a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture. As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study
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on two of the most prominent leaders during the civil rights era. These two leaders are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. The paper will discuss how these extraordinary men made their phenomenal contributions to America by offering to bring about their own political, racial, and social views that were affecting the people of color. Their ability to voice their strong opinions about the injustices that were taking place among African Americans and the oppositions that were before them gave them
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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, was born in 1913, and died in 2005. An African American civil rights activist whom is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Her action helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was arrested for violating a city law that required the whites and blacks to sit in separate rows on buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the bus when a white man desired to sit in her row. The front
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birth: Marguerite Johnson Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was nominated for a National Book Award and made her a symbol of pluck and pride for African-American women. In the 1950s Angelou had been a dancer and stage actress, and she was active in the civil rights movement (she became a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, thanks to a request from Martin Luther King, Jr.). During the 1960s she spent five years in Africa, working as a journalist
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ambassadors because the state department thought they would preach the gospel of American Freedom to suck Third World allies as Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Ghana. The White Citizens Council of Alabama opposed this policy because they were racists and thought of Jazz as part of the “negro” community. Martin Luther King Jr, “Knock at Midnight” (1967) 2. During the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56), 70,000 African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted city busses for a year to protest segregation
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were great civil rights icons. They both worked diligently for the equality of blacks, but on different platforms. When people think of Dr. King, they think of nonviolence, preaching love thy neighbor, and the integration of blacks and whites. On the other hand, Malcolm X brings thoughts of militant force, the infamous phrase, “by any means necessary” (Carson, 2005), violence, and segregation. While Martin and Malcolm’s common goal was fighting for the justice and equality of civil rights for blacks
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History is the accumulation of daily actions. People write history each day positively and negatively. Martin Luther King Jr, a preacher and civil rights activist, exercised peaceful boycott and protest. Using his best tools, leadership and public speaking, King fought gallantly against the segregation faced by African Americans. Another average Joe is Gandhi, a spiritual leader from India, who established and spread the idea of satyagraha or non-violence and ahimsa or the pursuit and proclamation
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and more important and to use your knowledge to achieve life goals. This is what the children attending the grammar school believed as well, including Maya Angelou. Given from her point of view, the story Graduation has ethos because as an African American girl, she shared the same thoughts and feelings as everyone standing on the stage or in the auditorium when Mr. Edward Donleavy passively demeaned everything the students had worked so hard to achieve. This story is told by a women who had
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there seemed to be a chill in the air. Usually, right before I close shop my dad will stop by and walk me home. For some reason I did not know yet, he did not show up. I took some money from the cashier and headed to Cleveland Avenue to catch a bus home. I did not particularly enjoy riding the bus due to the segregation laws. The public carrier segregation law had just been passed recently this year, and I was deeply upset for my African-American friends. Although my own father did not agree with
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Maya Angelou was an inspiration to all the oppressed, the downtrodden, the bullied, and the weak. She imparted a beacon of hope for people of all races and ethnicities. Angelou’s life has informed us about the human condition she faced and showing how she overcame it to pass on to the generations to come. Her life has taught the world important messages regarding love, death, suffering, and aspirations. Angelou wasn’t always brave and defiant. Her words were once tongue-tied, grasping for a way
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