“I have a dream…” a wise man once said. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the many who stood up for their rights as a legal citizen in America. He and all the others just wanted fair, equal lives like everyone else. Racism has been going on for a very long time, and it still is happening today. In the source, “Leaders of the Freedom Riders,” an interview between Bernard Keith Jarvis and civil rights advocate James Farmer, the two discuss how Farmer had dealt with racism in his whole life, and how he would try many things to make a difference. In another source, “Civil Rights Movement Cartoon: Watch this Civil Rights Movement for Children Cartoon” the video goes into more depth information about all the changes that have occurred over
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In the interview between the civil rights advocate James Farmer and the interviewer Bernard Keith Jarvis, Farmer discusses the important matters relating to the Freedom Riders of how unfair some people have been treated and how even one person can make a difference. Even though some more young people don't even know what the difference is, but a lot of people still discriminate and rude and unfair to little kids. As Farmer said in the interview, “...when I was three and a half years old, that I became acquainted with segregation. I could not buy a Coca-Cola in a drugstore downtown even though a little white boy could” (Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne, 254). A young three and a half year old was being put into danger all because he wanted a Coca-Cola from a local …show more content…
In the year 1964, a new civil rights act was passed in the United States. These laws were as follows, “Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or natural origin” (Fresberg Cartoon). These laws all exist for the past 54 years, and yet many still do not follow or know these laws exist. Making an awareness of these rules is one of the beginning steps to equality, and yet it still hasn’t been done yet. As the video also explained, over time, many civil rights activists have made huge differences in our civilization. Two of the many examples that this source explains is all about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and their effects. Rosa Parks was just a regular woman, wanting to make a difference. During the tie that she lived, being both an African American and a woman was not easy. She did not have nearly as many rights as the privileged did. SHe is now known for beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As the video explains that Rosa Parks “...refused to be treated unfairly on a bus” (Fresberg Cartoon). Because Parks wasn’t afraid of what she had coming, she stood up for her and all other African American rights making her an important woman in our history. Her work soon was one of the help that leads to the civil rights movement of 1964.
In the interview between the civil rights advocate James Farmer and the interviewer Bernard Keith Jarvis, Farmer discusses the important matters relating to the Freedom Riders of how unfair some people have been treated and how even one person can make a difference. Even though some more young people don't even know what the difference is, but a lot of people still discriminate and rude and unfair to little kids. As Farmer said in the interview, “...when I was three and a half years old, that I became acquainted with segregation. I could not buy a Coca-Cola in a drugstore downtown even though a little white boy could” (Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne, 254). A young three and a half year old was being put into danger all because he wanted a Coca-Cola from a local …show more content…
In the year 1964, a new civil rights act was passed in the United States. These laws were as follows, “Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or natural origin” (Fresberg Cartoon). These laws all exist for the past 54 years, and yet many still do not follow or know these laws exist. Making an awareness of these rules is one of the beginning steps to equality, and yet it still hasn’t been done yet. As the video also explained, over time, many civil rights activists have made huge differences in our civilization. Two of the many examples that this source explains is all about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and their effects. Rosa Parks was just a regular woman, wanting to make a difference. During the tie that she lived, being both an African American and a woman was not easy. She did not have nearly as many rights as the privileged did. SHe is now known for beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As the video explains that Rosa Parks “...refused to be treated unfairly on a bus” (Fresberg Cartoon). Because Parks wasn’t afraid of what she had coming, she stood up for her and all other African American rights making her an important woman in our history. Her work soon was one of the help that leads to the civil rights movement of 1964.