Category: Civil Rights Movement

You can not separate Peace from Freedom because if one man does not have freedom he shall never have peace (Malcom X) . Malcom is presenting that one man can never have peace of mind without freedom because without freedom the man would never know how he would be treated in day to day life…

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) and other African American leaders decided to concentrate their power in the most segregated city in Americas Birmingham, Alabama. As the nonviolent protest increased MLK was arrested in April 12, 1963 for…

On April 14, 1954, Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the position of pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. As we know now, that decision would set off a chain of events that would lead King to become the spokesperson of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), and…

The fight for reproductive rights has been a long and continuous one that has been prominent for centuries. A womans right to have control and power over her own body and its abilities has been historically difficult to achieve, due to the patriarchal structure of our society, and is a battle that women are still…

Identification and evaluation of sources The aim of this investigation is to answer the research question to what extent did Martin Luther King Jr successfully achieve the civil rights movement between the years 1963-1968?, and I will be assessing how far he accomplished his aims, where he hoped to achieve three things: an improvement of…

Many minority groups, including Aboriginals an, have struggled in finding their of these rights in the past, and continue to do so today. The late 1800s to the late 1900s was an extremely difficult time for Indigenous Australians and was is one of the darkest periods of Australian history. Many Indigenous children during this time…

Frederick Douglass began a Bible study for the African Americans who couldnt read and didnt have access to the Bible on the plantation. However, it only lasted for so long until the slave owners found out and demanded against their practices. which in reality was going against the freedom of religion because most of the…

Malcolm X was a radical leader in the Black Civil Rights Movement, while Emmeline Pankhurst was a militant suffragette leader in obtaining the voting right for women. Although both of them have played important roles and made significant contributions to the two movements respectively, we firmly believe that Emmeline Pankhurst was a more effective leader…

Simeon Wright, Emmet Tills cousin, once wrote It never occurred to me that Bobo would be killed for whistling at a white woman. This quote could not be any truer for how Emmett Till faced his murder in Money, Mississippi after playing a prank on a white lady. Tills story created recognition on the bigotry…

On August 31, 1955, the body of Emmett Till was found at the bottom of the Tallahatchie River in northern Mississippi. Beaten to a pulp and with his eye gouged out, his face was disfigured almost beyond recognition. His great-uncle Moses Wright may have only recognized him because the 14-year-old boy was still wearing his…