now, the brawl on the docks of alabama s riverfront park in montgomery, as several black men came to the rescue of a black river boat captain who was assaulted by a group of white people after they refused to move their pontoon. the viral moment spurred thousands of memes, songs, and collective black joy. but why? montgomery was the first capital of the failed confederate states of america. it was once one of the largest slave trading communities in the country. commerce street, where the enslaved operated from what is now known as riverfront park to the slave market was named that for a reason. the city of montgomery in the state of alabama were early focal points of the civil rights movement. it s where rosa parks refused to yield her seat to a white man. it s where martin luther king junior s house was bombed. and it was 50 miles west in selma where a young john lewis and josé williams lead 600
Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865. In the decades prior to 1860 there had been developing a steadily increasing bitterness between the Northern and Southern sections of the United States. These disputes gave rise to a fundamental disagreement about the rights of individual states and sparked diverging views about the meaning of important parts of the Constitution. While many economic,
that is enough for parents or anyone in the public to find that is inappropriate and file a complaint. what are your biggest concerns? well. it prevents teachers from doing their job. if your history teacher as an example i teach history in your teaching about the ku klux klan are you are teaching about the confederate states of america or if you are teaching about many enslavers, the ideology was of white supremacy so are you not allowed to say that? can you be called on are punished for saying the truth? that creates obviously serious problems for teachers have it s hard enough for teachers but when he prevent them from doing their jobs like anyone else in any other profession that becomes unbearable. so from florida and