What Was Vernon 's Life?

Growing up colored in the late 19 hundreds was rough, with countless restrictions and criterium on young Jackson. He grew up in a small town and never was really exposed to much racism ,but as he grew older it became more of an issue. In collage Jackson says in an interview with New York Times "There was a lot of hidden discrimination based on the color of my skin and I just knew I had the strength to stand up and so I went on to achieve this dream" (2) Being that he did experience these traumatizing events he set out to change Americas racist issue. The problem was getting bigger and this is about when  activist such as Mather Luther King Jr started speaking out against the issue. During the late 1930s African Americans

It also gave them the right to vote. Later on, Martin Luther King found out that not all blacks wanted to fight for equal rights the way he did. Some groups became aggressive and used violence. This is where the slogan “Black Power” became famous. King also fought against poverty. He said there were too many rich people in America and that the poor people should be given more money.

The News spread to the black community faster than a forest fire. Enraged African American’s who wanted to stand up for change, and participate in marches were treated horribly. Many discriminating events occurred before many African Americans decided to stand up for themselves, but Dr. King was the spokesperson for many unspoken blacks. Many were too afraid to speak up, which is why the African American community praised Dr. King.

When he was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama he then fell under criticism by white clergy for coming to Birmingham as an “outsider” to cause trouble and increase tension through public sit-ins and marches. I feel that Martin Luther King was able to both set aside that criticism by establishing his credibility to have not only been invited to come to Birmingham to help end the injustice to the Negro people via peaceful means, but he was able to identify moral, legal and ethical cause to promote his quest to put a stop to what he identified as “the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States” (King, 2017, p, 3). I will provide a summary that will show what Martin Luther King believed were the cause of the injustice that he was striving to end to as well as his concern over the white community’s ability to make the Negro “wait for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.”

Frederick Douglass Accomplishments: Frederick Douglass was a very accomplished person. He was known to fight against slavery in the South. He escaped when he was 16, and ever since then he decided to speak out against slavery. Many African Americans, then and now think of him as a hero, but what did he do to become a hero? Why was it important then, and what are its effects now?

Religion has many faces in the novel as one would expect, but one face that rings true is the notion that through religion one can gain dignity. As you can imagine, living in the South in times such as these was certainly a detriment to African-Americans such as the characters in the novel, but why is it then that African Americans put, more often than not, so much clout to the community and its church? For simple reasons of course, because inside the church is where one can gain back the dignity that is lost nearly everyday through racism. Church is the only place where anyone can be a leader. Church is the place to express yourself freely and come together to share a ceremony where racism is not present. Most importantly church is the place to recognize and evaluate the lives of so many people that are continually being marginalized. This can be seen as another strong factor on how religion is central to the community. For example, people that become leaders inside the church are looked at with more respect, such as Miss Emma, Tante Lou, and Reverend Ambrose; three very active

presenting himself in front of America with a stand for black equality he showed the courage

There were different bathrooms, train cars, restaurant sections, even churches designated for the black community which were either crammed, left unmaintained, or far inferior to what the white people enjoyed. The Church upheld its complacency giving into moral injustices and letting God’s command of loving one’s neighbor as one’s self, fall on deaf ears. They instead reflected the ideas of their society disconnecting from what was morally right and turning to what had become socially acceptable. King reveals this in his observation of the Church’s actions, “I have watched so many churches….which made a strange distinction between body and soul, the sacred and the secular” (King 436). On one hand the moral teaching of the Bible instructed followers to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, while social reality was active segregation between those of different color, which was a clear inconsistency from one of the major principles of the Bible’s

“One man, one vote is the African cry. It must be ours.” John Lewis calls out to the crowded gatherers as they hang on to every word he says (Lewis and Aydin 2:167). When thinking of the Civil Rights Movement most think of one key iconic figure, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and few consider that there were other key individuals who made the movement possible. One individual comes to mind, John Lewis.

There were people being murdered, homes and churches being bombed, but not once did he attack back with violence which was a major success in the Civil Rights Movement. He was able to make a genuine headway in American society which allowed for him to contribute a great deal to

He gave motivational speeches speaking of racism, slaves, and injustice. “The issue is injustice”. He spoke of the thousands of sanitations workers who went on strike in Memphis for being treated unfairly. Dr. King brought thousands and thousands of people together to protest. No matter how bad they suffered during the protests they never stop fighting.

He was an avid advocate for the rights of African Americans.He was very dedicated to making sure that African American had a right to vote, could use public facilities, and could attend public schools. During a speech in 1961, he committed to civil rights for all citizens of the United States. "We will not stand by or be aloof. We will move. I happen to believe that the 1954 [Supreme Court school desegregation] decision was right. But my belief does not matter. It is the law. Some of you may believe the decision was wrong. That does not matter. It is the law." In 1962 he sent US Marshals to make sure that African American students could go to the University of Mississippi (Alden Whitman, 2001).

A man known as Martin Luther King jr. helped the blacks in so many ways. He told them too never back down from them and no advocating violence. It was a big success because the blacks were the reason the buses got any business. They was three fourths of the people that rode the bus everyday too there jobs and that’s a lot

He saw how his father become invisible to the injustice of black around him and he decided to get involved. He had a generativity concern on improving black people rights in the world around him (Newman & Newman, 2015). As a young boy, he would watch TV, read articles, and read books regarding what people are doing to change the way blacks are treated. His father would be disappointed and hope he would just stay away for the violence, abuse, and other activist groups. After high school, he went on to Fisk University to be involve in the Freeman Riders and later the Black Panthers. Along the journey, he was kicked, spit on, arrested, and even witness brutal killings and prayed that he would not be killed for his rights.

courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history.