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Hartnell College Special Student Opportunities Pathways Is Your Goal to Go to College Going to college soon? or Take a Job Training? Would Money Help? Hartnell ‘s Fanny Salgado will present the steps in presentations in English & Spanish. Here are the dates: General Information (Room S-1) Wednesday, February 20 6-8 PM Thursday, February 28 9 AM-12 PM Apply for the Janet Hedlund Scholarship Applications/FAFSA (Room A-4) from our Teachers’ Union. Thursday, February 21 6:30-9 PM Thursday, March 7 9:30 AM-12 PM Who Qualifies to Apply: Salinas Adult School students who will graduate Individual Help (Room A-2) 2018-2019 with a high school diploma or a HiSET or GED certificate and will walk at Thursdays, March 7 & 21; April 4 graduation in May 6:30-8 PM Tuesdays March 12 & 26; April 9 When: Before March 1 10-11:30 A.M. How: See Hayward, Mary, or Tim for an application and instructions. More Money Help Turn in your completed portfolio to Sue Mondays-Thursdays 8AM-6PM before the March 1 deadline. Hartnell College The winner will be announced at Financial Aid Office Rm. B-110 graduation on May 23. Tutor at the Carter G. Woodson Salinas Adult School Come join our team & make the difference in the life of a person. He was a writer known as the “Father of Black History” who made a lot of contributions with his investigation about African-American history. He wrote more than a dozen books, but the most recognized was “The Mis-Education of the Negro” (1933) which become required reading at numerous colleges and universities. Another very important thing was that he was the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. Do You Like to Write or Are You Just Learning? The reason why he was named the “Father Don’t miss our annual Of the Black History” is because he created poetry and short story contest. Black History Month. He was the one who Categories for all levels of students: had the idea to commemorate Black History and shared that idea with schools and Beg. ESL: Why I Like this School organizations, encouraging them to Int/Adv ESL: My USA participate in a special program to Develop. Eng/HSD/HSE:Life Lessons encourage the study of African-American Parenting: Children--The Greatest history. This began in February 1926 with Teachers Negro History Week, and later expanded to Beg. Spanish: Language Learning Black History Month. Int/Adv Spanish: Appreciating Others’ Cultures Woodson died on April 3, 1950. He is a man Maximum: One poem and one story per respected for the vision he had. Something person. very important that he taught us is that Length: Poem up to ½ page 11 pt Ariel history especially one that caused damage Short Story up to one page 11 pt Ariel should never be forgotten, so that it is never All writing in English except for Spanish repeated. class students will write in Spanish. Deadline: Friday, March 29 at 12:00 in Rm A-3. Winners will be published in By: Jessica Estrada the newsletter. 1800s wanted to change their minds during the Harriet Tubman and the dangerous journey to the north for their freedom, Harriet Tubman would pull out her Underground Railroad gun and say,” You’ll be free or die a slave!” “ I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves,” Harriet Tubman said. Later in Harriet Tubman's life she was a leader for the Abolitionist movement to abolish slavery in America. She also was a spy for the Union forces in South Carolina during the Civil War. During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman was a nurse. After the Civil War, Harriet Tubman settled down on land that she owned in Auburn, New York with her family and friends. The Underground Railroad of the 1800's was not a real railroad at all, and it was not To this day, Harriet Tubman is one of the underground. The Underground Railroad most recognized in American Women’s was a string of trails and safe houses where History. Tubman’s legacy has inspired slaves could go for the night to stay safe people from every race and background from those hunting them as they tried to from around the world to fight for freedom escape to the north and to freedom.The and civil rights. famous Harriet Tubman was a slave too. Harriet Tubman was a brave and amazing She went back to the slave states a lot of woman. Not many people could do what times to help take slaves to free northern she did to help slaves escape to freedom states and Canada.The journey from the and a better life. She was an American slave states and back to the free states was hero. very dangerous for Harriet Tubman and those she helped. Harriet Tubman helped By Erin McNew her family and friends and other slaves escape horrible slavery. Lots of times Tubman was breaking the laws in the slave states to help slaves escape. If slaves 1940s-1960s picked another baseball player, but he chose Robinson not only because of his great skills as a player, but because he The Story of a Double Hero needed a person with great charisma and an amazing personality to face the big In 1947 Jackie Robinson changed challenge to find his place on a white team. the history of baseball. At the time that this The only condition that Rickey gave phenomenal athlete started to play Robinson was to never respond to any professional baseball, living as a Black aggression, Rickey even tested Robinson to know his reactions to the kinds of person in the USA was very challenging. situations he was going to face. Jackie During 1940s to the 1960s, Jim Crow laws passed all of the tests. were in effect in the South which kept separate African Americans from white He went through different situations Americans in almost every public place of repudiation and discrimination by his including churches, restaurants, schools, teammates, fans and of course in public and even in basic services like places, such as some hotels refused to let him check in with his team and during the transportation by bus. games sometimes the fans yelled bad Some other areas were segregated words at him. Many times he and his family were threatened by the neighbors. too such as sports. Baseball was no exception. There was a specific baseball But none of this league only for Black professional players became an obstacle called the Negro Leagues. to Jackie Robinson. He won the title as Robinson was a great athlete. After the Most Valuable leaving the army, he decided to play Player in 1945, hit professional baseball, so his only alternative 12 home runs, and was to play professionally in the Negro became the Rookie Leagues. He decided to get a position on of the Year because the Monarchs, the Kansas team in 1945. He he was the leader of never would have imagined that in the same stolen bases. He year, he was going to be invited to play on a was also the key for the New York Dodgers team that would change forever the history to win the World Series. The most important of baseball and set another relevant accomplishment however was that milestone in the journey of the Black Robinson became a hero in two ways: He population to fight against their treatment was the first Black professional baseball and for their civil rights. player with amazing achievements, but he became a hero in a social context too. He New York Dodgers’ Owner Branch was an inspiration for all African American Rickey invited Jackie to join the all white athletes and civilians at a very complicated Montreal Royals with the intention for Jackie moment for Blacks creating a pathway to to help him to create Major League Baseball civil rights. and try to take out the division between black and white players. He could have By Patricia Garcia Rosa Parks The boycott was to have African Americans not ride city buses. African Americans were treated as second class citizens. Segregation was an injustice for Black people because they had many restrictions in every place they went. It is well known that discrimination had existed for a long time. For On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks example in restaurants there were changed the lives of African signs that said Blacks were not Americans. Rosa broke a allowed to enter. In schools, Black segregation law in Montgomery, students could not be in the same Alabama. classes as whites. African Americans went through very hard times. This is Rosa was the woman that refused to what Rosa Parks said, “All people give the seat to a white man in a should be treated equally, right? public bus. Then the bus driver called Regardless of where you come from, the police, and Rosa was arrested. what religion you follow, where you work, what language you speak, or Rosa knew that what she was doing whether you are a boy or a girl.” was wrong. “People always say that I did not give up the seat because I The activist Rosa Parks changed the was tired”. The real reason that she lives of millions of African Americans. refused to give up the seat was She was an amazing woman who because she was not tired physically, fought for civil rights. On November but she was tired of giving up her 13, 1956 the Supreme Court ruled seat just because of the color of her that segregation was skin.