Andrew Young Jr. was a prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in March 12, 1932 in the city of New Orleans. He became very versatile in many occupations but he exuded the highest level outside of the Civil Rights. Andrew Young grew up with a mindset of being successful that exceeds his living in New Orleans, La.
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives,” said Jackie Robinson. Jackie lived to change the lives of people around the world. Jackie changed segregation starting with baseball but then other sports. Jackie Robinson is the most impactful Civil Rights activist. Jackie Robinson was important to history and the civil rights movement because he broke the MLB color barrier and was a civil rights activist.
Jackie Robinson is perhaps one of the most influential person in African-American history. He absolutely changed the face and belief that only white people should participate in the Major Leagues by being the first African-American man to play alongside everyone else in professional baseball.. Not only did this change baseball, but the future for people of color. His exemplary courage he had shown to the world inspired many people such as Martin Luther King Jr. to strive for equal rights and opportunity for black people. Jackie paved the way to equal rights for African-Americans throughout his career by breaking the color barrier.
Randolph, who was born in Florida in 1889, was exposed as a child and a young adult to the prejudice and injustice that African Americans endured in the Jim Crow South.
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley formed the reggae band the Wailing Wailers with a few of his friend. The Wailers' band signed with Island records in 1972.This was the beginning his fruitful and rousing music career. Throughout Marley’s career he sold more than 20 million records.
James Baldwin was a writer and civil rights activist. He was born August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York. What once was a community of artists and musicians now a neighborhood of African American Culture and a neighborhood deeply affected by poverty and violence. Baldwin would go on to graduate high school in 1942, however he would put college on hold to stay and help support his seven brothers. At the age of seventeen, Baldwin old leave his family and move to a neighborhood in New York City, Greenwich Village, which was famous for its artistic environment and free thinkers.
In the book, Grendel many theories were introduced. These theories were introduced because of the author, John Gardner, who wanted to go through the main ideas of Western Civilization and because Gardner wanted to relate the book to faith and reason. The theories that Gardner introduced were existentialism, nihilism, anarchy, and modernism. Although the theory that was constantly used by many of the characters was nihilism. Nihilism is a theory that moral principles and beliefs are meaningless and that life is useless and meaningless.
Ida Tarbell: Making a Difference in the World From breaking the rules to mending them, Ida Tarbell has played a crucial role in making the world a better place for businesses, workers, and citizens. She always fought for what she believed in and wrote the truth about the world surrounding her. Ida would stop at nothing until she found the answers that she was looking for and wouldn’t let anyone get in her way. She was a fearless woman who didn’t let the rules of society hold her back. Ida was a great muckraker during the late 1870’s, and up until the beginning of World War II, in 1944.
Jackie Robinson was born on a plantation near Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919. When he was 6 months old, his father left. His mother moved the family to California. With the help of a niece, his mother bought a house in a white neighborhood in Pasadena Jackie was proud of his mother, who would not allow the white neighbors to drive her
Garvey’s role in the Harlem Renaissance was so big and inspired leaders of the civil rights movement. Marcus Garvey was the founder of the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association). He wanted to unify Africans using commerce and education. That was the goal of the UNIA. Garvey’s main goal was to initiate black educational institutions which allowed blacks to grow economic control of their own lives.
He was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His dad left when he was just an infant. Like most of the small population of blacks in the area he lived a life of poverty and toil (Conrads 2). This passage shows he had a tough childhood. When he was young they moved to Pasadena, California
Washington was born a slave in Hale’s Ford Virginia, in 1856 and would be released when he was nine years old when the Civil War had ended. After his time as a slave, he had worked in a salt furnace and as a houseboy where he learned of morality and cleanliness. Booker T. then got his education years later at Hampton Institute, a school devoted to industrial education. Booker T. would later go on to found the Tuskegee Institute, This formed the basis of his philosophy on progressivism for African Americans, for people to accommodate themselves and focus on economic self-improvement. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington Massachusetts in 1868, and was born a free man, three years after the Civil War.
James Baldwin is an activist and writer that was born and raised in Harlem that stood for equality within the black community. Baldwin is the grandson of a former slave and was the oldest of nine children where he grew up in poverty. At the age of fourteen, he discovered his passion for writing and reading by his hobby was going to libraries. As year He published his first book in 1955 known as Notes of a Native Son. The novel Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin displays a collection of essays of where he critiques racism and examines the culture of Blacks in White America.
Langston Hughes was born February 1st, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. In the roaring 20’s he started writing professionally and was essential in portraying black life in America. Hughes grew up in a time of social injustice involving the treatment of minorities (specifically African Americans). As his career went on the Harlem Renaissance became a major movement in which he was essential to.
Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp. His father was a teacher and his mother a domestic worker. Tutu grew up in the apartheid era but seems to have made the best out of it. He was completely dedicated to the anti-apartheid cause. From being an Anglican priest, Tutu became general secretary of the South African council of Churches and then rose to become the first black Archbishop of Cape Town.
