Civil and political rights

With Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson and in 1964 King earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy was nonviolent protests, fighting prejudice, pursuing social justice, and service to others. He wanted to end segregation and legal inequality and aimed for civil rights and voting rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in a time of the Jim Crow laws, making segregation and discrimination and…

Have you ever been bullied or oppressed in any shape, form, or fashion? While the oppressor tried to keep you down, did you keep your head up and smile? That is what Maya Angelou writes about in her poem, “Still I Rise.” A motif that is evident in this poem, and many of her other poems, is identity. Maya Angelou conveys the motif of identity through her use of tone, repetition, and imagery. Tone plays a big role in the development of identity in the poem. In the beginning of the poem, the tone…

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are very well known African American men that fought for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. They shaped the history for African Americans in the United States. Both had very strong ideologies and had fought for what they believed in, even though their beliefs may have differed. The first thing to note is that both men had come from very different backgrounds, which may have shaped their perspectives. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in a middle class…

her life conveying messages through her words and music. She had a strong belief in the African- American life style.() As an artist she used her words to express her feelings and emotions to her audiences. She was an American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist. In her life, she published many autobiographies and books of poetry, also debuting in any movies and plays and television shows for over 50 years. At a young age, Maya began to capture the…

states that Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech became one of the most famous influential speeches in 1963. His speech set the tone and movement. It affected Americans, most of all. They were ready to fight in the south. It gained the respect of many political leaders and gave him potential power. Later that year, after the speech, he was named “ man of the year”.…

Selma voting rights campaign occurred on March 7th to March 25th in 1965. The main objective of this event that took place was targeted toward African American citizen’s right to vote. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held a mass meeting in Brown Chapel. From then on, many groups and other organization join Martin Luther King Jr. The groups that joined are, Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).…

Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Civil Rights activist from the early 1950s until he was murdered in the late 1960s. King mainly focused on the use of nonviolent protests, which came from his deep Christian beliefs. Some of his most notable protests are the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, March on Washington (I Have a Dream Speech), the Birmingham Campaign, “Bloody Sunday”, and Selma’s Voting Right’s. Specifically, Kings “I Have a Dream” speech…

Oppression. Empowerment. Growth. Change. What do these four things have in common? While the poems “Still I Rise” and “Unwelcome” contain noticeable differences in style and tone, they share similarities in them and sound. In literature, writers tend to use tone to paint a picture of what their writing is about. Throughout Maya Angelou's poem “Still I Rise” she uses a writing style that helps achieve a tone of empowerment. Over the course of Angelou’s life she was belittled and a victim of…

ceremonies on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr spoke last because by this time, he had a reputation for eloquence, and no one wanted to follow him (Haskins, 1992, p.76). King was fighting for civil rights and believed everyone in America had the same rights.…

Rosa Parks. Proper noun. An African American female worker from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting down on a bus driving home after a long day of work. A white man came onto the bus, and all the seats were filled. The bus driver told her to move, and she said “No.” Rosa Parks was arrested because she did not move for a white man to sit down. On October…