Amy Goodman's Influence On Democracy

“I am, was, and always be a catalyst for change” (Chisholm, 1970). Shirley Chisholm was a Visionary Leader and Ethical Leader by challenging the country to live up to ideals of equality and opportunity, while navigating the rough political landscape, contending with racial and gender discrimination. In this essay, I will review how Shirley Chisholm used her visionary leadership traits by becoming the first African American congresswoman to create diversity and how she used Idealized Influence to garner votes to run for U.S. presidency. Additionally, I will review how Chisholm displayed Ethical Leadership by challenging the seniority system in Congress and how she used her moral values to stand up for what she believed in. Finally, I will review how Shirley Chisholm’s visionary and ethical leadership behavior is personally relevant to me. First, let’s review how Chisholm used her visionary leadership traits.

In her speech “Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s through the Age of Obama,” Angela Davis argues that Black history involves a constant struggle for freedom. This struggle is meant to expand the liberties of not only Black people, but of all marginalized people, and it has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. As a result, Davis asserts that Black history and activism are universally relatable. She continues to discuss activism in her speech, at one point declaring, “we have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes” (Davis 117). Her declaration means that social change does not come about if people passively accept the world’s current state. Instead, social change occurs when people “imagine the future” (117) that they wish to live in and work at shaping all aspects of society so that it will progress towards the future they envisioned.

Rosa Parks taught us that to be an agent of change, a small action can do or start a big difference. You don't have to be loud or seek attention, you can be quiet and stick to your principals. She taught us that you sometimes need to be fearless and take risks to achieve change. She helped making the world a better, more respectful

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery and was 1 of 12 children. She was born in Ulster County, New York. Her father was James Baumfree and mother was Elizabeth Baumfree. She was loving, honest, and generous. She once said that “Truth is power and it prevails.” SHe was an author and a women’s rights activist. She escaped from slavery in 1826 and she was the first black woman to win a court case against a white man. She delivered a speech at the Ohio women's rights convention in Akron.

The women used many different tactics to earn the right to vote. The at the time did whatever tactics they new to help the situation. One of the tactics they used was to go on a hunger strike. For example the girls wouldn't eat during there lunch time, but most of the girls couldn't handle it. Alice Paul continued to proceed with the strike.but that didn't work very well because they force fed her. Another strategy was called propaganza. These girls (mostly alice paul) found a way to publish her life in prison in the newspaper. They did this by when some came to visit them they would slip the note into their pockets and then the people would find it. the last trick they use was to get people to not vote for woodrow wilson. One way

The article by Karen Bird examines representation in representative democracy in the perspectives of minorities in the urban and diverse greater Toronto area. Bird used focus group interviews to study the views of three visible minorities about representation which are communities of black, South Asian, and Chinese Canadians. Also, Bird examined how visible minority communities think about political actors as well as visible minority communities’ evaluation of the claims by political actors to represent them and the concerns citizens raise against the political actors. In order to reach a conclusion, Bird conducts nine focus group interviews with ethno-racial minority living in the greater Toronto area in the following division: three black

Angela Davis, born in 1944 on January 26, Birmingham, Alabama. Angela a radical activist, whose part of the U.S Communist Party. Fighting for what she believed in, Angela Davis fought against the political repression of the state and thousands of its citizens. Women have been fighting just as much as men. Women have be fighting for equal rights every since the constitution has taken place. Even though the constitution is suppose to grant all American equal rights, to any man or women for freedom and equality. It’s very clear from the bringing that the world is segregated. “ At the age of four I was aware that the people across the street were different- without yet being able to trace their alien nature to the color of their skin” (P.78)

Alice Paul once said, “There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” These words are from one of her most well known quotes. She was the last push for women to win their right to vote. Women’s rights would not have been won without Alice Paul. Although Alice Paul is not as well known today as Susan B. Anthony or Lucretia Mott, she had a big part in the women’s rights movement. Alice Paul took the suffrage movement to the extreme by picketing the White House just get the attention of the then President Woodrow Wilson. Women had been fighting for their rights since the early 1800s, including some women whose names are more well known than others.

The stories Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote and Don’t Give Up The Fight are similar but they also have their differences. The stories have the similar themes of perseverance because they both push themselves to get to their goals. Susan B. Anthony in the story Susan B. Anthony Dares To Vote kept persevering to earn equal rights for all women in the country even though she could possibly get put in prison. Ava Clark from Don’t Give Up The Fight persevered to prove that it doesn’t matter if she is a boy or girl, she can still reach the same goals as everyone else. While these stories have the same themes, Susan B Anthony is trying to change the lives of women across the country while Ava Clark is trying to change things for herself.

The common theme of courage can be found in “I Escaped a Violent Gang,” and “Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote!” Susan has the courage to stand up for woman rights and Ana in “I Escaped a Violent Gang” stood up for the truth which took courage to do. But both texts share different moods. The mood in “I Escaped a Violent Gang” was more violent and abusive compared to “Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote” which is a more uplifting mood filled with determination.

Coming from an immigrant family who suffered social prejudice, Dolores Huerta was inspired to better the lives of others. Although she faced many consequences, Huerta later became an influential labor activist and leader of civil rights movements. Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader. Huerta was born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico, Huerta is the second of three children of Alicia and Juan Fernandez. She attended San Joaquin Delta College and University of the Pacific where she received an associate teaching degree.

I would like to meet Alice Paul to ask her why she believed women had a right to vote in America. Many people today view feminism as unnecessary because the types of things they fight for is taboo. However, challenging what is deemed socially acceptable is the only way to create changes. At her time, people similarly viewed women as having enough rights because women were just supposed to be housewives yet Alice Paul did not agree with this. She and many great others lived as catalysts for change. These people have a different type of passion living inside their hearts telling their minds that what is normal does not necessarily mean it is correct. I would want to ask her why the way women were treated at the time was not enough; why she believed

The American Civil War was fought for freedom. However, even after the war, the concept of freedom was not universally understood. Freedom remained limited for certain individuals depending on their race, gender, and different class systems. The war especially had a great impact on the country’s social and political aspects of the entire population, particularly women. Essentially, it gave women the momentum to fight for their rights. Years before the civil war, women and men had separate spheres. Men belonged in the public sphere, who went out and worked in shops, factories, or offices, while women were affiliated with the domestic sphere, emphasizing the up-keeping of their homes and families. Women were stripped of the many opportunities to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Throughout the 19th century, women initially advocated against slavery then began to escape the domestic sphere and fight for their rights as citizens. In both primary and secondary sources, the notion of women progressing for democracy is greatly demonstrated. During and after the American Civil War, women of the nation defend their equality by proclaiming citizenship as they fought for universal suffrage, advancement in public jobs, and justice in courts.

We live in this country for the land, and the for the free as Americans we rely on many attributes in this world in order for us to live our lives. Our government has supplied us with many great things for us to be proud of. Our government is “the institutions and processes though which public policies are made for society.” (Edwards, Wattenberg, and Lineberry, p. 7). With all these institutions which includes the President, Congress, the courts and all the federal administrative agencies. These are the institutions that make up public policies for us, and to shape the way we live as Americans. The way this system has been operating through all the years has been

Alice Walker, born February ninth of 1944, was a child of tenant farmers in Eatonton, Georgia. As she lost sight in one eye from being shot with a BB gun, she read and wrote surrounding herself with her mother and aunts. As she witnessed the independence of these women, along with the oppression of the sharecropping system and violent racist acts, her artistic view was shaped. In 1961, she got involved with the Civil Right Movement at Spelman College, and became active after moving to Mississippi. Together with her husband, Civil Rights Lawyer Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, married in March of 1967, she worked registering blacks to vote in Mississippi. They divorced after her daughter, Rebecca, was born.