Essays on Activism

Jemar Tisby’s lecture session on religion, liberty, and the civil rights movement all repeated through the life of Fannie Lou Hamer was not only entertaining but also quite insightful. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, presents a passionate portrayal of her suffering in a heavily racist culture, which aids…

When addressing human rights activists, one cannot forget Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the most influential human rights activists in the United States of America during the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Luther King died while attempting to better the living conditions of African Americans. Because of…

Malcolm Gladwell distinguishes clearly between conventional civil rights protests and modern protests. In the post, Minor Change: Why the Revolution can not be tweeted, Gladwell claims that conventional advocacy requires personal sacrifice, dedication, and a successful hierarchy of leadership. He believes that social media will improve creativity, connect people together…

Conventionally, the strength of protest is founded on its presence in the popular society, which offers new viewpoints. Video games that are part of popular entertainment should be used to advocate for the interests of oppressed people. Due to the immersive, multi-user and multi-media aspects of contemporary video games, different…

The conversation on rape culture in America today has never been more tense than ever. Recent harassment and abuse cases involving top celebrities have fueled an ever more raging controversy, pitting activists, feminists and concerned people against each other. More pitiful is the fact that the Internet and social media…

Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County in 1822. Araminta Ross was her given name at first, but she later took her mother’s maiden name, Harriet. She was the slave’s daughter of Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross. She did housework, including becoming a child nurse, when she was just five…

Before the adoption of the letter X to signify the lack of his African tribal identity, Malcolm X was known as Malcolm Little. He was born in 1925 in Nebraska, and his political activity started with his conversion to Islam. Learning to Read was based on interviews gathered shortly before…

Harriet Tubman was a well-known civil rights activist. She escaped slavery and led abolitionist efforts throughout her lifetime. In this manner, she was able to lead many people out of slavery and away from the white enslavers through underground railroads. In the year 1849, Tubman was born into slavery. Maryland…

Rosa Parks was a civil rights pioneer best known for her refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus for a white man in 1955, which helped to kickstart the civil rights movement. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. (Brittain 2). Ironically, it has…

Make four lists of potential targets for activism. The goals for which organization activism is recommended, one for regulatory advocacy, one for legal advocacy, and the last for group advocacy, should be included in one list. As noted in the book, proponents should use indirect approaches to gather statistics on…