Civil Rights Leaders

Frederick was announced as an angent and they met at the white house in august of 1863

Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott after a woman named Rosa Parks was denied a seat because of the color of her skin. For his troubles, his home was bombed and his family's life was put we are in great danger. However, this led to the end of racial segregation being allowed on all public transport. Black Americans and their White American supporters kept the boycott alive for more than a year, and bankrupted a company. Hooray! He fought against southern racism with all his might and effort, and finally it culminated in the march on Washington to demand civil rights for Americans of African Slave Ancestry, who had been called Negroes, and later became known as black Americans and finally African Americans.

Reverend King believed in nonviolence and used Gandhi as an example to lead his campaign for the rights of people who were being oppressed because of their skin color. Before he was murdered for his attempts to bring about fairness, unity and the creation of a nation undivided, he was granted the Nobel Peace Prize.

His "I Have A Dream" speech is the finest speech in the entire history of this nation in its unabashed desire for a nation of ideals. He did not live to see his dream, and it still hasn't come close to being true. His most important contribution was being humble enough to offer up his life for people without a voice or a country.

Orpheus Hodge "King" Fisher was born July 11, 1899 in Chester Pa. His parents were George Albert Fisher and Pauline Conklin, both originally from Baltimore, Maryland.

On July 17, 1943, Orpheus (an architect) married Marian Anderson (American contralto and first African-American to sing at the Met) in Bethel, Conn. The couple lived at their home "Marianna Farm" in Connecticut. Marian Anderson and Orpheus Fisher were married for 43 years when he died March 26, 1986 in Danbury, Conn.

Al Sharpton's height is not confirmed, but according to Yahoo Answers he is about 5'5.

Some people say that Rosa did not leave her seat her seat because she was tired from work. This is not true. She was actually tired of being oppressed by the segregation laws and being treated like a second class citizen, and on that day on the bus she decided to take a stand and say "No". She had worked all day like everyone else and had paid her bus fare the same as everyone else and she believed that she had a right to her seat the same as everyone else.

The speech was called "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" given July 4, 1852 at Rochester, NY

Luther castigated some of the teaching of the Catholic Church

This was a partial quote. It was the beginning of a women's rights speech she gave in 1951. The speech is called, "Ain't I a Woman?" The begining of the speech went:

"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?"

Sojourner was explaining that many of the white men of the time did not see women or blacks as equals. They felt women needed to be helped into carraiges and over mud puddles, but as a woman, she had plowed fields and gathered crops.

There were more to women than many men of the time believed, and they were pushing for rights. She was saying that as women and blacks started gaining rights, it was going to turn against everything these men believed.

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Of course not. Rosa Parks was devout, lifelong Methodist. She is a figure of great respect in the history of the Civil Rights Movement in America. She was a brave black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man on a bus and helped spark the civil rights revolution.

No, none in the way we understand handicaps today. She had all the physical and mental abilities of any other normal person.

Some may argue her color was a social handicap, but that is entirely a judgment of the racial, cultural and legal bias of the society in which she lived, but were no fault of hers.

Sophia Auld taught Fredrick Douglass the Alphabet

he was in the Mexican American War

Education is the best defense. Discrimination results from ignorance and misunderstanding of people. Research has shown that when people become familiar with other cultures and countries they have less discrimination. A global mindset lessens discrimination and this can be achieved through education.

William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the weekly journal the Liberator and abolitionist newspaper. You know you could just refer to Wikipedia.

The phone number of the Montgomery Public - Rosa Parks Avenue Branch is: 334-240-4979.

Malcolm X began his career advocating violence as a means to an end in order to help African Americans attain civil equality, unlike many other leaders who adopted a more passive form of resistance. Towards the end of his life, however, he changed his mind about many things and made peace somewhat with the passive methods of attaining equality.

While Rosa was born in the United States (Tuskegee, Alabama) in 1913, her ancestry was multiracial and multicultural. Her birth name was Rosa Louise McCauley, and according to various sources, she came from a heritage that was African, Native-American (Cherokee-Creek), and Scots-Irish.

She stood up for all African Americans by refusing to give up her seat. She stood up for those who couldn't. Rosa Parks wanted to bring the freedom of speech to all African Americans.

JFK was for and fought for civil rights.

James Farmer (1920-1999) was an early and influential leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was born on January 12, 1920 and died at the age of 79. He would have been 97 years old in 2017.

As a white English 73 year old male from Liverpool, England, I also dream that someday his dream will finally come true.

Frederick Douglass did not bring an end to racism in America, although he did make a contribution toward that objective.

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