Essays on Civil Rights

The new 2018 Global Digital suite of reports from We Are Social and Hootsuite reveals that more than 4 billion people are using the internet. The growth in internet use is a great advancement for humankind but there is a darker side to it. There…

The Nineteenth Amendment is one of the most important amendments in the Constitution. A well-earned right after a century-long battle. This amendment reads: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by…

In a world without mistake, the entirety of the residents would have total rights (no rights left out), anyway, we are not ideally pretty much every revision in the Bill of rights all have limits. The Government and State laws and the United States of…

In Florida of July 2013, a man by the name of George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin; which began the activist movement, Black Lives Matter, later beginning the hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter). Following Martin’s death, Black Lives Matter…

From the beginning Cesar’s Chavez ideology of always standing up for people set him apart and made him a leader rather than a follower. More importantly, however, his character affected people. He was not only a person to be followed but also a beacon of…

Cesar Chavez, a prominent civil rights activist, drew upon the nonviolent tactics of the civil rights movement to strengthen his fight regarding justice for farm workers. On the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Chavez published an article in a religious magazine, urging for…

Political participation are actions carried out by citizens within formal institutions and the legal mechanisms of the political system. Citizen participation is exercised when the citizen carries out public actions that have as their destination the interaction with the State in the sense of influencing…

Firstly, I would like to consider how important civil rights were and still is for black people. In times like this day and age, we all surely forget how our black ancestors path the way for our generation today. Visiting the civil rights museum was…

Numerous individuals do not appear to understand the value of the Civil Rights Act and the foundation on how the bill affect their lives. My plan is to provide the importance in how the establishment began. This led to the movement behind the civil rights…

Every other day we find residents protesting that their rights were infringed upon. They make newspaper headlines the next day. Rightfully so. There are concerns about rights abuse across the various war zones in the Middle East and Africa. While most of these incidents are…