Earl Warren was a Supreme Court judge who was a republican and became more liberal with time. He influenced America's political development with various liberal Supreme Court decisions as Chief Justice. Such as in Gideon v. Wainwright, which ruled that the state's are required to "provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys" under the 6th amendment. He also heavily influenced America with his decision in Brown v. Board of Education
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A voice is what we are given, and that voice will be used for something powerful. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact our free society because of our actions. No harm is being done to the other party when ones actions are silent. They might be silent but are powerful by all means. A free society says it all in the name FREE. Free actions, speech and movements. So why wouldn't it be a positive impact. Rosa parks was a civil rights activist during her time and is known for her leadership
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King was a Baptist minister and a social activist who played a major role as being a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He had a huge impact on race relations in the United States during the mid-1950s and fought for equal freedoms for blacks and whites. Dr. King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, created many inspirational speeches, and played a great role in ending the legal segregation of African-American
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President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech address the theme of American democracy in many ways. Some similar ways, but others different. In both speeches they talk about how everyone needs to be equal, and treated fairly. Not everything in the two speeches are the same, but very similar. They both just want equality, and fairness between all. No matter what skin color, hair color, eyes. No matter what clothes you wear. We are all equal, and that's
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Over the years, I have attended many college football games in which the marching bands live performances are the main event, especially at predominately African-American Colleges & Universities where the competition is fierce. As an African-American man, my connection with these marching bands is meaningful because each performance is strongly influenced by our culture, which is a reminder for me how integrated we are into the American culture; however, we do not receive the recognition that we
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Every day there are new obstacles that get in the way of life; whether they’re political, economic, educational, familial, or societal. In the book, Hidden Figures, a nonfictional narrative written by Margot Lee Shetterly, Shetterly describes the lives of four women and other African-Americans, and the obstacles they had to overcome growing up as African-Americans in Hampton Virginia during the early to late 1900’s. While those women had many amazing personality traits and characteristics that helped
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obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” (Henry David Thoreau, 1849, “Civil Disobedience”) According to “Documents of Freedom,” Civil disobedience is when “Men such as Martin Luther King, Jr. violated unjust laws but willingly accepted the punishment that came with violating the law… often confused with simply violating laws that you do not like…Civil disobedience demands to accept the punishment otherwise, there would
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The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott was a success in bringing equality among the racial segregation within buses. When the boycotted started, it was led by Martin Luther King Jr., who insisted their campaign would be a nonviolent approach. According to Document 2, King didn’t care whether he was arrested, jailed, and breaking the black discriminating laws or not. Instead he wanted his followers to be nonviolent in their protest and for his point to be made. He knew that if they acted aggressively, then
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stands Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Being an African American man living in the mid-twentieth century was not easy and people like King faced wrongful discrimination and segregation daily. It is not a pleasant time in history to think back on, yet this does not mean that what happened during this century should be forgotten. King experienced segregation since childhood, when he was restricted from playing with one of his white friends by their mother when she separated the two and told Martin that her
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What if everything you knew about the March on Washington, and other large portions of the civil rights movement, was skewed due a lie of omission? Everyone has heard of Martin Luther King Jr., but few have heard of the man who was a mentor of Dr. King and planned the entire March on Washington. It is my pleasure to introduce you to the man who has been described as a “lost prophet” of the civil rights movement. On Sunday, November 15, at 2:00pm, my mom and I went to see the last showing of a wonderful
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