Two Jim crow laws.

ENTERTAINMENT
Alabama: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. (http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)
EDUCATION
North Carolina: School textbooks shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.(http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html)

A Letter with my Response on ''I Sat Where I Wanted to at the Movies''

I Sat Where I Wanted to at the Movies I'm a 45 year-old African-American female and I remember at the age of nine years, in a small town Jackson, Missouri. I spent the night with a family member and on Saturday we went to the movies. We paid for our tickets and I began to reach for the door of the movie theatre and was told by a relative, we can't go in that door; we have to enter through this door. I was then led to a side door and up a very dark, narrow set of stairs. I found myself sitting in the balcony of this movie theatre. The white children were seated below. To this day that memory is with me. I don't remember the movie, but I remember that as if were yesterday. I had never experienced anything like that before. I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and sat where I wanted to at the movies.Beverly PrinceIndianapolis, IN--------------------------------------------------------
I dont understand why people would waste so much of their own time and energy just splitting up each race through two diffrent doors to make their way in a movie theatre. The same places we go to now a days to relax, have fun and be yourself wasn't easy before, and not everyone realize's that. Also, the lady in the story mentioned that she remembers that day like it was yesterday, and to have a life-long bruise in your mind like that is cruel.

My response on the Lizzie poll

I felt scared for Lizzie and sorry for her too. Because shes still very young and trying her best to do the right thing even when it means leaving people back home."The sun rose high in the sky, and Lizzie fell asleep in fits and starts. She was already missing Saran and Grandma Dolly."(page 58) Although, running away could get her away from the plantation and the chaos of getting whipped from bringing someone water."It was what happened to her. She was free and a tired free, but it was free."(page 58)

My response on "What kind of man was Muhummad Bilal?"

I personally chose determined for Muhammad Bilal beacause he was the kind of person that knew who he was and knew what was right him.Even though he did get captured when he was 11 years old, sometimes he could stand up and say what would need to let out, without getting backed down. "But every morning he would get up and say 'I am a man!' Grandma Dolly used to tell the children in the days before they were old enough to go into the fields. 'I am a man' "

My 2 short Interesting Facts

1. that Vikings in Dublin were head of the world's largest slave market At the turn of the last millennium.

2. population in Africa was around 25 million. It may have been 46-53 million if slavery hadn't been instituted

My Gullah Customs and Traditions fact:

The Gullah diet is still based heavily on rice, reflecting the Rice Coast origins of many of their ancestors. Two traditional dishes are "rice and greens" and "rice and okra," similar to Sierra Leone's plasas and rice and okra soup. http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/05.htm