During the late 1800's and early 1900's, there were a lot of injustices in the United States. The Progressive Movement, which began in the late 1800's attempted to bring about government reforms and correct injustices in America.…
This essay will discuss the connection between the protest movement in Selma, Alabama and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In addition, it will cover the roles in which the Alabama law officials, the national media attention, and the demonstrators from out of state played in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.…
V Education. This was a case in which the court ruled state laws making separate…
Martin Luther King Jr. is known for his work in desegregation and the end of of the most well known racial equality activists ever, and he lived during a period of time that had many unjust laws that created many problems for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. agreed with St. Augustine that a law that is unjust is actually not a law after all. Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in this idea was seen in his letter from a Birmingham Jail when he says, “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King Jr. mentioned multiple times in his letter that these unjust laws were extremely degrading, and denied African Americans basic human…
Should American citizens who were once incarcerated lose their right to vote? Currently across the nation American citizens who were once convicted of a felony has lost their right to vote, even after being released from prison, parole, probation, and paying all of their fines to the county or state in which they live. The term of this current condition is Felon disenfranchisement. Once being released back into society, Those who have been incarcerated are expected to pay due taxes and fees to the government.Why are the voting rights, which is part of the eight Amendment, taken away from an American citizen, after serving their sentence.…
Social Justice has been an emerging issue over the last century in today’s service environment of helping professionals. Social Justice is a mindset and an action for change. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines social justice, as “the ability people have to realize their potential in a society where they live. Classically, ‘justice’ referred to ensuring that individuals both fulfilled their societal roles, and received what was due from society. ‘Social justice’ is generally used to refer to a set of institutions which will enable people to lead a fulfilling life and be active contributors to their community.” Social justice is equality for all. When we live, work, go to school, see a doctor, and even attend church in a community that does not have an equal playing ground, oppression occurs. In 2010 the Counselors for Social Justice (CJS) Code of Ethics was formally endorsed. The code is meant to clarify the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics from a perspective of social justice. It provides action steps “to clarify how social justice-oriented counselors can transition ethical intent to ethical practice” (CJS Code of Ethics p. 2).…
In our everyday lives we come across barriers, barriers of inequality, barriers of exclusion, barriers that prevent us from accomplishing our goals and ambitions. However, do we let these obstacles get in the way of our wants and desires or our basic rights and privileges? No, we do not. We work as individuals and together to encourage positive change in today’s society. People of the past and present have demanded equality and the right to be included in things rightfully owed to them, resulting in either an influential change that is usually beneficial or occasionally, a hindrance.…
I believe that Frederick Douglass’s nonviolent acts of being an abolitionist because it was more effective for the abolishment of slavery. The abolitionist movement was when the abolitionist tried different techniques to get everyone’s attention on slavery. Frederick Douglass’s tech was to become a public speaker and let everyone know the wrongs of slavery. When on the other half John Brown robbed an armory and tried to gives slaves guns to rebel against slavery violently. But John Brown idea didn’t go exactly as planned... they took over the armory for about a week but in the end a lot of John Browns sons died during the “Raid On Harper’s Ferry”.…
The resolution I have been researching for the past month is “Resolved: Civil Disobedience in a Democracy is morally justified.” Although there is no single, agreed upon definition, many definitions are similar. Civil disobedience is usually defined along the lines of refusing to obey certain rules and laws as a form of non-violent protest of an unjust law, or any law that one opposes, and is often done to bring attention to said law. Through my research, I have found a number of arguments for civil disobedience within a democracy, as well as arguments against it.…
Assess the importance of CONGRESS in the advancement of African American Civil rights during the period 1865-1941?…
The dignity of difference is the theme in which I have based my project on it…
Human rights are the basic rights that everyone should be allowed. But in some places, people are not so fortunate in earning their freedom and equality rights. The novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman discusses how if the parents or guardians of the children have the decision on whether they want to unwind the child under their care. The ages for children to become unwound are between the ages of thirteen through eighteen. As you read the novel they convince the legal guardian that it’s a good thing to let your teen to become unwound. For it helps the society in giving out body parts to the ones in need. The problem caused by human rights is evident in both literatures as well as in real life.…
Walter D. Mignolo’s The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options successfully tracks the course of Western modernity, its reliance on coloniality, and presents a variety of ways in which decoloniality exists, and has always existed alongside the development of coloniality. He delivers insight on the ways that decolonial options emerged and has the potential to produce other new worlds. Chapter Six of his visionary work is devoted to proposing the potential of a decolonial future using the Zapatista theoretical revolution to develop his arguments. He highlights the unity of “doing through thinking, and thinking through doing” (Mignolo 2011, 23). In his narration of decoloniality through epistemic disobedience/delinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power, Mignolo emphasizes the notion of dignity. Mignolo points out the ways in which the Zapatista theoretical revolution (or any decolonial movement for that matter) creates space for individuals to gain back their dignity, and thus keep their indigenous sovereignty alive. Sovereignty, in this respect, is something that cannot be afforded by governments. Peter Kulchyski also explores a similar concept to Mignolo’s dignity in his work, Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights by explaining the vast difference between human rights and aboriginal rights. Kulchyski points out that the rights that are afforded to indigenous people by governments as human rights don’t go far enough to afford these people their own sovereignty. Using Kulchyski’s concept of aboriginal rights, and Mignolo’s ideas of dignity, I will argue that through individual dignity comes indigenous sovereignty, and thus the break-away from Colonial Matrix of Power. Furthermore, I will discuss Mignolo’s ‘Zero Point Epistemologies’ – how they exist all in the same time and same conditions, but are all very different, and do not make one…
You can not put on the news without seeing at least one story about social inequality or injustice. This issue is not limited to America, it is a problem facing the entire world. Social inequity is a global problem making it extremely important to raise awareness of the topic. Inequities such as racism and sexism impact teenagers in America, but authors effects on readers using various genres of literature can be used as a tool to promote tolerance and reduce the effects of inequities. Racism and sexism affect people in schools, the workplace, and almost everywhere. Through the words of authors, society can learn the various perspectives of people affected by social inequities.…
1. High School students may learn facts that they can get in joining the retreat.…