The Civil Rights Movement: Jackie Robinson And Rosa Parks

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“This is Not a Moment, but a Movement,” This is the slogan for the Black Lives Matter. BLM is mainly an African American movement that fights against violence and racism toward Black people. Although this is a fairly new movement the problem of racial inequality has been around since slavery was abolished. Two examples of black people who had this struggle during their time are Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. Jackie Robinson was the first african american baseball player in the MLB. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and became a paragon of the civil rights movement. Similar to the BLM movement, both Jackie Robinson’s entrance into the MLB and Rosa Park’s refusal to submit to a white person’s command display a protest against

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