Martin Luther King III

Simon Wendt’s article “God, Gandhi, and Guns” and Ted Shine’s one act play “Contribution” revolve around the American Civil Rights Movement. Both works emphasize the success of non-violent protests in the Civil Rights Movement; however, each work recognize how the use of force in conjunction with non-violence can be effective. Simon Wendt discusses the importance of an armed black defense organization in Tuscaloosa and Ted Shine discusses the use of assassination as an effective tool in social…

Many of the world's most famous inventors only engendered one major invention that garnered apperception and cemented their prominent status. But Garret Augustus Morgan, one of the country's most prosperous African-American inventors, created two – the gas mask and the traffic signal ("Garrett A. Morgan"). The very invention of the tri-colored traffic signal that Garret Morgan patented in 1923, utilizes the same technology we use today and has saved millions of lives. Through this research paper…

Should professional athletes use their status to protest the events taking place today? This is a common question being asked today, and some people say that it is alright for professional athletes to utilize their status, nevertheless it is disrespectful for them to not stand for the national anthem. Others say that professional athletes shouldn’t use their status to protest the events taking place today, and that is what I agree with. Athletes shouldn’t mix politics and sports. For example,…

There some people in the society are like Pino. People who think that every black people is bad just because of the act of one. Sal is like those mediator in our society. People who makes improvement in our society in their own ways, like Rev. Martin Luther King. While in Radio Raheem scene where he died, shows and represents the killings of African-American male in our society. The abuse of power, the discrimination, and the battle of love and hate things that we should solve and ended.…

challenge. Being able to risk yourself for the benefit of others. Something that Jackie was able to do even under extreme circumstances. King also made sacrifices that changed the lives of blacks to this. It took him to death. King died for professing against the ideas of oppression and segregation and fighting towards equality. That type of sacrifice is enormous, King was able to put his life on the line for the lives of generations to…

I believe that Anne Moody’s main point in this second section of the book is that you got to stand up and almost die for what you believe in if you want to see change but sometimes even that’s not enough and sometimes you have to wonder what is enough and if the world will ever change. Today, this is still true people still write songs about how the world could and needs to be better. Even though now African Americans can vote and we even have had an African-American president things are still…

“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation,” by Coretta Scott King. I believe that freedom has to be rewon. In every generation freedom has to be rewon because people that make a difference only make a difference in that time of age. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s. In the spring of 1963, he gave a speech “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation…

Black power in many ways signified everything non-violence was not, racial hatred, violence and extreme self-reliance. However the two approaches did have many similarities in their long-term objectives. Both demanded complete equality not jus in theory but in practice. Where they differed most was in the methods used to achieve this goal and the time they were prepared to wait for progress to be made.The philosophy of non-violence was heavily rooted in religion and common sense. To succeed…

Two score and ten years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the words of the “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The speech is richly endowed with context as it came five score years after President Abraham Lincoln’s iconic “Gettysburg Address”. Lincoln’s proposition and steeled by Martin Luther King’s vision that our “nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”, could not long endure unless we make good on…

Here in Florida there many substance abuse treatment facilities, in fact, there are so many substance abuse treatment facilities, that Southern Florida is not considered the substance abuse treatment center of the world. “Over the years Florida has also become known for something a little more unique than just for its beaches and Disney World. Specifically, Florida has recently been referred to as “the recovery capital of the world” with the epicenter being roughly between Fort Lauderdale and…