Essays on Civil Rights

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…

In his speech at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin said, “Sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and…

Many people use civil liberties and civil rights interchangeably, but often do not know the difference. There are several reasons as to why this is, mostly because they both have to do with equality. Although both ideas are similar, they are not the same subject…

Introduction “We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war,” Jimmy Carter during his presidency explains his goal of humility. He always fought for what is right, whether it would be in war zones,…