Amelia Hammon Moral Courage

Impacting the World to Make a Change When a thought of a hero comes to mind, do they have moral courage? Is it the thought of them saving others, or putting their lives out on the line, or a sort of action that made them stand out more than others? Moral courage is the action of a hero that will help others, even if the outcome has harmful consequences. Amelia Boynton was a Civil Rights activist, that was one of the very first and the few women who was registered to vote, and it all first began when she started working alongside with her mom at a young age. She worked a lot with Martin Luther King Jr. and was a huge influence on him to do more marches to protest the way they were being treated. Boynton was very passionate with helping other
The fight for Civil Rights gained ground when Amelia Boynton found the courage and strength to stand up and fight for equal rights for all African Americans as well as woman in the United States. Amelia was one of the very few African American women that got registered to vote, because of that she wanted to help others to be able to register even if she failed. All of Amelia’s work to help her own race was a time consuming role, that she was willing to work at, from being a civil rights activist, marching to protest the inequality to being beaten and gassed. All of these contributions has made her world wide famous, that she became known as one of the longest living icons, to getting a statement from the White House, to getting a movie made off of the fifty-mile march, known as “Bloody Sunday”. Amelia made an impact on society today, by helping woman and African Americans to have the right to vote and have freedom without being abused. While Amelia had suffered through getting beaten, gassed, dragged down a street and arrested, it only made her want to stand up and prove the mistreatment they were getting and that it did not matter the color of skin or being a woman, everyone has the same