Essays on Civil Rights Movement

In the 1960’s, the Civil Rights and laws were changing. The new laws were to bring equality to all races and gender. Most whites were upset with the new laws, and this created a violence problems in the South. In Mississippi, it was known to...

“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root’. ” – Angela Davis Assata Shakur and Angela Davis are two women that were very monumental in the Civil Rights Movement. These women fought and worked beside the men of the Black Panthers and other organizations to...

Martin Luther King Jr. born January 15th 1929, he was a Baptist minister that led the civil rights movement from 1954 until his untimely death in 1968. A few of his most notable actions were the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, In 1957 he became...

Environmental justice can be described as the unfairness of distributing the toxic wastes from the facilities to our environment between communities of color and white. They are exposing the chemical hazard and toxic wastes within the area called “sacrificed zones”. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is...

The Problem that Has No Name was written by Betty Friedan, a mother, a writer, a proponent of women’s rights to their own bodies, and the freedom to choose a place in the world other than just the home. Betty lived in Rockland, NY and...

Fundamentalism (biblical belief in taking the Bible literally) had been on the rise in the United States for the past 30 years, and gained momentum in the 1970’s with a few very influential leaders of churches. They had not been very politically involved up to...

The progressive movement represented a unified effort of groups that benefited society in order to correct abuses and government. Some of the more popular movements consisted of voting rights for women, civil rights for African Americans, temperance, and child labor. Each of these movements ended...