Martin Luther King Jr. And Racial Injustice

Martin Luther King Jr. His most famous act was the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. He did this because Rosa Parks was kicked off a bus after she had a long day of work. The reason she was kicked off was because she refused to move from her seat for a white man. Because of that, Martin Luther King Jr led a boycott.

Dhrumi Patel Period:4 Mrs.Blanke Mrs.Hnasko English Lit IV A Research Paper Langston Hughes Influence on the Harlem Renaissance “Democracy” by Langston Hughes was written during the Harlem Renaissance and left a great impact on it. It helped people stay true to their traditions and made people want to fight for their equality. His real name was James Mercer Langston Hughes and was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents got a divorce when he was a young child.

Summary: This article is about a man named Jaime Prater who was born and raised in Jesus People USA (JPUSA), a religious community where the leadership clothes you, feeds you, educates you, and basically raises you. JPUSA were started by hippies who used to travel through the USA, but soon settled down in Chicago, and is now run by an authoritarian leader and councilship members. Jaime Prater was born into this community and thought of it as his family, but when he was 8 years old he was molested. He took it to the council, but they shut it down to stop spreading rumors and isolated him. In isolation, he felt lonely and scared for three and a half years, and left the comminity in his early 20’s after he realized that he didn’t belong.

Also, when he was still a young boy, he was deeply moved when he witnessed the brutal murder of a slave in his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, by a white man throwing rocks, for the crime of "merely doing something awkward." (Smith) In Mark Twain’s personal life, he may have in his early life, held racist ideas due to his upbringing in the south, “In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery... the local pulpit taught us that God approved it.” (Popova)

In an age of racial strife and confusion, it is pivotal to have a clear understanding of race and how it relates to Christians. And no one does this better than John Piper’s book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian. Piper grew up in Greenville, South Carolina where the issues of race have deeply affected him to this day. He grew up a racist, the people around him were racist, for the most part, but his mother was the sole reason that he decided to change his attitude towards racism.

James Hurst, the author of the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” uses the scarlet ibis to symbolize Doodle. Both the bird and Doodle both stand out in their own ways. Doodle was born with a bad heart, and his parents were told, when he was first born, that most likely he wouldn’t live and if he were to live, he would never be able to walk. Doodle’s brother is ashamed of having a crippled brother, that he can’t play with, and tries to help Doodle learn how to walk for his own pride and ego. After many months of constant success, Doodle’s brother tries to push Doodle a little more than Doodle can endure by leaving him, after he has fallen, on the way home during a strorm.

Tom Lee was born February 18, 1885; just 20 years after the 13 amendment, which prohibited slavery nationwide. Although slavery was abolished, the south was long from a place of equality, for a Negro male or female. In the 1920’s the south was a place, thick with “the Jim Crow law of; segregation, prejudice, hatred, and inequality toward blacks, conflicts was prominent everywhere.

Laurel tells a story of when she and her father saw Mennonites in a mall. Mennonites are people who must do any favor that is asked of them. Laurel explains that her father asked them to paint his porch because “it was the only time he’d have a white man on his knees doing something for a black man for free”(30). When Laurel tells this story to the other girls she begins to understand why her father said it for the first time. She begins to understand that there are a resentment and hatred felt, “something mean in the world that I could not stop”(31).

Through his work, James Baldwin created a lens for readers to view his life as a black homosexual in America as well as in France. Baldwin’s work is reminiscent of his upbringing in a home with his stepfather who was a store-front pastor living in America during a time of social segregation and discord as well as the persecution of homosexuals. His extensive catalog of work was greatly influenced by his life as a black gay man in America. At Harlem Hospital, Baldwin was born to his mother, Emma Berdis Jones on August 2, 1924. He had never known his biological father because his mother had left him when James was very young due to his drug abuse.

A Letter to My Son Coates' letter has strong feelings towards the injustices that blacks have encountered for generations. Coates uses deep words and historical events to explain to his son what his life will be when he grow up. The fact that he decides to write this letter to his son impacts my experiences as a reader because his son is just a kid. His son does not have any knowledge of what is going around him in regards of racism because he is just a little kid. He might not understood or took it personal when a white woman pushed him and said, "Come on!"

Lee was born in Edwards, Mississippi in 1904. His mother died while he was a child, and this put a damper his childhood. Despite this, he persevered and graduated from high school. In the 1930’s he became a preacher in the town of Belzoni, a town where many African Americans lived, most in extreme poverty. Later he opened a grocery store and also ran a printing press with his wife out of his house.

For so long I lecture, for so long I preach, for so long I dream that the magnificence of equality is not a far away from our children and they’re children. That unity, unity, hope, and justice will be common among us. I am Ashley Rivera and I was a part of the million-man march.

A couple of years later one of the federal marshals Charles Burks said that Ruby ha showed a lot of pride, she never cried or whimpered , she just marched along like a little soldier. The abuse had got worst it stated to impact her family her dad had lost his job, and he grandparents were sent to another land. Even the grocery store banned them from going in. But besides that there was other people in the community both blacks and whites started to support each other. Many parent had start to send their children back to school, and one of Ruby’s neighborhoods had offered her father a job.

Malcolm X, known for his “activist and out spoken public voice” was an African American leader that dedicated his life to the Nation of Islam who followed Alijah Muhammad and his teachings. Growing up with 6 siblings “Malcolm was the son of a Baptist preacher Earl Little who was a follower of Marcus Garvey”. The Racism and hatred Malcolm 's parents went through was terrifying . Malcolm recalls having to move repetitious times due to white mobs "Brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out.” as well the time in 1929 after their second move when “a racist mob set their house on fire, and the town 's all-white emergency responders refused to do anything.”.

His congregation was interracial which broke the social norm in the Mid-West. It was new and they favored interracial institutions, as the Civil Rights era was occurring at the time of his first church. Also moving to another country to start a new society just because your religious leader told you to do so; is breaking the social norm. Leaving your family to follow a man to another state because of your religion is breaking the social norm. Jim Jones threw a bible at the floor and asked his congregation whether if they saw him get struck by lightning.