How Did Black People Impact The World
The month of February is black history month, there has been many stories told how black people have made huge impacts on the world. In Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. There is no saying where they should be separated nor treated differently, and all of that ended because of the civil rights act of 1964.
For one example Mildred Loving i recently did a research project about her. She fell in love with a white man Richard, they got married in the state of Virginia. Of course the laws say that marriage shall not be interacial. They were forced to leave there home and move to the city for 25 years. They finally had enough of the city when their son was hit by a car. Mildred wrote the attorney General Robert Kennedy, who suggested she contact the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1976 the U.S Supreme Court struck down the Virginia law, also ending the remaining ban on interracial marriages in other states. Mildred and Richard got to live happily with their 3 children and were unbothered. She made a huge impact on the world by making a huge deal about not being able to marry different races.
Another big impact on the world was Hank Aaron, he was a black baseball player who played for the Atlanta Braves. He had a tough time playing …show more content…
Kennedy became president in 1961, African Americans throughout much of the south were denied the right to vote, barred from public facilities, subjected to insults and violence, and could not expect justice from the courts. Kennedy was reluctant to push ahead with civil rights act. He made it to where blacks can vote and have equal rights to whatever whites had. Kennedy made it to where blacks were treated equally. During that process the African Americans could not wait for this to happen. Martin Luther King JR was a big part of this him and Kennedy were very close. Without Kennedy blacks would have not been able to do many
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. There is no saying where they should be separated nor treated differently, and all of that ended because of the civil rights act of 1964.
For one example Mildred Loving i recently did a research project about her. She fell in love with a white man Richard, they got married in the state of Virginia. Of course the laws say that marriage shall not be interacial. They were forced to leave there home and move to the city for 25 years. They finally had enough of the city when their son was hit by a car. Mildred wrote the attorney General Robert Kennedy, who suggested she contact the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1976 the U.S Supreme Court struck down the Virginia law, also ending the remaining ban on interracial marriages in other states. Mildred and Richard got to live happily with their 3 children and were unbothered. She made a huge impact on the world by making a huge deal about not being able to marry different races.
Another big impact on the world was Hank Aaron, he was a black baseball player who played for the Atlanta Braves. He had a tough time playing …show more content…
Kennedy became president in 1961, African Americans throughout much of the south were denied the right to vote, barred from public facilities, subjected to insults and violence, and could not expect justice from the courts. Kennedy was reluctant to push ahead with civil rights act. He made it to where blacks can vote and have equal rights to whatever whites had. Kennedy made it to where blacks were treated equally. During that process the African Americans could not wait for this to happen. Martin Luther King JR was a big part of this him and Kennedy were very close. Without Kennedy blacks would have not been able to do many