Analysis Of The Port Huron Statement

The truth is, society will never be perfect for the needs and desires of every individual in America. The problems in America become forefront in the 1960s as people will not accept being discriminated any longer. The common problems mentioned in the Port Huron Statement, Black Panthers Ten-Point Program, and the “Letter from Delano” consist of the violation of individual rights, racial injustices, and economic manipulation. Specifically in the Port Huron Statement, the Students for Democratic Society including large contributions from Tom Hayden focused on the ways African Americans “ comfort was penetrated…fact of human degradation,” which did not allow them to have equality amongst all other Americans in America (Document 7). This society

Newton and Bobby Seale state that they want “power to determine the destiny of our Black Communities,” as in the right for African American to be granted the right to full employment, decent housing, trial by jury, land, justice, and peace (Document 8). Instead what they robbed by the capitalist, forced to go into military services, and murdered and brutalized by the police. As in the Port Huron Statement, the Black Panthers Society mentions how all men are created equal as their defending claim towards all of the issues and problems in America. According to them, that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it” in order to be able to practice all of their rights (Document 8). The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 and ensured all Americans national citizenship in America, which gave them all of the basic rights of a citizen. The Black Panthers Society strongly believed that African Americans did not have any secure rights like other Americans had because of the constant discrimination they faces in their daily lives. Their main problem is with the destructive actions of the government which they best believe should be resolved by throwing off the government and coming up with new policies and guards for their ensured security in

He wanted to give farm workers the opportunity to “ have without bloodshed their own union and the dignity of bargaining with their agribusiness employers,” by creating the Delano grape strike of 1965 that would fight for better pay and protection rights for grape growers. The intentions of these documents are all centered on a different problem, but all tie back to the equal rights entitled to every American in the United States. Evidently, the steps that need to be taken by Americans to achieve social justice vary as each document has come up with their own ideas on a reasonable solution to help end social injustice in America. The Port Huron Statement called for solutions through “participatory democracy,” meaning that the people are in power and that all democracies are participatory (Document 7). Students like Tom Hayden wanted to redefine the conditions of social order so that all men can have human independance. As for the Ten-Point Program, Black Party members were seeking to resolve social injustice by making a platform of all of the request/needs/and wants of the Black community. Not only did this party want to explain why they were formed, but the purpose of their group and what they were going to fight for. Civil rights activist Caesar Chavez believed in solving this issue with a boycott which created an