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No man in history demonstrated the struggle, anger, and strong African- American beliefs like Malcolm X. Malcolm Little (1925-1965) changed his name into Malcolm X is a Muslim pastor and human rights activists in the United States. To his worshipers, he is a brave black rights advocate, a man who sues white American with most…

Immediately after the civil war, freed slaves struggle to blend into society, this was known as reconstructions. In the 1950s and the 1960s the supreme court applies the Equal protection Clause in order to fight discrimination. The equal protection clause “refers to the idea that a governmental body may not deny people equal protection of…

“…if we don’t cast a ballot, it’s going to end up in a situation where we’re going to have to cast a bullet. It’s either a ballot or a bullet” said Malcolm X on April 3, 1964, in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Amid the 1950s and the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement…

Malcolm X was one of the black african americans to use physical violence as the way to achieve the rights to all african americans at the time. He was very different from MLK because MLK induce non-violence while Malcolm did, but they had the same goal, which was to have the brother and sisters to…

‘The crucible’, a play written by Arthur Miller is based upon the events surrounding the 1692 witch trials in Salem. The Salem, the witch-hunt was viewed as one of the strangest and most horrendous chapters in human history. People that were prosecuted were all innocent and their deaths were all due to false accusations of…

Even though slavery was abolished once the civil war, black Americans still were being discriminated against. The Civil Rights Act, beyond any doubt, became a vital step in the moral direction for America. However, the movement didn’t prevent racism fully. Some people think the movement is irrelevant and just a part of history. Vulnerable minorities…

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most well-known and accomplished sociativists in history. He was the leader of a passionate campaign to promote equal rights for all Americans(martin Luther King Jr. pg.1). In his fight for equal rights king believed in passive resistance he fought guns and bombs with words and ideas. King…

Fear can influence your decisions and it can corrupt one’s morality. Fear of losing yourself and the impact it has on a good person can force them to make a bad decision that influences their judgment and their isolation. John Proctor endured a sense of goodness and several obstacles of fear controlling how far he…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the United States with the New Deal Program. “Not only did he change the US but he changed the federal government’s relationship to United States citizens.” (HISTORY.com) I believe the New Deal is still important to discuss. The New Deal took immediate economic relief. The United States was in a tremendous…

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a “coming of age” narrative following the life of Jean Scout Finch. Written from a child’s point of view at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, it expressed views of racism and many other injustices. Lee’s use of actual events led to the foundation for this…