Racial discrimination was always a big thing in America. There are many times in history this happened and caused it to be a big story that everyone heard about. There are two big civil rights leaders by the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. These two activists are known for huge changes in the Civil Rights Movement.
December 1st, 1955, was a big day in African-American civil rights movement. A young
African-American woman boarded the city bus in the “Colored Section”. When buses fill up with white people, bus drivers would move back the colored section and force blacks to move back and extend the white section. That day when Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section,
The bus filled up with more white people and the bus driver told …show more content…
Martin is known for ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens and using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice. He received a Nobel peace prize, created the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, as well as Voting Rights act of 1965. He also did all he could to make people realize that “All men are created equal”.
The relationship between Black Lives Matter and these two historical events are that they both wanted to achieve equality and end discrimination towards black people. They are both movements to make people recognize that black lives matter too. Not that everyone else's lives don't matter, the purpose is to show people that black lives are already being treated like they don't matter. The correlation between Black Lives Matter and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
King Jr. is that they both dedicated their lives to achieve equality and end the idea that black people come second. They both think that all men were created equal.
There's been a long history in America of white privilege. White privilege is the ability for whites to maintain an elevated status in society that even covers racial inequality. This means that black people don't have the same “rights” as white people which means they can't do
December 1st, 1955, was a big day in African-American civil rights movement. A young
African-American woman boarded the city bus in the “Colored Section”. When buses fill up with white people, bus drivers would move back the colored section and force blacks to move back and extend the white section. That day when Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section,
The bus filled up with more white people and the bus driver told …show more content…
Martin is known for ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens and using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice. He received a Nobel peace prize, created the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, as well as Voting Rights act of 1965. He also did all he could to make people realize that “All men are created equal”.
The relationship between Black Lives Matter and these two historical events are that they both wanted to achieve equality and end discrimination towards black people. They are both movements to make people recognize that black lives matter too. Not that everyone else's lives don't matter, the purpose is to show people that black lives are already being treated like they don't matter. The correlation between Black Lives Matter and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
King Jr. is that they both dedicated their lives to achieve equality and end the idea that black people come second. They both think that all men were created equal.
There's been a long history in America of white privilege. White privilege is the ability for whites to maintain an elevated status in society that even covers racial inequality. This means that black people don't have the same “rights” as white people which means they can't do