Lastly, even though the two men had differences in their civil rights leadership, they were both extraordinarily effective in reaching that goal. “Both King and Malcolm X unwittingly became the voices for blacks in America” (Wells). In the end Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm
There was more de jure change then there was de facto change. President Truman helped change the lives of black people within the US. Truman was president from 1945 to 1953, just after the war so got involved in civil rights because he was moved the the racial attacks that veterans were still receiving. Truman established the “To secure these rights” report in 1947 which highlighted that their equal rights were not equal at all and segregation was a huge problem. Knowing this, Truman tried to do as much as he could to help such as desegregating the armed forces, the acts of fair employment in the civil service and the fair deal programme which included building houses in urban areas.
America, as Harman describes, was seemingly invincible, until its involvement in the Vietnam War. In the 1950s, France had already been at war which divided Vietnam into the North and South. France was backed by the U.S. who funded a majority of the war effort and helped take over South Vietnam. But according to Harman, “The US was trapped in a war of attrition from which there was no easy way out,” (Harman 572). He sees the Vietnam War on the whole as not only a waste of time, men, and resources for the Americans, but also a cause of “huge fissures …in US society” (Harman 572).
Along with fears of the past came the difference of politics as the Soviet Union, also known as the USSR was a communist country and the United States was a capitalist society. These two nations became very dominant over each other and chose to start a nuclear arms race that would make both countries continue to fight in a form of competition. Unlike other countries, America made a decision to remain allies with the Soviet Union. This decision is one that haunted them for the next 46 years. David Halberstam, in “The Fifties” speaks strongly about the drastic changes that our society dealt with as a result of these hard times, and the ways in which the average individual worked with struggles in society.
These causes ultimately led to the Civil War, which was a turning point in American history because of its radical results. 2. I find Garrison’s argument impressive and convincing because of his authoritative tone, as well as the passion oozing from his paper. Also, Douglass’s speech truly made people realize how important it was to abolish slavery, and how wrong it was. In the South,
Shipler in his essay “Jefferson Is America and America Is Jefferson,” Jefferson represents the most powerful contradiction of American society, because his declaration of individual liberty showed the brilliance of his extraordinary mind but also he claims that black people are inferior. Shipler considers that Jefferson had a deep understanding but at the same time he was such an ignorant person about what was happen, at that time concerning liberty and slavery. Slavery was a contradictory subject in Jefferson’s life. Although he was a defender for individual freedom and at one point he was against of slavery in America, but he owned slaves throughout his life. He was a politician that would speak out about slavery but would still employ slaves for his own use.
The United Nations Security Council, along with America set sanctions called United Nations Resolution 661, and became effective in August 6, 1990. The United Nations is considered the world police, and it was allowing Saddam to circumvent the laws that were placed upon the country after the first Gulf War. The sanctions included 16 resolutions in total, and Saddam Hussein repeatedly violated most of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions. The sanctions were designed to ensure that Iraq does not again pose a threat to international peace and security in the region. One of the sanctions imposed immediately was, Saddam Hussein had to withdrawal all Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were two very powerful advocates for civil rights in the south. These two men fought for equal rights for African Americans. Both were two influential leaders who changed this nation tremendously by expressing their beliefs to the masses. Even though they both had similar messages concerning their beliefs, they took different routes in getting what they believed in. Martin Luther king Jr was one of the most influential people in the civil rights movement.
After WW2 tensions between the United State and the Soviet Union tightened resulting in what is known as the Cold War. Although the seeds of this rivalry were planted nearly a quarter of a century before its actual commencement with the Revolution of 1918 in Russia, the tension was also driven through occasions such as the Yalta Conference and resulted in proxy wars throughout the world and a Second Red scare in America. This period was full of tension and fear that the United States and the USSR would destroy each other and the world with their arsenals of atomic weapons. During the Yalta conference the US, Russia, Britain and France agreed on the splitting of central Europe. This Split ultimately divided Europe into two spheres of influence.
Kings mention of the Emancipation Proclamation was to bring the spectators back to 1865 when Lincoln himself, who was not only morally opposed to slavery, however, was a President who defeated the matter of slavery in the south. In King's second paragraph, he states, “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." This was a very big message to not only the Negros but more so to the white people who were holding onto their beliefs of segregation. Another example in the use of allusion within this speech is Thomas Jefferson’s quote “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." King was referring to Jefferson stating that everyone has the right to be free from cruelty and to be treated equally; these ethics are the American