Benjamin Brown: The Hidden Hero

The Hidden Hero Do you know the whole list if Civil Rights activist, whom risked their lived for your education and voting rights? Well you may have heard Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc. That list gives you names of famous Civil Right activist, leading you to believe that those are the only people who had an impact on this movement. Though, there are people known as Hidden Figures, some of which are people who had a huge impact on the Civil Rights movement. These people don’t get the necessary spotlight that they deserve. Therefore, this essay was written for Benjamin Brown, a truck driver and a civil rights activist who lived in Jackson. Nevertheless, he had an impact by participating in voter registration drives, spreading positive messages, and passing away. Benjamin Brown is one of many Hidden Figures, changing the course of history and the way many people think. To show passion for fighting the cause of discrimination, he would devote countless hours in voting registration drives. This is undertaken by a political campaign, political party, or other outside groups, that seeks to register persons who are eligible …show more content…
Therefore, Benjamin Brown is one of many, by spreading nothing, but positive messages and making people want to change and make the earth a better place. By doing these things we would gain local attraction in Mississippi giving him a bad reputation among the police and other racist people. They would have him arrested seven times, and for those reasons he would be seen as a threat to many. In spite of this, he would continue to spread positivity and participate in many demonstrations, paying tribute to that he believes in, bringing nothing, but justice to people and changing the way of history. Once said by MLK, “I have a dream,” and this is something that Benjamin Brown has helping him on his journey to