Civil Rights activist W.E.B Du Bois once said, “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.” African Americans were not treated with equal respect as whites, making them a poor race. They were unfairly treated during the twentieth century because the color of their skin was not white; however, they soon grew tired of being discriminated against and fought for their rights. Jim Crow was an unfair racial caste system that many states adopted
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which would bring about radical change for the black race. "Anything you can think of that you want to change right now, the only way you can do it is with a ballot or a bullet. And if you're not ready to get involved with either one of those, you are satisfied with the status quo. That means we'll have to change you." (Malcolm X) While Martin Luther King promoted non-violence, civil rights, and the end to racial segregation, a man of the name of Malcolm X dreamed of a separate nation. Martin Luther
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changed the world forever. Dr. King’s Traits and Characteristics Dr. King was an Honest, god-fearing, loving person who got his roots in the African American church. Dr. King was a visionary who knew how to keep his eyes on the prize of equal rights, and he also had an ability that few possess to this day. He had the ability to people who normally would be feuding to work together toward a common cause. His famous “I Have a Dream” speech is a great testament to Dr. King’s ability to move the
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Ruth Ann Monroe (1941-2005) Mrs. Ruth Monroe was born on June 18, 1941 and died of cancer on October 19, 2005 at age 64. Who was Ruth Ann Monroe? Ruth Monroe was born in Hagerstown, the sixth of eight children, and raised in a deeply religious household. In raising her own children, she sought to install the same values. In the early 1980s, for about 20 years, Monroe was the director of the Memorial Recreation Center, which is in the old North Street Elementary School. At the Rec Center she provided
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with his piecemeal assault on and destruction of them. Mao also seems to have had in mind the idea that student youth could be mobilized to attack the evils in the establishment and purge China revisionism. It would be a form to manipulate mass movement, which his experience told him, was the engine of social change. (387) The Cultural Revolution, like the Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Great Leap Forward, turned out to be something he had not envisioned. Allowing for many variations, the
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Kayla Farrant English 1550 Professor Roberts 10/16/2013 The Trippy Days “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.” This is a famous quote by John Lennon, a key model figure in the “counter-culture era”. If I invented a time machine and traveled back through time, I would stop in the year 1964. During this time period, the world started to change from a black and white opinion to the freedom
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. The Vietnam War left many scars on the people of the United States and had an even greater effect on the country. The reputation of our country changed as people began to have different views on the government, people’s constitutional rights, and the proper role of the media. The changing of perspectives of the people led to the country being split and angry. The Vietnam War was a fight over the government’s power, the war itself, and the draft for the war. The Truman doctrine was created
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Katz December 11, 2014 Bayard Rustin and the Lost Prophet A master strategist and an activist for Civil Rights, Bayard Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi’s tactics of non-violence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence
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society as a whole, the problems or issues that they resolved, and how they were able to come up with their solutions. Contributions to Society Self made multi-billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. Everyone in America recognizes the name Bill Gates; it is hard not to be famous when you are the richest self-made man in America. The contributions to society made by Mr. Gates are numerous, but most notable and arguably his best is his company Microsoft
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road cart. He was then asked to leave his seat and sit in the “colored” cart because he was consider African American. Plessy refused and was immediately arrested. His case ended up in the US Supreme Court which ultimately proclaimed that Plessy's rights were not discredited because, the separate location provided to blacks were just as equal to those provided to the whites. This event adopted the “separate but equal” doctrine in the constitutional law. It was determined that all public service’s
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