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ESSAY CONTEST
IOWA CITY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Alice Harris, 356-5022
To celebrate African American and Womens History through an essay contest.
To increase awareness of Human Rights issues.
A Hero For Our Time. A Civil Rights, Human Rights or Women's Rights Activist
How was this famous civic leader, past or present, a hero and what lessons can we learn
from them for our daily ~ves?
Research their life and contributions and what characteristics about them were heroic.
The extent we can model our ~ves in the quest for justice and human rights.
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6th and 7th grades
8th and 9th grades
10th, 11 th and 12th grades
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Each essay should be no more th~n 600 words.
Type or write in black ink on 8-1/2" by 11" white paper.
Iowa City Human Rights Commission
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240
. Good research skills and problem solving abilities.
Effective use of descriptive language.
. Level of interest and historical value.
Correct punctuation, spelling, grammar, neatness.
Winning essays will be chosen by a panel composed of Iowa City Human Rights
Commission Commissioners.
_ First pri2e will be awarded in each of the three grade divisions. Pri2es will include
books and certificates of achievement.
. The three winners will be honpred by the Mayor at the City Council meeting in April.
- All winners a!1d teachers will receive a photograph of the event.
Essays musl: be postmarked no later than Friday. March 11. 1994.
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( Human Right)
Human rights Is a right to do almost anything you want.llke
go to any school you want. " Free speech" means, say whatever you
want to say.like. i want to be able to go to any place in the
United'States of America Instead of only staying In
Iowa.ilFreedom," You don't have to be a slave or a person I~ho Is
told they have to stay here. They can go anywhere.
Fannie Lou Hammer was born In 1917,ln Rulerllle MIssissIppi.
She had twenty brothers and sisters. She was the" FIRST LADY
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movement. She and seventeen otnets agreed to go to the county
court house to register to vote, They were asked twenty-one
questlones. One was, " copy and I nterpret a part of the
Mlsslslppl Constitution." They all failed. Fannie Lou left and
said. " I'll be back again and again t III I pass."
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HUMAN RIGHTS
The person whom I look up to isn't a famous person, but he is a
person I admire. His name is Clarence Larkens. He is a Sargent Major in
the Army. The reason why I look up to him is because of his outlook on
life.
Every February Clarence volunteers to go to schools to talk to kids
about Martin Luther King, Black History, The Civil War, civil rights
activists, and other important Issues.
Clarence also teaches the the importance of treating EVERYONE
with respect and dignity, and not to judge people by their skin color. And
to also treat male, female, different looks, and the rich and the poor
with the same respect. Clarence says, we must learn to except people for
their accomplishments and personality.
The reason Clarence goes into schools is because, he thinks that
parents, television, and peers influence what children think. He thinks
when others' think for children then they, don't get a good outlook on life.
When children start to make their own choices then we are one step
closer to peace.
I thin~ "Black History Month is a good idea, because children aren't
just learning about famous black civil rights activists, but about peace
and treating others the way you as a person and not a race would like to
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