On Sunday March 7, 1965, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Council without the help of Martin Luther King did a march along highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, The Capital. Demonstrators began the march from Selma to the State Capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the demonstrators were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies, right in front of the media for the whole Country to see. This caused a huge uproar all over, after viewing “Bloody Sunday”; many people came to join the cause and wanted to march again with SNCC and SCLC.
who was born and died January 15, 1929- April 4, 1968. In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the leadership of the first great Nero Macon Pg. 4 Nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. lead a boycott that lasted 382 days and on December 21, 1956 the Supreme Court of United States had declared unconstitutional the law requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during the boycott, his home was bombed and he was subjected to personal abuse.
don’t know yet 9. Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day because of the accomplishments made by King in his honor to end the legalization of segregation in the United States. One accomplishment by Martin Luther King was organizing desegregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Another accomplishment by King was mobilizing sit-ins and marches by thousands of school children. King was eventually arrested by Birmingham police officers along with thousands of children.
They both gave amazing speeches and influenced the media in a positive way. Gandhi can be best described as a humble, peaceful, wise, spiritual, ethical, modest, and courageous man. He was humble because even when he had accomplished all of these great things he never gloated and he never expected anything in return except the satisfaction of doing what he thought was right. One of Gandhi’s amazing accomplishments was when he led a 200 mile Salt March so that the people of India could make and gather their own salt. His goal was for the people of India not to buy salt from the British.
On Jan. 4 this year, a warrant was issued for Bond’s arrest after he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon doing great bodily harm. John Hicks, a family friend for 25 years, stood with Rivera outside the crime-scene tape and talked about Bond. “He told me they’d have to kill him before he’d go back to jail,” Hicks said. Diaz said his officers had been looking for Bond and found him at his mother’s home. Officers had been watching the residence, and about 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Bond left on his bicycle.
The Black Robe movie insinuate that all the Indians were evil and that is what justified their extermination, which is why Ward Churchill a troversialist criticized the movie because he claimed to be part Indian and said that the movie was "a deliberate exercise in vilification". Most people know that is not true that not all Indians are evil, but putting that false information may change people's mind because it is a historical movie. I think people should make the movie with only the facts that they know are true and correct to make the movie. In the Crucible the director of the movie stated that John was the one that said the prayer wrong, but in fact it was Elizabeth and that for me should have changed the outcome of the story. Like my last statement, it would harm people's knowledge on history, even though it doesn't look like it has great importance it is the small details that always count.
Antigone knows that by the law of the gods leaving a body uncovered is morally unjust. Martin Luther King addresses this very issue in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Although it was written 2,000 years later, it speaks to a similar topic, which civil disobedience. “An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law” (King 3). Antigone’s actions follow along with King’s four steps towards civil disobedience although there are differences because of the eras. Antigone responds to Creon’s edict with civil disobedience as King
The MIA(Montgomery Improvement Association) was formed with Martin Luther King as president. Leaflets were passed around the black community urging them to stop using the bus services. The effect was immense, with countless buses in Montgomery empty. An MIA meeting of 7000 was held in Holt Street Baptist Church, where it was decided that the boycott would continue. At that meeting Martin Luther King gave an inspiring speech that spread the boycott further among blacks.
Harry Williamson Response Paper Letter from a Birmingham jail In the article Disagreements About Civil Disobedience Divide America's Anti War Movement we are presented with several views of civil disobedience present in todays society. The sole goal of these organizations is to end the war in Iraq because the members believe what is happening overseas is unjust and immoral. The feud between the organizations is simple; what are the best steps to help end the war? The cultural relativism aspect of this situation is that America (our current day society) wants war with another country, these two organizations are attempting to change that view. On one side you have people like Patrick Reinsborough who is an Organizer of Direct Action Against the War.
Individuals have also made good arguments about the negative outcome that racial profiling might bring to our society. Obviously it has led the dominant race to have superiority to the minorities – racial discrimination. James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute have made a point that he have seen a lot of dark skinned people being searched and treated with humiliation, which is really wrong – Racial Relations. David Harris, a writer and Professor at Toledo College, have already written a couple of books about racial profiling. He states that law enforcers think that they would be more accurate in targeting a suspicious group, but in reality, what happens is the total opposite wherein officials have inaccurate results in targeting the suspect—Race Relations.