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Congratulations to Ben, Joshua and Tanner, winners of the CMG Worldwide
Black
History Month Essay Contest.
Throughout the month of February essays from around
the country were submitted for the competition. In their own words, boys
and girls both young and old expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the
African-American men and women - who through sacrifice and great accomplishment - made
the world a better place to live.
For one year, the winning essays will remain on the Black History Month Web site. We appreciate the effort of everyone who submitted essays and encourage those who did not win to try again next year.
Essay by: Joshua
Dr. Martin Luther King stated that he had a dream of whites and blacks holding hands. Because of this, my life was not so much changed but created!
I am a son of a black man, I am also a son of a white woman. We are able to be a family - a proud family - because of his works! Dr. King went about everything in the correct manner: Non-violence.
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Essay by: Ben
When Fannie Lou Hamer intrepidly stated that she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired," she
was not merely expressing the angst of a difficult and arduous life. Rather,
she was exemplifying the movement that defined the second half of the American
Century. Stepping forth from the oppression under which she toiled for most of
her life, Hamer dedicated herself to ensuring, through democracy, that the vicious
cycle of poverty and lack of civil rights to which she was born would cease.
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Essay by: Tanner
Jessie Owens "Would any of you be shocked if I started a speech on black history
by talking about Adolf Hitler? He was one of the most terrible leaders in the
history of the world. He wanted to prove to the world that the white Germans
were the superior race, and he started a war about it. Imagine his surprise when
I, a black American, came into his Berlin Olympics, and walked off with 4 gold
medals and three world records, right in the heart of Nazi Germany, while he
was trying to prove that white Germans were the superior race.
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