Examples Of Persecution

Throughout history and around the world, people have suffered oppression. The Pilgrims who moved to America, the Jews in Germany and slaves in America are several examples of persecution in history. Though this was evident, there were people who risked their lives to stop this and bring justice. There are many different means of persecution that has been created. Oppression, persecution and discrimination was and is very common in our country and around the world. As time goes on, people created more and more reasons to persecute because they were different. Women, blacks and people who have different religions were originally persecuted but now many things are frowned upon and hated. Upon the end of the civil war, the blacks were freed from
The blind were seen as beggars who couldn’t do anything for themselves and were considered worthless. In scripture, the blind man was put on the side of the water to beg for money because he could not work for his food. Soldiers had come up to him to tell him that because it was the Sabbath, no man could work on that day, even though that was the only way he could feed himself. In 1598-1601, the English Elizabethan Poor Laws were created and evicted the disabled, including the blind and mentally ill, from hospitals and shelters for the poor (Development 1). The justice to the blind wouldn’t come for quite a while. Until 1809 to be exact. Louis Braille was born on January 4th, 1809 in a small town in France near Paris called Coupvray (Cannon 1). Louis was a perfectly healthy baby born into the Braille family. His father was Simon Braille and his mother was Constance Braille. The Braille family were farmers and they lived on a farm with their son (Ask 1). Louis was an only child and, as any young boy would be, very
He created symbols for math and music in that same year (Tubb 27). During this time, he and his students were trying desperately to lift the ban on braille. Louis was not able to teach so he used his time to fine tune his language (Tubb 27). In 1847, the first braille printing press was built. At this time, it was very hard to keep the language inside the walls of the school. The officials at the school had lifted the ban and shortly after that, Louis died of tuberculosis on January 6th, 1852 at the age of 43. Once the ban was lifted, the language had quickly spread through the institution leading to the translation of many different books (Fradin 40). The officials also erected a statue of Louis and his students quickly wrote down his story (Fradin 40). After the invention of Braille, many people who were blind began to learn how to read and write. Some even became famous. Hellen Keller is one of those individuals. She was born on June 27, 1880 to Kate and Arthur Keller in Alabama. At nineteen months, she was struck with an illness that left her blind, deaf, and mute (Williams 1). She remained in a state of sensory deprivation until the age of six when her family hired a young tutor for her named Anne Sullivan, who was also blind. With the help of Anne, Helen managed to master manual lip reading, handwriting, typewriting, braille, and basic speech (Williams