For many years America has justified the separation of people due to skin color‚ this was known as segregation. Eventually people began to stand up against this oppression‚ these actions and events will later be known as the civil rights movement‚ a movement that has spread all across america causing uprisings all over for the fight for desegregation. People such as Dr.Martin Luther King‚ Ida B. Wells‚ Rosa Parks and the students of Little Rock‚ known as Little Rock Nine are all major historical
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Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr’s life has greatly influenced my life by giving more rights to blacks‚ using powerful words to get his message across‚and being non-violent.. Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr used nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christianity belief. It is pretty hard to be nonviolent when you see your own kind being tortured and killed constantly. Dr. King was a very strong man. Martin Luther King gave more rights to blacks. If he did not give this speech‚ then I would not be going
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Martin Luther King was a civil right activist and Christian preacher who expressed the reasons behind the reasons of why african americans were protesting for their civil rights through a letter to the clergymen in Birmingham. King goes on to express his argument by giving an idea on what african americans go through in a society where police brutality and denial of freedom is present in the everyday lives of african americans in Birmingham. He pushes his purpose even further by getting the clergymen
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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are two very widely known African Americans who made historic impacts while standing for what they believed in and holding prominent events. The most common known difference between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is that one used violence when “making his voice heard” and the other didn’t‚ but both protested for the same purpose and with the same intentions. What some may not know‚ is why both acted in such opposing ways. Though both leaders suffered and
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adversity establishes that one encounters characteristics within oneself through hardship versus successful times which is a perpetuated belief within society. Not only is this ideology common‚ but in fact true‚ as prominent examples such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama overcoming racial discrimination‚ as well as those deriving from difficult childhoods such as Oprah Winfrey and Albert Einstein. When one is discriminated against for something he or she cannot change like skin color‚ this
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through the protest of Gandhi‚ Martin Luther King Jr‚ and Nelson Mandela which lead to a better world for these courageous people. First example of a courageous person who choose to face their conflict with a more peaceful resolution is Gandhi. Gandhi faced nearly impossible odds when he took a stance on the Britain Army who were in his home country of India which in the time was under Britain control. Gandhi’s conflict with Britain rule was simple yet massive he was opposing the Britain rule in
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If everyone lived inside of society‚ everything would be different. Everyone would all think the same way and it would get boring. Martin Luther King Jr. was a social outcast because his vision didn’t stick to the normal ways of society and now because of him people of color and white people can use the same water fountain‚ live in the same building‚ and even live in the same house without being looked down upon. Albert Einstein‚ also a social outcast‚ couldn’t accept the way things were being taught
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Martin Luther King was an great leader. He was a pacifist‚ he didn’t believe in war. Martin Luther King believed in peace‚ happiness‚ and equality. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Both of these great leaders believed in equality for the African Americans. (5) Abraham Lincoln’s early life was plain and simple. Abraham was born in the backwoods cabin‚ three miles South of Hodgenville‚ Kentucky. In his toddler life he was taken to a farm in the neighboring valley of Knob
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A Man’s Dream‚ a Reality It’s hard to imagine how one man can change a nation with a simple idea of equality. Dating back to the 1960’s‚ people were treated differently depending on their race‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ and sexual background. Whites males were the superior to everyone else and blacks‚ or African Americans‚ were looked down upon. While African Americans were treated better in the 1960’s than they were in the 1860’s when they were slaves in the United States‚ they still were treated unequally
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Birmingham Jail‚” Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ one of the most influential and significant civil rights movement figure‚ delivered a strong message defending African American’s necessity of demanding civil rights and arguing reformation of unjust laws. Since the very beginning of slavery in U.S.‚ African Americans have not been able to escape from practices of dehumanization. When hope had finally shone along with the abolishment of slavery‚ a shadow followed as this minority community was being labeled
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