Edmonson Middle School - Cougars Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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have completed our Greg Smith Susan Smith Dennis Steele Lisa Stevens Rickey Stitt Georgia Tabor Pam Thompson Helen Tchida Randolph Waller Elise Watson Keith Williams Maurice williams Linda wright Johnny Word Frances Hargrove Todd Hichman Barbara Hyden Joe James Tanya James James Ledford Dennis McBride Tim McFry Tracy Shumway Bill Smith Jeffery Simon AVIATION CLUB Janet Wright Rick Howard Chris Varney STUDENTS NOT PICTUi Doug Branham Robert Browning Joyce Brown Patricia Burns Bill Byrd Sanderia Carrier Mike Davis Ricky Devine John Dudley Tim Eads Linda Ford Ron Maples Vickie Mullins Charles Nolte Tim Olmstead Vernard Patterson David Race Robert Teynolds John Russell Billy Salisbury Christine Shumway Jean Jugate Kim Fuller Dina Gray 15.

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to make our plans for after we Maurice Smith Mike Smith Rhonda Smith John Snider Carol Spires Chuck Squires Donna Stanley Robin Strine Tip Sturgill Keith Taylor Stephanie Terry Rex Thornsbury Jeff Tomford Lynn Towler Beverly Turnag Angela Valenti Brian Vasher Chris ward Greg Webb Bob Welsh David Wheller Louis Wherry Ricky Widener Andre Williams Craig Williams Becky Williams Cheryl Wilson Rhona Witte Bernedia Word Howard Worthy 14.

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VM ONLY ONE Mr. Time Keeper, Judges, Fellow Contestants: I am here today because of my keen interest in public speaking, along with the self-confidence that I plan to win. My mind is healthy and I cannot be brain-washed by today's ills because I am one in mind, body and soul. December 5, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, extremely tired from slaving in the white man's home. She decided to sit in the section of the bus that was off limits to people of her color. The color I am re- ferring to is nBlack.n While sitting on the bus, a white man demanded that she give up her seat for him, and Mrs. Parks was only one. One dedicated to fight for her human rights. For years, Black people were characterized as being uignorant,H filthy and disorderly. Everything has changed in Black-white America, and yet nothing has changed. One hundred years ago, at a time of danger and doubt, Abraham Lincoln stood before Congress and pleaded for freedom for the slave in order to Hassure freedom to the free.H He added: HFellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. . .The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.H The words are still relevant. One hundred and thirteen years ago, in one of the Negro's perennial crises, Frederick the white Douglas warned that America's racial policy was Hfrought with evil to man, as well as to his victims.H He added: Uwe Negroes are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed and assimilated, but never extin- guished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here, and that this is our country. We shall neither die out, nor be driven out, but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in thus favor throughout their gen- eration.H Many I am be a lazy settle to any other before my settle to I control Dr. Martin Luther King wrote the ungrammatical truth of an old These words are still relevant. contributions to our society came from only one person's idea. one. Yes, one with many values and convictions. HI will not settle to Black man, I will not settle to be an un-educated Black man, I will not for my household to be destroyed by drugs or settle to watch my children deteriorate allow my mind to become racist, I will not do, I must strive for the top. For I am only one. be poor, I will not settle man-made ills. I will not to eyes, I will not settle be second in anything I my destiny.H in his speeches to Blacks and whites. He quotes preacher. HLord, we ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanna be, We ain't what we gonna be, But thank God, we ain't what we was.n Antonio williams Ninth Grade 16.