Rosa Parks is one of the most important black Americans in the history of the United States. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man nearly 45 years ago, she didn\'t have any idea of the impact that it would have on the future of the black race. Mrs. Parks altered the course of history. ...

Dorothy Chaplik \"Up with Hope: A biography of Jesse Jackson\" Dillon Press, 1986 Summary This book is about a virtuous leader, Jesse Jackson. It explains how he grew up in a hard time for blacks and how he was committed to being somebody. When Jesse was a little boy his grandmother urged him s...

The Liberal Martin Luther King Jr. Ideology: "Any comprehensive and mutually consistent set of ideas by which s social group makes sense of the world. An ideology needs to provide some explanation of how things have come to be as they are, some indication of where they are heading (to pro...

The Military-Nintendo Complex is a collaboration of authors John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Phillips. The Military-Nintendo Complex and Black Women and Motherhood by Patricia Hill Collins express comparable and incomparable points. Although these two pieces of writing have some resemblance, ...

A man once had a dream; a dream that all people could exist together in peace and harmony. This man was Martin Luther King Jr. King was a dedicated civil rights leader of the 1950's and '60's. He had many great achievements in his lifetime that influenced the lives of so many people....

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He did very well at the segregated public schools he attended. At age 15 King Jr. entered Morehouse College. In 1948 he graduated with a bachelor\'s degree in sociology. King Jr. then went on to the Crozer Theological Seminary; there he gradua...

Martin Luther King is the number one person we hear about during Black History Month. He was a very important man who had good intentions, but his dreams never came true. All his hopes and dreams were shattered to the ground the day he was killed. All because of racism, a guy that just wanted to hel...