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beating and torturing African Americans without any consequences, just so happens that police officers today barely have consequences for killing an unarmed person. In 1965 on March 7th in Selma, Alabama Civil Rights Marchers attempted to march to Montgomery, Alabama. They only got as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away. While at the Edmund Pettus Bridge state and local police forces attacked them with billy…

The history of African American culture is very significant to the United States and the rest of the world. African American’s have a unique history because no other race has gone through as much back lash and adversity. Perhaps the most unique part about the history of African Americans is the civil rights movement. The Civil rights movement changed the landscape of the world and how everybody viewed racism. The reason why is because so much of it was going on in the southern part of the United…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is considered one of the first large-scale demonstrations against segregation in the United States during the civil-rights movement (History). Beginning in 1955, african americans stopped riding the public busses in protest of being made to sit in the back of the bus in the “colored section.” Instead, they either rode in cars, rode bikes, or walked to show that they no longer wanted to be treated as second class citizens. The boycott was important to the civil rights…

Samet Öksüz 218019 IR 375 Politics and Society in the USA I HAVE A DREAM Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in 15 January 1929 at Atlanta, Georgia. He is an American black Baptist priest and leader of the American civil rights movement. He was opposed to violence and he supports racial equality in the worldwide. He was assassinated in 1968 and before this, he won Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, King was awarded the Freedom Award by former US President Jimmy Carter in 1966. In his honor,…

The “Montgomery Bus Boycott” was a Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans protested against rules on the bus. The rules and laws on the bus were that if a white male or female asked an African American male or female to get up, they would have to stand up and allow the white person to sit down. The bus boycott lasted 381 day from the dates December 1, 1955 through December 20, 1956. The movement was started by Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up after a long day…

JPT Logos refers to logical reason and proof or evidence. Similarly, Pathos refers to feelings and emotional appeals whereas; Ethos refers to trust and credibility. The first video, “Drunk History- Claudette Colvin And Rosa Parks” was about the 15 years old black girl who was wearing an eye glasses. She was going home from school as usual. Suddenly, a white girl appears in the bus and says to move from their seat to Claudette and her friend because she was white. Claudette’s friend moved from…

Freedom Riders bus ride protests were inspired in 1947 by Bayard Rustin and George Houser and was sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Like the Freedom Rides of 1961, the road to Reconciliation was intended to test the Supreme Court ruling that banned black people from interstate travel; better known as the ruling of Boynton v Virginia. This protest was to protest for racial segregation against the laws of interstate travel. Rustin, along with three other men were arrested and…

A hero is an individual who is admired for their courageous acts. A hero is courageous, determined, responsible, selfless, wise and honest. One well-known hero is Martin Luther King Jr, an activist in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King fought for equality and human rights for African Americans, which ultimately cost him his life. Rosa Parks, also an activist for the Civil Rights Movement, is another prominent example of a hero. Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white…

Martin Luther King is a famously known Civil Rights activist during the Civil Rights Era. His contributions led to equal rights for men of color and whites. One of his strongest attributes was, to persuade people to think or do what is right. Two cases of this are his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and his "Letter From Brigham Jail". In both works, he uses persuasive text to persuade the reader do or think someway. His persuasive texts contain numerous logical appeals and emotional appeals. The…

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…