President's Day
Monday, Feb. 20th, Martin County Schools are closed. There will be no bus transportation so please make other arrangements to get to and from school. There will be no school district-provided lunch either, but Clark will have pizza available for purchase. Please bring $3.50 cash for a lunch that includes one slice of pizza, salad, fruit and drink. Additional slices are available for $1 each. You are not able to charge this lunch to your prepaid ID, so please bring cash to the lunch line. If you qualify for free or reduced lunch, it will be honored. If you did not sign up at the front desk you can still sign up here until Monday morning. Don't sign up at the usual link below.
February Assembly on Monday
Also, we will be announcing Honor Roll from 1st Semester and the Character Counts Award for January.
In honor of Black History Month, here are key events that shaped history.
Feb 13- In honor of Black History Month, here is a key event that shaped history. In 1947, Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey.
Feb 14- Bethune-Cookman College and Florida A&M University are historically black institutions of higher learning. B-CC in Daytona Beach began in 1904 as a school for black girls under the leadership of a dynamo named Mary McLeod Bethune. The school gradually evolved and the state OK'd a four-year liberal arts and teaching program in 1941.
Feb 15- In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. On April 4. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
Feb 16- In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African American to be nominated as a major party nominee for president. On November 4, Barack Obama, becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States.
Feb. 17- In honor of the civil rights heroes, today we remember the contributions of Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, left work and boarded a bus for home. As the bus became crowded, the bus driver ordered Parks to give up her seat to a white passenger. Montgomery's buses were segregated, with the seats in the front reserved for "whites only." Blacks had to sit at the back of the bus. But if the bus was crowded and all the "whites only" seats were filled, black people were expected to give up their seats. Rosa had had enough of such humiliation, and refused to give up her seat. "I felt I had a right to stay where I was," she said. "I wanted this particular driver to know that we were being treated unfairly as individuals and as a people." The bus driver had her arrested.
Martin Luther King, Jr., heard about Parks' brave defiance and launched a boycott of Montgomery buses. The 17,000 black residents of Montgomery pulled together and kept the boycott going for more than a year. Finally, the Supreme Court intervened and declared segregation on buses unconstitutional. Rosa Parks and the boycotters defeated the racist system, and she became known as "the mother of the civil rights movement."
