Rousseau 1 Rousseau 2 One powerful voice has the ability to transform the challenges in society. On 28 August 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech “I Have a Dream”. This speech is to be deemed the most powerful and influential speech in history. On this day Dr. King stood before thousands of American citizens at the Lincoln Memorial park and spoke about freedom for African Americans. During this era, the civil rights movement was occurring and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. himself influenced Americans to change justice, equality, and freedom for all African Americans by empowering the people through his words.
Why did the visions of Martin Luther King Jr feature in Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign and inauguration speech in 2009? The Role and significance Martin Luther King Jr in America’s History: Martin Luther King Jr was a leader; he gave a voice to the African American citizens who could not express their own needs and opinions. His role was to lead the civil rights movement, and speak for justice, peace and equality in the lives of every American man, woman and child. King struggled with the laws and politics of his time and worked to eradicate segregation and discrimination from the American way of life. Martin Luther King Jr’s writings, teachings and speech’s are timeless; they left people rethinking their attitudes towards African Americans and racism.
Courtney Jones History 273 Research Paper Asa Philip Randolph “Study the past if you would define the future”, famous quote by Confucius is the rationale for my research on A. Philip Randolph. Asa Philip Randolph was a Negro Labor’s Champion; a man on a mission. He was a born leader whose struggle for equality in the U.S labor force was relentless. A. Phillip Randolph is a hero of the American Civil Rights and Labor Movements. He was a man who demanded respect for African-Americans during the Civil Rights movement, and for all working people throughout his career as a Labor organizer.
Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, GA during a period when racism was extremely prominent. One can only imagine the experiences Black Americans endured during those times unless one lived through them personally. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used his strength and knowledge to help society overcome these tumultuous times. Dr. King fought for equal justice for all races and gender to love one another and eliminate violence. He served the community as a clergyman, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement [ (Biography, 2012) ].
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Movement has been a long, non-violent struggle to bring civil right and equality laws to the United States and all citizens. Especially in the South, the fight was to end discrimination towards African Americans and to end segregation from 1945 to 1970. The same goals, tactics, and focus the civil rights movement had on ending the discrimination of ethnic groups was also applied to other struggles such as women’s liberation, gay liberation, and also disabled rights movement. Because of the Civil Rights Movement’s goals and tactics it left a lasting impact on the United States.
By 1920, African- Americans were slowly gaining rights that gained them equality in the United States for the first time in history. With many proud blacks reminiscing on the powerful events of the civil rights movement, it became inevitable that African- Americans would celebrate their freedom. In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a civil rights leader and journalist, officially created a week of celebrating black history called “Negro History Week”. The celebration quickly spread throughout the country and soon evolved into a whole month of celebrating and honoring the heroes of black history. Woodson’s road to creating this special month of celebration was not an easy one.
Martin Luther King Jr. helped shape the society we live today and continues to have an influence on civil rights reforms today. Many philanthropic groups have formed to carry out the visions inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. such as The King Center, NAACP and the National Civil Rights Museum. I believe that Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement represented a positive social change on American society today. Without them, society today would not be what it is today; People would not be able to walk proud and live in peace and equality and be happy with who they were regardless of race. While I still feel that society has a long way to go in regards to discrimination of race I feel that we have also come a long way.
Class is a group of people who share a roughly similar economic position and lifestyle (Croteau and Hoynes 2013, p. 123), Culturally, I am an American. I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, more specifically Webster Groves, an upper middle class suburb of St. Louis County. My parents were together growing up, I had 2 sisters, a brother, and a dog, we epitomized the stereotypical suburban family. Being that my family had few struggles financially, growing up I went to a highly ranked high school that had many extra activities to choose from. I took advantage of swimming and soccer for a short period of time.
Being a mother at the age of fifteen was not an easy task but Daphne had no other choice. With a sometimes delightful, well paying, unrewarding job that got bills paid and food on the table. Daphne found out that a common disease amongst her family resided under her flesh. Breast cancer found her at an early age but it has not gotten the best of her. Throughout 38 years of living, being a single mother, working the same career for 17 years, and fighting breast cancer still has not strangled the liveliness from Daphne’s spirits.
Tu Hoang History 7B 06/08/11 Jane Addams: Biography In the American history, the impacts that made by an individual could create a big influence to society is something that wasn’t new to us which is Martin Luther King fought for African-American community to have the same rights as other communities or the President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery’s era that brought America to a whole new level of civil rights. There were also many many great an individual out there helped contribute to society and one of them that impressed me the most is Miss Jane Addams. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. Jane’s mother, Sarah Addams, gave birth to nine children but three of her child died in early childhood and another died in the age of two. Jane was the youngest sisters compared to her siblings at that time.