“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” By Martin Luther King JR, 1963 These famous words were uttered to hundreds of thousands of people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC...
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Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley is a compelling autobiography that portrays the life of Rosa Parks from her early childhood to the start of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama, and lived in Montgomery most of her life after her parents separated. Growing up in Montgomery was hard for African Americans...
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“Education is the passport to the future, for the tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”-Malcolm X. With that being said Malcolm X meant that you have to educate yourself in order to have a greater and better future. Malcolm X was an important and influential figure in history that had a positive impact because he was an...
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The boom period of exploitation in the USA brought forward probably the most criticised yet progressive wing of the exploitation genre, Blaxploitation, it was an ethnic subgenre born out of the black power movement, with 1971s Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song being one of the first films which portrayed a strong ideology of black power allowing African American actors to forefront...
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Freedom is a basic human right which means all of us deserving but it is not a sheer right. Simply put, it has to be limited in order to protect the legitimate purpose behind it. Then, what is the principle of the purpose? It is regarding others: the human right of us. To illustrate, you cannot spread the harmful information...
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Primary Sources are sources that come straight from the person who has had direct contact with a person or a thing. When gathering facts about history and many other topics, primary sources are vital. Black Power was a movement in the nineteen-sixties and seventies that were supporting rights and political power for African American people but was presumed as violent....
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Malcolm X was an African-American leader, he was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. When Malcolm was young he wanted to be a lawyer and was discouraged by his teacher she had told him that he could not become a lawyer. Then as he got older his father died and that was not to easy for him. When...
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Introduction In the article 'Through My Eyes,' written by Ruby Bridges, the remarkable story of her experience as the first African American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South is vividly portrayed. Bridges' account provides a unique perspective on the challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned during a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. This literary criticism...
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Introduction "Through My Eyes" is a powerful memoir written by Ruby Bridges, an iconic figure in the civil rights movement. The book provides a firsthand account of Ruby's experience as the first African American child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans during the height of racial segregation. Throughout the memoir, various themes emerge, but two prominent themes are...
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One of Luther's many strengths was to not let anything, or anyone stand in his way once he is committed to his goal. An example of when he demonstrated this was when he found out about the Catholic Churches indulgences. Once he found out about this his goal was to save the people that were believers of the church. Although...
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Noticeably throughout society, a parent’s number one priority is their children. Parents are willing to go far and wide to ensure the happiness and safety of their kids. When it comes to rebellion, however, these parental figures need to decide if they are going to do what is best for their children, or what will give them the most successful...
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The first thing that comes to mind when the word ‘privileged’ is mentioned, you normally would think of an advantage that individuals have that others do not. An example of privileged is the money to afford an expensive education. In this case, education should not be considered a privilege nor should it be earned. Free education may not be a...
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The early stages of the anti-war movement in the United States to protest ending the Vietnam War started around 1964 and 1965 just a few years after it started. During this time there was a lot going on in America with the civil rights movement and the anti-cold War movement. This was one of the most troubling times for Americans....
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No title yet For five years now, the Black Lives Matter movement has endeavored to handle the systematic racism present in the US which dehumanizes and depreciates the existence of African American people. The Black Lives Matter protests have followed the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police officers. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the many...
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To achieve social change, non-violent direct action must be undertaken to establish creative tension, in which a community may be forced to help negotiate or confront the issue. Creative tension is always created by non-violent resistors such as Martin Luther King. It is also a norm that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by...
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The vision of Freedom is varied. For Americans, their freedom was written in the Declaration of Independence stating, All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (The Declaration Of Independence). It cannot be said the same for the black community. The...
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The Civil Rights Movement started in the 1950s and took off in the 60s. Although events such as the Virginia High School Walkout where Barbara Johns demanded equal treatment as white students, the Brown v. Board of Education decision where the Supreme Court declared that the segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, and the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott where Rosa...
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