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Pros And Cons Of The Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King, he who said “I have a dream”. He who fought for our civil rights, he who died from believing in us. He who helped end slavery yesterday but, look upon what we have become today. What about, Rosa Parks, she who refused to get off the bus and walk on through the back of the bus and they who refused to give up their seat up on the bus for a white man. Harriet Tubman, she who risked herself, her family, and her friend’s life to take them to the promise land or freedom. Then there was Frederick Douglass, he who escaped from being a slave and into a freeman and an abolitionist. He who was motivated by the saying of his master words, "If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his …show more content…

How they stood up for what right. The way they marched was heart moving and so we celebrate them for a whole month. It’s not just all about the civil rights. This month also celebrates all black African Americans from everywhere. It celebrates our accomplishments and achievements. How we are equal and free, but that the funny part to me because I honestly do not think this is true especially calling America a democracy. There are a lot of pros and cons of the USA but I feel that something is not right especially our black neighborhoods where all you hear most of the time gunshots and people dying so did the civil rights actually help change our …show more content…

The reason I said this is because of the fact that America can’t even call itself a democracy nor can it call itself a nation. They say that people around the world come here for the American dream but is it really? How can we call America a dream when it’s not? How can we when live know that our civil rights are being abused. The people that died for us died for a hope that things would change but it still did not. We are abusing them every day. The main one who is abusing our civil rights now is Donald Trump. He is taking people rights inside and how but, I just don’t get it. Why did they fight for equal rights when everywhere you go or every corner you turn there is always somebody being racist? The first commandment states that, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That is no longer true is it because Donald trump decides to ban all of the emigrants and deports them back to their

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As Thurgood Marshall once stated, "Racism separates but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear, once given a foothold, binds, consumes and imprisons" (Thurgood Marshall). What Douglass did was he stood up to this racism. Douglass prevented slavery from spreading, he wrote speeches and communicated that only evil has come and will continue to come from slavery. Douglass saw slave owners as kidnappers he described them as “wicked men” (Harcourt, Houghton M 146).

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She said, “I freed a thousand slaves, and could have freed a thousand more if they had known they were slaves.” (Harriet Tubman) Frederick Douglass ( ex-slave born 1818- 1895) he was a conductor throughout the underground railroad, he also wrote the Northstar

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People had very distinct thoughts about slaves, of these people were Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, and James Hammond. They believed that slaves were unable to be educated, not compassionate, and not able to think ahead. However, Frederick Douglass is a counter to all of these. He was first taught to read and write, once he was unable to be taught by someone else he taught himself. He cared very much for his fellow slaves, taught them to read and he included them in his plant to run away from Mr. Freeland.

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Frederick Douglass     He was born into slavery and worked on a slave farm in Maryland and in Baltimore when he was very young. Although Douglass got a bit more freedom than any other slave did down south. Slave were allowed or granted with nothing at all because they were slaves and people believe that they deserve nothing but to work more very little or not at all. During his free time Douglass his slave owner's wife had taught him how to read and write but her husband ended that quickly. Shortly after that he found ways to teach him.

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Douglass’s life as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s to his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the 1890s. For sixteen years he edited an influential black newspaper, The North Star, and achieved international fame as a writer of great persuasive power. In thousands of speeches and editorials he levied an irresistible indictment against slavery and racism, provided an indomitable voice of hope for his people, embraced antislavery politics, and preached his own brand of American ideals. One of the reasons Frederick Douglass is the greatest reformer of all time is because he analyzed what he was advocating for well. This was especially hard for blacks at the time because they were put in a sort of bubble, isolated and feeling like they didn’t have the ability to stand up for themselves.

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Fredrick Douglass was a prominent figure as a leader in the fight against the continuance of slavery in Antebellum American. Douglass had been born into slavery but through a series of kindness, a willingness to learn, and a sharp intellect he was able to find his way to freedom literate and ready to help recuse his fellow slaves. Education beyond their manual labor, a deeper understanding into the truth behind their taught Christianity, and the willingness to share his experiences of hate, pain, and abuse allowed Douglass to place himself apart from his peers and reach a level that garnered him the support to make changes in the world. Education to a slave was an unfamiliar concept. They were taught how to build, farm, maintain, and cook

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