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social activism, is inefficient in regards to challenging the status quo, and I concur. 
 The article begins with an anecdote, which Malcolm Gladwell consistently returns to discuss. He recounts the beginning of a revolutionary protest, at the Greensboro lunch counter, in the 1960’s; four African American students begin a sit-in,…

the size of UNCG might be overwhelming to some students, and they might not know what resources they have at their disposal, so as a Peer Academic Leader I would be the person they could come to when they need help navigating around campus, around Greensboro, or help navigating the resources they have available to them. As a transfer…

article titled, “The disproportionate risks of driving while black” by Sharon Lafraniere and Andrew Lehren, states that the Greensboro police has filed charges against 836 blacks but only 209 whites. In addition, blacks are four times as more likely than white people to be arrested in Greensboro. Most importantly, blacks only represent 41 percent of the population of Greensboro, yet there is a great disproportion of blacks to whites on arrests and…

for sparking a revolution in justifying the fact that separation does not mean equality. February 1, 1960 four African American students came together to protest the inequality served at public facilities and in this case at a local restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina. During this time, African Americans were allowed to order food to go only, and weren’t allowed to dine in and receive full service. The four students proceeded to sit at the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter; there they asked to…

other groups to confront segregation with “sit-in” at lunch counters, which later expanded to more than 60 lunch counters. Two of NAACP former officers, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeill, were part of the four black students who sat at lunch counter in Greensboro. Through NAACP involvement, the sit-in movement spread all over the south. However, the NAACP faced many restrictions that prevented them from working in the South. But this restrictions were the ones who gave path to Southern Christian…

Frank Lucas grew up in Greensboro North Carolina where he lived with his parents, Mahalee and Fred Lucas. Most of his Childhood took place at the height of the great depression when most people were suffering in poverty, especially the African Americans. This made life hard for his family and because he lived in the deep south where racism was at its worst, it is easy to see why he turned toward the life of crime. According to Frank himself, the main reason he began to follow a life of crime is…

Social Media has change the way people do activism or bring awareness of a cause now a day but it also has brought a different perspective between two different authors with different point of views. In the essay ‘Small changes: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted’ Malcolm Gladwell claims that social media doesn’t have a function when it comes to any Revolutionary movement or activism, since it forms a weak reflection among people; And the way people do activism. Besides Robin Newton author…

that represents how the people in American history fought to free themselves form the chains of the chains of discrimination. On that day 4 valiant people opposed the norms of society and sat in the “Whites Only” section of the Woolworth diner in Greensboro, N.C. This courage, ignited a wildfire of boycotts that spread throughout all of America. My piece conveys the courage of the people who participated in the sit-ins. The Boko-Haram girls was an incident that occurred in Chibok, Nigeria, South…

were acts of nonviolent protest between nineteen fifty-five and nineteen sixty-eight. The forms of protest that occurred were boycotts such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott that happened in 1955 until 1956 in Alabama the little rock high school, the Greensboro sit-ins and Selma to Montgomery marches that took place in Alabama and…

In the summer of 1960 the beginning of deseragratiom began here in Fredericksburg. Some African American high school student learned about a protest that had happened in Greensboro NC. The NC protest was college African American students that started a sit in protest where they went into the local store and occupied the seats at the lunch counter. This allowed no seats for white paying customers.This type of protest was learned about all over the country. Some African American high school…