Selma

Looking back at my short life I seem to have 20/20 vision. I see the choices that I have made and the outcomes that have happened. I would like to share a very important choice that I’ve made about joining the Navy. It’s been eleven years now since I made this life altering decision. In the year 2002, I was sixteen years old and in high school wood shop. I remember my teacher Mr. Cox making an announcement to the class. “Everyone that would like to receive extra credit can go take the…

Believing in equal rights is important, but it is only those who speak up who are the ones who make a difference. Around the 1950s, segregation was worse than ever. Most people decided to just go along with it even if they did not agree, but others decided there needed to be a change. Coretta Scott King witnessed hate towards black people and women during her lifetime, which caused her to speak up for her community and an end to the hate. Growing up in the segregated South, Coretta Scott knew…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…