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    Peaceful resistance to laws impact a free society in a positive way. The reason I say this because throughout the years we seen cases/ events that show how being resistance to law could ended up in violence. Unarm people being killed who was just protesting peacefully with other millions of people gathered at the place. Being resistful towards problems you come across in your life like walking to school, work or just casually walking down the street just shows that you wont indulge in the…

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    Civil Rights Movement had some of the most effective non-violent protest. There was Sit-Ins, the Bus Boycott, marches, and many others. Though the most famous and most effective non-violent protest are the marches, the Bus Boycott, and Sit-In’s. Rosa Parks even started the big non-violent protest called the Bus Boycott when she was arrested by standing for what she believed in. Altho all the non-violent protest had a effect of the Civil Rights Movement some had more effect than others. The…

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    Rosa Parks, civil rights activist, a citizen in Alabama, and one of many of the bravest ladies in Today’s Black History. Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defiance of giving up her seat on a bus for a white passenger got her arrested and she had to pay a $10 court fee but that paid off because it lead to many boycotts and riots that finally Montgomery, Alabama withdrew the law of segregation on public buses. During her early childhood she…

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    I have dream Martin Luther king was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He was the first son and second born, he was born to a very Christian family. His father was a minster. At a young age martin show the need for the social change King first came across discrimination, aged six, when he and a white friend were sent to different schools. Aged 14, King was forced to give up his bus seat for a white passenger on a ride home from Georgia. He had just won a contest, with a speech about…

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    Baseball…- a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia. (Dictionary.com) The only thing I’ve ever cared about though, it intrigued me from an extremely young age. Amidst the time when my brother and cousin played this mysterious game outside my grandma's house every other week. I’d sit and watch them throw the white baseball with red laces, outside next to an oak tree in…

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    Charlie Brown & The Gang Throughout your childhood, it is more than likely that you have watched one if not all of the holiday specials that Charles M. Schulz has contributed to society through his legendary Peanuts cartoons. Whether it’s “The Great Pumpkin” or “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, Schulz’s animations have remained a tradition in American families’ homes for years. With his endearing characters and moral lessons, Schulz has created an archive of masterpieces that don’t seem to be leaving…

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    life was like for many Black people living in the United States during institutionalized segregation over 60 years ago., and Rosa Parks, a seamstress working in Montgomery, Alabama, was no exception. Preceded by Claudette Colvin, another woman…

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    year old seamstress, Rosa Parks, got on the Cleveland Avenue bus after a long day of work. She sat down with no intention to start a fight(“Rosa Parks”Biography.com). As a black woman, she was required to sit in the back of the bus according to the laws of segregation at that time. Whites and blacks were segregated in many ways of life - restaurants, drinking fountains, public bathrooms as well as all forms of public transportation. The injustices were felt by many like Parks. But few dared to…

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    along with many other activists played a very crucial role towards the second reconstitution. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56 was held under his straight direction. It happened when a lady named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus. New policies developed in 1956 to rule out racial discrimination on public transports (“Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography”, n.d.). Jim Crow laws made the African Americans’ second class citizens of that…

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    The Mother of the Freedom Movement ‘ Rose Park’ One of the bravest black woman who played the role to have the equal rights for the white and black people in the United State. She became the reason for changes which established the equality and destructed the roots of disparity among the same citizens. Initially, while traveling into the public transportation in the United State; black people had to give their seats to the white if they wouldn’t do so, they were arrested by the police and…

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