Conference call

Who is one person who inspired everyone and had a dream of equality. Can you guess who this person is ? Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspire and and inspired me by doing what he did and how much he loved his people for everyone one having rights. Just because you are a different race or skin color does not mean you are better than them or treat them poorly. That is how MLK inspired me. He stood up for himself and his nation for equality.” All men are created equal.” Declaration of Independence.…

Luther King Jr. uses rationale, morals, and emotion to persuade his fellow clergymen and the “white moderate” why civil rights should be awarded to African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and was invited to Birmingham to participate in a non-violent protest. The main reason for the protest was the inequality…

On a sweltering summer day in the City of Atlanta or the “ATL” as it is affectionately known today, I visited my best friend while he visited his father for the summer. That day I remember vividly because as soon as we stepped outside of the airport to take the “MARTA” train, I began to sweat profusely. Anyone that has been to Atlanta during the summer knows it is incredibly humid there. A week earlier I had seen my friend, and we planned out what we were going to do that week I visited. I knew…

(ellabakercenter.org). In the late 1960 the message, actions, and philosophy of the SNCC changed. Baker continued to support the organization however her role was reduced over time (Veil, 2015). From 1962 to 1967 she was a staff member of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF). SCEF was an inter-racial, de-segregation, human rights group based in the South. The organization was instrumental in raising funds for black activists, to fight social justice, lobby for the implementation of…

They organized a huge voter registration drive in Mississippi. Members of the SNCC went from door to door encouraging people to cast their votes. Some other civil rights groups at the time were The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Some civil rights leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers and John Lewis. The SNCC was considered different from all the other civil rights…

To be persistent is to continue a course of action in spite of any difficulty or opposition. Without this, no one would ever overcome their obstacles and they would never learn from their mistakes. The readings “Letter from Birmingham jail” by Martin Luther king Jr., “Graduation” by Maya Angelou and “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X show persistency at its finest in their own individual ways. Maya Angelou and Malcolm X both share their goal for education fulfillment and stop at nothing to…

stood up for himself and others by leading the civil rights movement, and others by leading the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC), and by leading the bus boycott for Rosa Parks. Luther helped his dream come true by leading the civil rights movement. His "I have a dream" speech is what is most remembered when you think of the southern leadership conference. According to Vincent Harding Martin said "I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where…

“Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.” -Erykah Badu. Just one of the many inspirational quotes said by the soulful artist. Born Erica Abi Wright later change to Erykah Badu,("kah" is an Egyptian term for one's "inner self," and "badu" is her favorite jazz-riff scat sound.) on February 26, 1971, in Dallas, Texas. Erykah was introduced into music and other arts in her early life because…

A Timeless Cruelty “People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” Claims Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. On April 16, 1963, a letter was written to the clergy to alert them of what great injustices were taking place in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a letter that illustrates oppression being a…

The Life and Achievements of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou became and died a phenomenal author because of her esoteric depictions of life through the themes of race and her distaste for the social class system. Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis as Marguerite Annie Johnson (Williamson). Following her parents’ divorce, Angelou and her brother Bailey were sent to live with their deeply religious grandmother Annie Johnson. Bailey gave Marguerite the nickname Maya at a young age. During…