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So, on to the United States, a place where moral smugness takes second seat to no one, not even the British. And low and behold, the Nonviolent activists parade out another Saint, one Martin Luther King. A good man, in my book, but not someone who ended Jim Crow through Nonviolence. Jim Crow (racism) was itself a complex social phenomena, composed ultimately of social beliefs, customs, violent tactics, and laws that evolved over a long period of time. The end of Jim Crow (and it isn’t totally…

Peaceful resistance is defined as making a statement without any violent interactions. Violence just tells people what they already assume, that the resistance is not something worth fighting for. There is a view on violence that suggests it is used by people who are willing to hurt anybody for anything. The Law views violence with negativity and several repercussions. Peaceful resistance, however, do not contain any violence whatsoever. Therefore, the law is more inclined to listen and…

Every American knows of the civil rights leader Marther Luther King Jr., but not many people know about the man who inspired MLK to employ the passive resistance technique as a way of protest. That man is Mahatma Gandhi, he is also known for having this idea that "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Some people believe that there is no correlation between finding yourself and committing yourself to helping others, but that way of thinking is simply…

America is the home of the brave and the land of the free right? Men, Women and children were discriminated against because of the amount of melon in their skin. Their skin complexion is not something that proves that they are less intelligent or less worthy of living. Since America is the land of the free, why do people of color live under oppression? From the 1880s to the 1960s, America had enforced by the Jim Crow laws(Nps), which caused segregation. The laws were simply put in place so that…

drift away from nonviolent and peaceful protests, towards a new movement called "Black Power," that would change and challenge the cultural and racial war in America. Some of the leading figures during these two movements such as, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X voiced their attitudes concerned with issues the voiceless were facing. These two movements were the crucial causes for changes in cultural, political, economical, and social reforms in America for African…

Still Fighting for Civil Rights Civil rights will always be a movement. It’s something the United States, the land of the free, has always struggled with. Every time an issue about civil rights is brought up, millions fight against making a change. The United States has come such a long way with civil rights, but it’s foolish to think that the civil rights movement is over. The fight is still going on and will continue to go on until this country values all lives equally. Malcolm X fought for…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in American history that brought forth an “cultural, social, and artistic explosion” (PBS) centered around the African-American neighborhood, and its residence, in New York known as Harlem. Sadly, Harlem currently is becoming more gentrified as the years pass. This is something I noticed on my many visits to New York over the past few years. However, Harlem became famous during this period bringing Iconic establishments still respected today such as the Apollo…

As the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael was the manifestation of the growing frustration with the lack of progress achieved under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Carmichael’s political philosophy accentuated the importance of racial solidarity and the development of black social and cultural institutions with the key objective of nurturing and promoting black interests. More importantly, Carmichael called for…

into African affairs continued, with startlingly little benefit to native Africans. It seems that the world lumps African civil rights as a whole under the Biko banner and apartheid, the same way American children are taught about Martin Luther King Jr. and little else of the triumph over Jim Crow, how and why that is could be debated almost endlessly without resolution. Unlike Nehru, who I agreed with because I consider myself a humanist and believe that a better world is possible and should…

Mohandas Gandhi The definition of leadership from Merriam-Webster is the power or ability to lead other people. After looking at this definition and trying to figure out if this definition fit, it didn’t quite fit who he was. Searching for the right definition of a leader, I came across moral leadership. The definition describes a moral leader is someone who aims to serve, tend to better others, a person who can be trusted, and a person who has deep morals and a sense of core ethics. There was a…