Changing how someone thinks, sees, and feels. Having your own opinion? This is what teen activists do. Teen activists stand up for what they believe in and change the world. Being a teen activist has struggles. It takes hard work, energy, time, and more. A teen activist is a person who speaks their opinion, finds a way to solve their issue they came up with, and have a way to help them out. Lots of teen activists speak out around the world. For one of many examples, one person is Malala. According
In her autobiography I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers, caregivers, and social activists in a conflicting age of progress, hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Hilda Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father
Langston Hughes is known as one of the best African American poets, social activist, novelist, and playwright. He was a very influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance, which is the rebirth of the arts for African Americans in the 1920’s. Hughes wrote about the world and its happenings around him and he gave a voice for all African Americans during a very harsh time of segregation. Langston Hughes influenced many African American writers and poets during that time. Together, they changed how