A Revolution
In history there has always been one group of people who are singled out. They are singled out because of what, and who they are, and they act how they look, and sometimes even what religion they are. A few examples are the Jews in the Holocaust, the Japanese in World War II, and the African Americans in the mid 1900’s. Each group has had to deal with discrimination, hatred, and terror. Their suffering fought for change and acceptance. Because of their fight for change, now most groups are accepted.
One group that suffered a lot, are the African Americans. In the early to mid 1900’s they suffered from some of the most discrimination imaginable. Some of the discrimination they had to go through was seperate drinking fountains for black and white people. Black people had to give up their seat on the buss, black and white kids could not go to school together, and the list goes on and on. If they didn’t do the above then they would get in trouble or even get arrested. One of the biggest leaders to stop discrimination would be Rosa Parks. After a long day of work, Parks was sitting in the front of the buss and was asked to move to the back so a white man could sit down. Parks refused to move and ended up being arrested because someone wanted to sit where she was. This was the beginning of the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. was also a major leader of the civil rights movement. He was one of the first to really try to stop discrimination. Some of the discrimination that King had to go through was terrible. He had bricks thrown at his house, and even a cross set to flames in his front yard. King wanted things to change. King was one of the biggest leaders in the civil rights movement. If he had not tried to change things back then now things would be much more different now.
Because of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, things are much different for us now. Now, everyone is treated as an equal. There are no more separate fountains, schools or restaurants. Everyone, no matter black, or white are friends and all are treated equally.
