Selma

ary 1960, a group of African-American students began what became known as the "sit-in" movement in Greensboro, North Carolina. The students would sit at racially segregated lunch counters in the city's stores. When asked to leave or sit in the colored section, they just remained seated, subjecting themselves to verbal and sometimes physical abuse. The movement quickly gained traction in several other cities. In April 1960, the SCLC held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina…

king gave his “I Have a Dream” speech and touched millions, and on August 28, 1963 he lead the historic March on Washington which drew more than 200,000 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. On March 7, 1965, a civil rights march was planned from Selma to Montgomery and turned violent, Police had tear gas and nightsticks, dogs and horses as they tried to stop them from crossing the Edmond Pettus. In late 1965 to 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his Civil Rights Movement into other…

Actress Alyssa Milano was quoted as saying “You know, I think people are more comfortable sexualizing breasts than relating them to what they were made for, which is feeding another human. It’s crazy.” Olivia Wilde said “I was shocked that there were still people who find it (breastfeeding) inappropriate because they think it’s a sexual thing. I think that says a lot about them.” Breastfeeding is a natural practice that has taken place since the beginning of time and mothers who chose to…

publicize the issue of lynching, as begun by Ida B. Wells in the 1890s. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) encouraged nonviolent protests, in response to the Sixteenth Street Church Bombing (1963) and fighting for voting rights in Selma (1965), among other instances. The ‘63 bombing was a reaction from the KKK, who feared the progress being made; however, the bombing backfired, and served as a catalyst for the passing of the voting rights act. The Mississippi Freedom…

Although Beowulf is still the hero he discovers that Grendel had a son with a witch Selma (Selma not mentioned in the book at nor how she had a child with grendel added as a dramatic scene for hollywood.) Then there is the possibility of the story to repeat again with Grendel's son, because his father and grandmother were both killed due to…

Women’s Bodies: A Battleground of Sexuality and Violence Women in Eastern Europe were subjected to many horrors during the 20th century, both in times of peace and times of war. They had to endure war and the killing of civilians through bombs and general warfare, but there were also violences against women that were specific to women, including military brothels, rape camps, and sex trafficking. Besides these women had many problems to deal with in the household, domestic abuse was on the rise…

A contrast between prejudice and Beowulf vs Grendel. Would anyone be okay with death over judgement? In life people judge others for many things whether it's from your appearance to your personality or perhaps for being a monster like Grendel. Due to the ignorance of humans prejudice this is an old yet modern new item in Beowulf this is the cause of many tragedies like: cultural clashes, people arguing and the use of violence that sometimes leads to death. In both Beowulf the epic and…

Revolutionary War, “So it was at Lexington and Concord.”, referring to the first times Americans united as a people to fight inequality. After a few historic allusions, Johnson proceeded to allude to a current event at the time, “So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.” That week…

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John Lewis was also the chairman of the student nonviolent coordination committee he was the youngest speaker at the march on washington. Although he used peaceful methods he was sometimes attacked in violent ways. Suddenly when he was marching from Selma to Montgomery to raise attention for blacks not being able to vote in the south, he was attacked by state troopers and was severely beaten, as well as suffering a fractured skull. John Lewis, who used his mind and sacrificed his flesh, to help…