Discrimination. Age, Race, and Gender doesn’t matter, it’s only your uniqueness that truly matters. It’s extremely important to stand up for others when needed the most. Without someone to stand up for others, we would NEVER be in the STABLE society we live in, today. Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist. She was involved in a decisive role in both the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and Women’s Rights Movement. Susan happened to be brought up by a family of Quakers with activist traditions. With this, she saw the horrors of slavery, and understood that men and women should be treated equally. Women can do just as much as a man can. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” Later …show more content…
Two very well known activists in this era where, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights Movement in December 1, 1955, when she got arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person and sit in the back of the bus. This led many people to join protests for the cause. One of the people of course was, MLK. Rosa practically made the building blocks for him, and once he was ready to show his true potential, he would come to finish constructing society. Dr. King put the spotlight on prejudice. The marches, determination, live feed sent to televisions led more people to join the cause. Inspired by Gandhi and compared to others, he sought to have a different approach. Non-violence. This was the key to providing equal rights and freedom for ALL Americans. [recall a moment from the movie “Forest Gump”] Within the protests, a march in 1965 for voting rights in Selma, Alabama was recognized as “Bloody Sunday.” "They came toward us, beating us with night sticks, trampling us with horses, releasing the tear gas. I was hit in the head by a state trooper with a nightstick. I had a concussion on the bridge and I thought I was going to die,” said Congressman John Lewis, the one who led the march. Thank goodness that three years later all of this would end. Even though there are some racists and other people who didn’t/don’t like this idea of “merging” as a whole.