Essays on Civil Rights Movement

Amidst political and social unrest, the Hippie movement was a subculture prevalent in America between the late 1960s and early 1970s. An evolution from the iconic Beat movement throughout the 1940s and 1950s, they were a counter-culture that were combating against mainstream American institutionalized values....

Imagine fifteen years of fighting for equality and freedom, just to have all of it mean nothing. That is the day and age we live in today. To continuous harassing and hate in all forms of publicity, for example; in sports, music industry, politics, civilian...

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, examines the way white elites have impeded and blocked the forward progress for African Americans, for selfish hateful reasons. This is what Anderson calls “white rage.” The book is broken up into five chapters which lay...

When Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke people listened. Poor, rich, white, black, no matter the race, these individuals were seeking his words of peace. Due to King’s influential speeches, people offered to sing, march, and pray for justice with him. Being the face of the...

Throughout history, black lives picked and picked away at more freedom. The movement started microscopic and with small actions, and eventually turned into what it is today- an organization that refuses to be ignored. This ever-changing movement has all different types of retaliations such sit-ins...

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...

Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social...

Black Lives Matter, also known as BLM, is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. There have been a lot of protests, riots, and fights due to police officers not being convicted...

Malcolm Little was born in Ohama, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. He was the son of Louise Little and Earl Little who was a Baptist minister and supporter of Marcus Garvey, a Black Nationalist. From a young age, Malcolm Little was surrounded by civil rights...

Civil Disobedience is the dynamic refusal to comply with specific laws, requests and directions of a legislature, or of an involving power, without falling back on physical brutality. It is one of the essential strategies of peaceful obstruction (qtd. In Reference book Britannica). Civil Disobedience...