cruel treatment slaves faced. Political upheaval in the forms of the Abolitionist Movement and the Civil War occured from people who disagreed with the ownership of slaves. Debates on whether or not slaves deserve equal rights and representation became central in politics. Even after slavery was abolished its effects were still visible. Unjust treatment between white and black people sparked the Civil Rights Movement and its subsequent impacts. Social separation and implications between races are
integrated America. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are two prominent figures who helped transform America into a more united nation. On March 26, 1964, they met at the United States Capitol building to witness the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to the photograph of Document A, both men expressed mutual respect and warmth through shaking hands and smiling at the camera. This indicates that even though Martin Luther King and Malcolm X both share a common mission of ending racial
X-Men: First Class is an allegory for bigotry as a whole and mostly, underscores racisms and gay rights through the mutants’ experience of discrimination and inner struggle with self–acceptance– reflecting the oppression experienced by racial minority groups and the queer community in society today. “They (humans) will fear us and that fear will turn to hatred.” (Singer et al. & Vaughn, 2011) Because of the astounding powers mutants possessed and much is unknown about them, humans feared them, similar
Johnson, Maya Angelou, then three, was sent to live with her grandmother, Annie Henderson. Writing about her growing up years in Stamps, Arkansas in her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1971), Angelou describes the helplessness and social disadvantage blacks faced in almost all situations, calling herself and her brother ‘explorers walking without weapons into man-eating animals’ territory.’ She felt that ‘people are those who live on my side of town…’ showing apparent in-group
still exists as a genetic disease coming from generation to generation. Especially racism is commonly associated with “black and white people” when “white people” think and behave as they are higher and more human than “black people”. Such beliefs were used as a powerful weapon stimulating fear, fear to use free speech, fear to have rights or fear to live full life as human being. Black skinned population