...Firstly, Martin Luther King Jr. was an extremely large contributor in gaining civil right of African Americans during the civil rights movements, whose passion for non-violent protesting set an affecting tone in the civil rights movements. Martin Luther King had a large contribution to the reduced amount of injustice and discrimination against African Americans which is present today. As a highly influential social activist in the movements, King created mass publicity highlighting the atrocities which African American citizens were subjected to, which can be demonstrated through the statement “In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King travelled over 6 million miles and has spoken more than 2500 speeches on many stages” (What did...
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...It is said that, “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” Prejudice is therefore created by a lack of understanding and knowledge. This lack of understanding through discrimination has resulted in mass shootings, slavery, the attempted extinction of an entire race, and many other atrocities. Being prejudice is having preconceived opinions, ideas, or beliefs about others not based on reason. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 30s, a time of intense racism and prejudice in the United States. In the story Tom Robinson, a black man is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Tom’s lawyer, Atticus, proves to the court that he couldn’t have raped Mayella because he only had one functioning arm. Despite the fact that...
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...Cameron Busby 2/25/15 Prof. Peters Black Political Identity REACTION PAPER 1 “Where is the Black man’s government? Where is his King and his Kingdom? Where is his President, his Ambassador, his army; his navy, his men of big affairs?” ‘MARCUS GARVEY’ It is this poignant thought that countless Pan African people have sought to define and answer, and bring to reality throughout the Pan African movement and struggles. From Prophecy to Policy: Marcus Garvey and Evolution of Pan African Citizenship by Claudius Fergus is a historic overview of the organization and outcomes of the Pan African and African Dispora political agenda from 1600’s to the middle 2000’s culminating in the African Union and the implementation of the Sixth Union. Fergus documents the historic, worldwide, movement to end social, economic and political injustice for all African people. Fergus introduces that the focus of European colonization in the 17 th century took place in the Caribbean because of the sugar industry. Europeans needed cheap labor and sought African slave labor to be used as chattel on sugar plantations. The atrocities continued for hundreds of years when finally the nation of Jamaica and Haiti fought for the decolonization and physical freedom against exploitation. These wars took place in the late 1700’s. The knowledge of the black man physically fighting in the Caribbean is contrary to the tales of the docile American slave Dispora. Fergus also tells of the Eighty-Year’s Maroon War...
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...Among the African American writers, Richard Wright came into prominence, with his artistic expression interested with the social difficulties of the United States and the reality of African Americans as an oppressed minority. Richard Wright wrote his reactions against the inadequacies of blacks in the American society. The fiction of Richard Wright surveys the struggle of the African-American man to form an identity and to be free from the restraints placed by society. The protagonist is Wright's who wish to be his identity never defined by their race. The young Richard Wright try to form the identity for him that never transcend racial boundaries. Because of this desire, he has suffering relating wholly to either white society or black society...
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...The Tuskegee Research Study on Syphilis Stephan J. Skotko University of Phoenix January 13, 2010 HCS-435 Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility Edward Casey Every person or family member who has faced a medical crisis during his or her lifetime has at one point hoped for an immediate cure, a process that would deter any sort of painful or prolonged convalescence. Medical research always has paralleled a cure or treatment. From the beginning of the turn of the 20th century the most unspeakable appalling atrocities against human beings was The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. One of the most horrendous breaches of ethics in The United States history is Tuskegee’s studies and associated research. . The study and the publicity that surrounded the study was one of the major influences leading to the organized arrangement of laws, rules and principles of the ethical treatment for human beings. Examples of which include; informed consent, patients personal autonomy, patients’ bill of rights, medical code of ethics, and limits to a practitioners professional autonomy. Miracle cures like penicillin and other antibiotics have proven the value of research. Many illnesses and diseases are currently under heavy research. Although not much research can give results that penicillin or other antibiotics have attained does not invalidate the necessity of research and the importance of it. There exist copious treatments...
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...reality of the movement. Film and theater have shown representations of African American life during the movement. Radio has been used to spread the message of the movement. All of these forms of entertainment were used to reflect the politics, beliefs, ideologies and the experience of the Civil Rights Movement. The music of the 1950’s and 1960’s has been the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Music has been used to lift up the spirits and used to motivate those involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Different genres of music have been used over the course of the movement. At first gospel music was the main form of music used during the movement. Songs such as “This Little Light of Mine” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” were sang to show the optimism and hope for change in the United States for African...
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...B. U.S. leader: Martin Luther King, Jr. The two most significant changes brought about by the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. was an end to racial segregation and giving Blacks the right to vote. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader and activist during the African-American Civil Rights Movement. In 1957, King helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the goal of ending segregation in the South. The group engaged in non-violent protests in support of civil rights reform. Martin Luther King met with President John F. Kennedy on June 23, 1960 to discuss plans to end racial segregation. President John F. Kennedy revealed plans to pursue an all-inclusive civil rights bill in Congress. His legislation was filibustered...
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...creative nonviolence to lance the wound of racism, segregation and injustice. Like the clergymen Dr. King was a man of faith who believed in using nonviolence to achieve moral justice. A figure such as Malcolm X who didn’t see the advantage of a nonviolent approach would have been unsuccessful when attempted to communicate with the clergymen. Dr. King traveled to Birmingham to draw attention to injustice in order to create change, he had to make a statement to not only Birmingham but to the whole country about the evils of society. The actions of Dr. King and the entire African American people were justified since they were fighting for a necessary change despite possibly breaking any laws. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King’s stated, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” commanding attention in order to provide a voice to the voiceless to stand up to unjust treatment of African...
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...Renowned civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his notorious speech, “I Have a Dream”, in the midst of societal strife across the United States. Throughout his oration, King lances at the status quo, one where African Americans are degraded and demeaned to the sewers of American society; instead, he proposes a new country—a new way—where African Americans will fight until they obtain the rights they were originally promised. In superb recognition of his audience, King uses a litany of devices, from metaphors to anaphora, in order to develop rage within the audience—a unifying quality that would undoubtedly drive a movement facing gusty headwinds. Intending to concisely state the purpose of his speech, Martin Luther King utilizes...
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...Despite the fact that African Diaspora had to cover a long way to cement its unique ecclesial pace, it has finally managed to become the major spiritual, social, political, and cultural institution uniting its followers of African descent. The history of Black Church formation accounts for the fact that its spiritual domain is not detached from the empirical one. This religious community was formed not for abstract theoretical speculations but out of need to create a secure space where believers can find comfort, healing of body and soul, support, and understanding necessary for developing qualities that, according to their beliefs, shape a human being. Therefore, each individual is viewed as grounded in the Black Church community that values equal relationships between its members and between self and the universe. According to J. A. Joseph, “African-Americans connection to the Black church is directly linked to the overriding belief among African-Americans that service to God is linked to service to humanity.” To this note, the paper at hand is going to prove that African Diaspora fully expresses itself in the Black Church as a people-oriented community taking care of its every single member. Historical Background of the...
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...The documentary "Eyes on the Prize" focuses primarily on the segregation and mistreatment of African-Americans in the United States, which lead to the Civil Rights Movement. The documentary utilizes footage accumulated over many years, giving the viewer an in depth and unique view into the various eras of time. In the documentary there were interviews with a diverse selection of people from scholars and historians to victims of segregation and individuals who were active in the Civil Rights Movement. In "Eyes on the Prize", several African-Americans told their stories of segregation, racism and violence; these were accompanied by horrific and unsettling video clips of violence and mistreatment. The documentary was able to drive its narrative...
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...Historical Report on Race Paula Arellano ETH125 September 3, 2012 University of Phoenix Historical Report on Race I will be doing my report as an Historian. (“In 1952 segregation on inter-state railways was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court”) (Freedom Riders http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfreedomR.htm). In 1954 there was a similar judgment with inter-state buses. The Deep South kept their segregation policies involving whites sitting in the front of the bus, and blacks sitting closest to the front having to give up their seats to whites. African Americans were punished if they did not abide by the transport segregation policies. They were fined and arrested. Martin Luther King JR helped organize a protest against bus segregation after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat to a white man. This protest involved a bus boycott which involved African Americans not ride any bus unless it was integrated Martin Luther King JRs house was fire bombed he was arrested due to this protest and boycott. Anyone that was involved in this boycott was intimidated and harassed, but none of this stopped the boycott. The Montgomery bus company was forced by the Supreme Court to accept integration on their busses after the 13 month boycott. In 1961 The Congress of Racial Equality formed the Free Rides. The Freedom Riders which consist of black and white volunteers began their journey through the Deep South on May 4th, 1961 stopping at “white”...
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...victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrates against humanity...they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity” (1). By connecting the issue to the death of these innocent young girls, he makes the issue of racial discrimination a personal issue for the audience. The victims were young members of this community which allowed Dr. King to appeal to the community’s pathos. King appeals to pathos within his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as he references children seeing “vicious mobs lynch [their] mothers and fathers at will and drown [their] sisters and brothers at whim” (3). No one should have to watch their family members’ deaths, especially a child having to watch these atrocities. The mention of these horrors draws the listener's mind into imagining how it would feel if they had to go through that awful experience, and sympathies for the thousands to negro children who have to live with those memories. In touching the audience's emotional side, King creates a stronger connection with the listener, and heightens the chances of the them joining the...
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...because he was actually involved in it. It was also written fairly recently, so that enables the book to analyze the long term effects that it has had on African-Americans, the South, and history in general. Gray’s book provides a very informative study, but if you’re looking for more information, check out James Jones’ Bad Blood. Gray takes a lot of information from this book which was written about 20 years before his. When searching the web for information on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the results were quite slim. Most of the results involved syllabi for college classes or websites much like our own that were prepared for a class. The website that I reviewed is from the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics, which was actually created from President Clinton’s apology and ideas for improvement of racial relations and medical testing. The webpage’s main purpose is to educate the public about the atrocities that were performed on African-Americans in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and to help prevent an event like this from ever happening again The Tuskegee Syphilis Study by Fred D. Gray examines a medical study that occurred in Tuskegee, Alabama which dealt with monitoring African-American subjects discover the effects of untreated syphilis. The main goal of the study was to seek out African-American males in the second stage of syphilis, and then to sporadically perform exams on these men to determine the effects that syphilis had on their bodies...
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...the rank, constraint the soul, and destroyed the lives. In Richard Wright’s enriching poem “Between the World and Me” (1935), a lynching is depicted and greatly astonished and influenced the speaker. Through the use of structure, religious symbolization, and diction, Wright successfully establishes the indignation that danced among the words. Structure is a great component in the poem. The poem’s structure channeled bountiful information regard the complex emotions within the narrator. The poem started with the word “and” and followed the word “suddenly.” A time sequence is suggested here. It is believed that the speaker tells his story from the middle of the memory. Such actions are much often recognized on “people who have survived atrocities. It is difficult for them to remain clearheaded and calm, to see more than a few fragments of the picture at one time, to retain all the pieces, and to fit them together” (Herman 1). In addition, the fragment sentences that display throughout the poem corroborate the point that the teller is traumatized. Furthermore, the poem can simply be chunks into four sections by the appearance of four periods. These groups of four periods not only separate the poem but also show a continuation of thoughts. They represent the broken, incomplete, and deficient memory of the speaker. Therefore, the narrator is absolutely astonishes by the scene and cannot organizes his thoughts in a logic way. With the repetition of “And”, “There was/were”, and “a”...
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