was made. African Americans were not allowed to be kicked out of buildings or jobs deemed for whites only after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Stewart et.al.). Discrimination towards African Americans was finally coming to a close with this new law’s passage. The 1964 Civil Rights Act made sure that voting regulations allowing African Americans to vote were enforced worldwide (Stewart et. al.).

"My fervent prayer is that we will be able to share our witness in ways that will impact the Bishop 's Commission on the Future of the Church positively and contribute to the advance of God 's Kingdom among the people called Methodists globally," said the Rev. Keith Boyette, pastor of Wilderness Community UM Church in Spotsylvania, Virginia. "Those who choose to participate in this great endeavor will be better positioned I believe to embrace a fruitful future regardless of what ultimately occurs within The United Methodist Church." The WCA was formed in the backdrop of continuing divisions surfacing in UMC over the issue of same-sex marriage. "I am not sure leaders of the church know how serious what 's going on is," Dunnam said.

He is calling us to be light to the world and follow Jesus. One of the easiest ways to follow Jesus in America is to love one another. This is one of the most important commandments God gives us. We are called to show love to those who don’t deserve it, and those who do not know the kind of love God offers. We need to see Jesus for the miracle worker, carpenter, and passionate human.