It was a time of powerful change; many human rights violations ended or decreased. Hence, several minorities started to lead better lives. This positive change occurred when people stood up against the norms, challenged authorities, and demanded progress. 3. Rosa Parks’ Sit Down for Civil Rights Rosa Parks is popularly remembered as the woman who quietly refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a segregated bus, thereby launching the Civil Rights Movement. A secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP since 1943, she was well aware of the group’s attempts to challenge the Jim Crow laws on public transportation, and supported their plans to instigate a bus boycott. Rosa Parks reputes the common myth that her unwillingness to get up was due to aching feet. “No” she said, “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Although instrumental to the Civil Rights movement, Parks went on to live in anonymity after the protests, working as a seamstress for almost a decade and not receiving national recognition until later in life. Great leadership Franklin D. Roosevelt Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed "FDR," guided America through one of its greatest domestic crises. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was unparalleled, not …show more content…
In Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August”, a book which would later win the Pulitzer Prize, Tuchman argued that European leaders slipped into the Great War essentially by mistake. Every country on the continent miscalculated, underestimating the economic and military costs of a potential war, the likelihood of one breaking out, the possibility of a single event spiraling out of control, and their opponents’ willingness to fight. No country wanted a continental war, but they all got one. It became the most costly and horrifying conflict the world had yet seen, and it was essentially an