1963

Martin Luther King holds his speech ”I have a dream” in front of the Lincoln Memorial Monument,Washington 1963. 
Martin Luther King and american contradictions Over fifty years ago Dr. King spoke about his dreams in front of the Lincoln Monument. Dreams that yelled for equality between afro-americans and white people. When Obama got elected to office, he became the first black president in the history of the US. Many people thought that this were Dr. King’s dreams coming true. What people do…

Leo Braudy, born June 11, 194, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Braudy received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1963, his M.A also in 1963 and his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974. His main course of study was 17th-18th century English Literature, film and criticism as well as American Culture. William Kurtz Wimsatt and Robert Penn Warren were both professors of history during Braudy’s time at Yale and are co-authors of Literary Criticism: A Short Story. With criticism being a main course of…

violating his probation with a traffic conviction. He was treated so harsh when receiving the violation that his wife, Coretta Scott King, received a personal phone call from the Democratic Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy. Around the spring in 1963, King, along with the SCLC started “Project C,” which was a series of sit-ins and marches protesting…

In June of 1963 Kennedy addressed the national television audience, after Governor Wallace’s show of resistance to desegregation of the state university, and called for a federal civil rights law. It would mainly prohibit racial segregation in the public accommodations…

fight for equal rights, around the mid ‘50s, until his death. His first sermon in ’47, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He was ordained at the church in ’48. MLK gave about 450 speeches a year. His famous speech is “I Have a Dream” on August 28, 1963. About 250,000 people came to hear “I Have a Dream”. His speech was held in Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C. . “ I Have a Dream” speech was one of top 10 speeches, that changed the U.S.A. On December 5, 1955- December 20, 1956, MLK…

had no part in enacting or creating because it did not have the unhampered right to vote,” (King 1963, 80). Furthermore, in order to respect law as an institution, a dissenter must ask him or herself, “are you able to endure the ordeals of jail,” (King 1963 2). He requires that those who break unjust laws “do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty,” (King [Ali-Dinar], 1963). It is here that King’s philosophy condemns Antigone. Creon’s decree that Polyneices cannot be…

of our U.S. government. The action that I believe accurately represents all of these ideas is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The idea of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights address on June 11, 1963. Here he stated, “This Nation was founded…

In April of this year, five members of the United States Women’s National Soccer team with the help of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed an discriminatory action against the U. S Soccer Federation (Martinez, 2016). Even though the women’s team has bought in a profit of around 20 million dollars, they are being paid very poorly compared to the men in the Federation. They are being paid about a fourth of the amount the men make; this even forced some of these world champion soccer…

The Jim Crow Laws and How They Were Overturned Not long after the American Civil war (1861-1865), the Jim Crow Laws were passed. The Jim Crow Laws refer to any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction period (1877) and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement (1950s). These laws were generally created for whites to avoid all contact possible with blacks by separating them in all public facilities, but also denied blacks…

Malcolm X’s childhood had lasting impacts on the type of man that he would grow up to be. On May 19,1925, in Omaha Nebraska, a Civil Rights activist was born. That Civil Rights activist was named Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father was an activist himself during his time, and he was an honest baptist minister. The Ku Klux Klan despised his father’s activism and made threats to him and his family. The Klu Klux Klan was a hate organization that was created after the Civil War that consisted of white…