African Americans' rights activists

go through many challenges growing up as an African American, just like Martin Luther King, she was an activist. She was mostly known for staying in her seat when the bus driver told her to give it up to a white man. Rosa’s story relates to mine in many ways. Her courage and determination helps me to find the courage in myself. Rosa Parks was treated unfairly because she was African-American. She was an activist against segregation for African-americans. Her first act that had gotten her…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and an advocate of the civil rights movements, wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as a response to the clergymen who questioned his demonstration techniques in their “Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen”. These eight clergymen voiced their concern that King, an outsider, controlled peaceful demonstrations against discrimination in Birmingham. Whilst the clergymen stated that they supported King’s ultimate aims, they disliked his “untimely and…

at the centuries of racism African Americans faced in the United States. From enslavement to the mass incarceration system of today, black people have been oppressed, neglected, and treated like second class citizens. Although they have been a vital part of the shaping of the United States, their contributions have often been overlooked and discredited. While there were a few short periods of positive achievement in the black community, the majority of African American history is filled with…

The United State’s civil rights movement was at full swing in 1964, yet still only four-percent of Americans felt that racial problems were considered to be a challenge that the United States faced. However unmindful the general public may have been, civil unrest grew stronger within the African American community and like-minded volunteers decided to tackle the increasing challenge of civil rights with certainty. The disillusion of the American public was overcome with a series of civil and…

African Americans have always faced inequalities and injustices from the birth of America. African Americans were first segregated from whites due the creation of the slave codes, which distinguished who was white and who was black, or in other terms, who has rights and who does not. Once slavery ended it did not end segregation or even racism; the Jim Crow laws defined segregation. Black people were not allowed to go to white schools, or even sit next to a white a person on a bus. Blacks did…

mobilization, and political literacy” (p. 6) of the Black Panther Party. By implementing anti-segregation and educational public campaigns, the Black Panther Party became important for the development and empowerment of the African American community. A couple of activists stood against segregation during the mid-twentieth century, but their campaigns were inefficient because of lack of support from the community, as well as from authorities. Many black…

Civil Rights are the rights to individuals in which they receive equal treatment, social legally and economically. Africans Americans have been fighting for these exact rights for so long, and they are still continuing to fight the same rights after countless gains in society. Since the abolition of slavery in 1863, there has been speculation between the black and white parties on whether civil rights should be granted which has caused continuous conflict between the races of people who live in…

criticize DuVernay for deliberately making critical factual errors in Selma before understanding her background and beliefs as a director. DuVernay is an African American filmmaker who during her college education majored in African American studies. DuVernay not only had a personal connection to the context of the film as an African American woman, but also to the general region of Selma. DuVernay frequently vacationed in Lowndes county, a township next to Selma as child. Hence, she…

The era of civil rights in the 1960s to 1970s was a time of silent protests, sit-ins and change. Included with change, however, comes the want to stop the new developing culture. This battle between advancement and stagnation created many points of history, including the civil rights movements. Both articles present the effect of civil rights movements on colleges during the 1970s as well as its influence on college campuses and the surrounding communities. In the article, “Student Radicalism…

The civil rights movement had a numerous amount of activists. The activists range from Gandhi like figures to radical extremist figures. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian man who believed in the nonviolence strategies of protest. On the other hand there was Malcolm X who was a Muslim who believed a real man would resort to violence in order to achieve change. Later in the movement the Black Panther Party formed which followed the ideas of Malcolm X and openly called for violence. During the…