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  - Social Studies School Service - 0 views

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      cparsley on 06 Nov 14
       
      who wrote it that was wrong?
  • "I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
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      cparsley on 06 Nov 14
       
      ?
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  • 1Actually, two black women and one black man.
  • After a year, the law was changed.
  • . It didn't work like that for Rosa Parks--not when you know the real details-
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      cparsley on 06 Nov 14
       
      didnt know that before class today
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      cparsley on 06 Nov 14
       
      shouldnt be fighting and crying over a bus seat, it was so wrong to be segregated
  • Rosa Parks was not the first woman in Montgomery to refuse to get out of her seat so a white man could be comfortable.
  • n a similar incident ten years earlier,
    • cparsley
      cparsley on 06 Nov 14
       
      nooope
  • her, fighting and crying,
  • Rosa less of a hero
  • and her husband too was fired from his job
  • black men in Montgomery, could not inspire a bus boycott,
  • all day that Monday the buses ran empty of blacks.
  • ne, creating 52,500 fliers that would be distributed over the weekend to churches, schools, bars, stores, and private homes.
  • all day that Monday the buses ran empty of blacks.
  • ne, creating 52,500 fliers that would be distributed over the weekend to churches, schools, bars, stores, and private homes.
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Elvis Presley's Musical Influence on America - For Dummies - 0 views

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  • Elvis combined different types of music to form a style called rockabilly, which became one of the key sounds in rock ’n’ roll.
  • To form this musical style, he fused the country-western music of the South with the rhythm and blues of African Americans and the pop music that dominated the radio and recording industries.
  • But, his version of this new music became widely popular during the mid-1950s. He
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  • During the 1950s, teenagers had begun to think of themselves as being different from their parents’ generation.
  • conomic prosperity of the period, teens enjoyed a disposable income that they could spend on themselves
  • dressed themselves in fashions
  • movies that featured stars
  • art of this new culture for teenagers.
  • Because his career went through so many changes, he was popular with different types of people for different reasons
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Elvis Presley 1953-1955 : The Hillbilly Cat - 0 views

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  • 18-year-old Elvis entering a recording studio in 1953 to cut two songs on an acetate disk at a cost of four dollars.
  • was owned and operated by Sam Phillips,
  • , Sam Phillips was known as Memphis' most important independent record producer.
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  • He had opened Sun Records in 1952 to record both rhythm-and-blues (R&B) singers and country-western artists.
  • talented R&B artists as Rufus Thomas and Junior Parker
  • Unfortunately, on the day that Elvis decided to stop by, Phillips was not there. His tireless secretary and assistant, Marion Keisker,
  • amboyant clothes and his long, slicked-back hair and engaged him in conversation.
  • Marion asked Elvis what kind of music he sang and who he sang like. His prophetic answer, 'I don't sound like nobody', piqued her curiosity, and while Elvis was singing 'My Happiness' by the Ink Spots for his acetate record, Keisker also taped him so Phillips could hear him later. Elvis' second song for the flip side of the acetate was another Ink Spots song, 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin'. The recording cost Elvis $3.98
  • Elvis dropped by 706 Union a number of times after that initial meeting to ask Ms. Keisker if she had heard of a band that needed a singer. In January 1954, he paid for a second personal record at the Memphis Recording Service.
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