What would you do if the Constitution said you were just as good as everyone else but some people still acted as if you were something they had just scraped off their shoe? This sort of thing happens to millions of people on a regular basis. Americans of African, Asian, or Mexican descent are all ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech is famous because he was a leader of something as important in society as the civil rights movements. He uses metaphor's, and similies, personification to help him attract his group. He makes sure that everyone is a...

Having Our Say tells the story of the Delany Sisters, who, with intelligence and good humor, have stood witness to 100 years of American life. Sadie and Bessie Delany remember the 1890's to the 1990's with wit and insight born of a hundred years of living as African American women. Bess...

In almost every aspect of life there are what we call "heroes." Sometimes these figures can be imaginary or larger than life like superman, or they can be real people like Ghandi or Martin Luther King Jr. Now what makes them heroes is that they either did something extraordinary, they took...

The Bloody Civil Rights It all began in 1875 when the beginning of Civil Rights in American Society began to take place. With the end of the Cold war, came the question of inequality. Who had the right to run the country? Who made the rules? Who enforced equality and the right of all peopl...

The life story of the civil rights patriot Martin Luther King Jr. started with his birth in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr. was a Baptist minister and preached for civil rights. When young Martin grew up, he knew he wanted to follow in his father footsteps and become a m...

The subject of pacifism has been a long argued controversy. There is no simple answer to the many moral and ethical questions this issue raises. We find writings on pacifism in many of the worlds prominent religions. Although pacifistic views can seem to contradict themselves, the basic pacifi...