By showing the world courage, heroes impact our society and teach us how to be better people.
Georgia Gilmore and Elie Wiesel demonstrated courage during the hard times of segregation and the Holocaust. Georgia Gilmore courageously fought for the civil rights movement despite all that was against her. Her actions inspired many people to do the same. Georgia Gilmore was an African American woman that lived in Montgomery, Alabama, and participated in the Montgomery bus boycott by fundraising for the organization, Club from Nowhere. Georgia organized black women to cook together without raising suspicion of white people. Georgia poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for bus boycotters. The testimony made Gilmore a hero to local blacks, Edge
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It takes a lot of bravery to stand up to the government. Only a courageous and fearless person could risk their job for what they believed in, and Georgia Gilmore did just that. Elie Weisel is a hero for devoting the majority of his life to making the world a better place for everyone by being the voice people need. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who shared his experience with the whole world. In the United States Holocaust Museum, Wiesele's biography states, “Wiesel describes his experiences and emotions at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust: the roundup of his family and neighbors in the Romanian town of Sighet; deportation by cattle car to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau; the division of his family forever during the selection process; the mental and physical anguish he and his fellow prisoners experienced as they were stripped of their humanity; and the death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the concentration camp at Buchenwald” During the Holocaust, Wiesel experienced some of the most brutal things anybody has ever had to experience. The nazis tortured him both mentally and physically and sent him to march to Buchenwald. The nazis