Many Africans were brave and fought against this treatment. It was a response to all of the pandemonium happening. A few of these people were: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm Little (also known as Malcolm X). These brave people helped end the segregation. They made people realize that the way whites treated blacks was wrong, and that there was a need for change.
Analysis of “I Have a Dream” and “Letter to Birmingham Jail” In the “Letter to Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King addresses the criticisms and objections that the white clergymen had made towards his and his affiliated organization’s efforts in trying to end segregation and achieve his and his people’s birth right: the right to be free through nonviolent means. Through the “I Have a Dream Speech” King speaks to his supporters and as well as to the entire nation to make them be fully aware of the injustices they are facing and through this make them stand up to those injustices. Both “Letter to Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream Speech” have the same underlying meaning however. That way too long have the black community been treated wrongly. That way too long have the black nation been “judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character (King 815)” and therefore it is time for them to rise and stand up for their rights.
Larry Gould In times of danger, the media is very useful when it comes to informing people about the dangers of this world. The people should not listen to the mainstream media if they are informing us about a different political movements or organization. For example black lives matter is a movement that is against racism. Black lives matter does not just fight for racism, they fight for power and equality. The people who shouts out black lives matter is a group of people who want more recognition strength and protection of their people.
They were demanded to stay apart from the white Americans. Others would not give employment of jobs to African Americans; they would hire white Americans only. (www.shsu.edu/.../Racism%20and%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Mo) The African Americans’ motives were to gain their freedom, win their rights, and to be rid of racism. These tremendous motives gave them a reason for a civil rights movement. Because of their pains and burdens, they were willing to fight for it.
Dreams are powerful things that are usually the driving force for our words and actions. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Old Major’s speech in chapter one of Animal Farm by George Orwell both relay a message and express a problem they wish to solve. The application of rhetorical appeals, like pathos, ethos, and logos were utilized to influence their audience. Although King believed in peaceful rebellion and Old Major promoted violence as an answer, both used rhetorical appeals to notify their audience about the problems of injustice in their society. The injustice that King described was the discrimination and segregation of colored people.
and his philosophy on non violence, Malcom X on the other hand had a completely different view on how to achieve people their rights by supporting violence. For many young African Americans, the need for greater sovereignty from the white majority was on full swing. They took inspiration from Malcom X who was the minister of the Nation of Islam. He captivated listeners with denunciations of whites and demands for black self respect. (Jacqueline Jones) To his admirers, he was a man who was an audacious advocate for the Civil Rights of African Americans who indicted white American in the harshest of terms (violence) for their crimes against blacks.
This phrase, and indeed, his whole letter, instigated the continuation of King’s and his supporter’s direct action campaigns. King’s defence displayed his belief that non-violent direct action was incredibly important, as any other approach, specifically the attack of Black people within America, was evil, King wrote, ‘‘[non-violent direct action is] a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love’’.3 Without the use of violence, King and many others, comprising mainly of Black children and teenagers went ahead with the protest march on the
Many proposed the end of racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws that limited their social rights like the Black Codes did. State laws that violated the 15th amendment, which promises that the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude, were removed and the federal government response to the Ku Klux Klan’s violence were effective in diminishing he clan’s actions against African Americans. Better job opportunities were present up north, causing many to join the Great Migration to the northern states. The African American community continues to fight against racial segregation and discrimination to live a life of equal rights and
His writing was an appeal to the injustice of slavery in the Southern states, using political and religious means to convey his ideas. The appeal was smuggled into the Southern States so that blacks would receive the appeal in good heart. The church playing the central role would agree with the appeal; believing that divine punishment would result from the actions of the Southern States. Much of the
The efforts to help a specific group united many citizens to achieve a common goal. People, regardless of race, fought together for the just treatment of African Americans. After seeing the devastation of the L.A. Riots, due to the unjust beating of Rodney King; and the revenge beating of the white truck driver Reginald Denny, we have come a long way from the sixties. Reginald Denny said it best when he addressed the nation “Can’t we all just get