do you think that rosa parks and martim luther king jr. made a difference in people back then and now???
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Of course they made some difference, but folks need to think \nfor themselves . I have noticed that blacks in general do not go \nout of their way to help each other like Jews, etc. have gone \nthrough a rough time, but have supported one another.
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I would believe it was much harder for all minorities, period, in decades past then it is today. We have so much more opportunities offered to us because of past struggles that were won by REAL civil rights leaders in this country (Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X) as opposed to the substitute teachers we have today telling us that things are still bad and will continue to tell us things are still bad as long as they are getting rich (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson). Racism still exists, but the law isn't protecting that anymore. We have been allowed to rise up, go to school, be productive and compete side-by-side. As my father has taught me, you are only respected if you respect yourself. Once you have that, respect will be given and well-earned.
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Depends on the region of US.  The South was openly segregated through the '60's.  That's part of what the civil rights movement was about.
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No.Because Cesar Chavez became in notice of people in the late 80s or 90s and Martin Luther were in the 60s.
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INTRODUCTION\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr., is best known nationally and internationally for his leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement [1] and his subsequent efforts to promote world peace and economic equality. The Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, located in the historic east side Atlanta black community where King was reared and to which he later returned in the height of his activism, commemorates King's lifetime achievements. The Site preserves the King Birth Home and the immediate historic black neighborhood where King spent his youth. The larger "Sweet Auburn" community, which served as the economic, cultural, and religious center for Atlanta's segregated black population from 1910 through the 1960s, greatly influenced King both as a youth and as an adult.\n\nOn January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta at 501 Auburn Avenue within a prosperous black commercial and residential district. He lived in this house with his mother, father, grandparents, sister, brother, and an occasional boarder until he was twelve years old. King attended public schools nearby and walked to services at Ebenezer Baptist, where his maternal grandfather and father served as ministers. In 1941, the family moved to another house within the Auburn Avenue community, and King commuted to Atlanta University on the west side to attend high school classes. As an adult, King left Atlanta to attend Crozer Seminary, in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, and continued his education at Boston University. King led the members of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. while completing his doctorate in theology at Boston University. After serving in Montgomery for six years, King traveled to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and eventually moved to the city in 1960. The dominant force in the SCLC, King also co-pastored at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Auburn Avenue community with his father.\n\nFew nationally significant civil rights activities occurred under King's mantle in Atlanta. However, King served upon the governing board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), headquartered in Atlanta, participated in a lunch counter boycott at Rich's department store, a well-known Atlanta commercial establishment, and supported black Atlanta union members in a strike. King's best known and most effective civil protests occurred outside Atlanta, particularly in Alabama, where blacks wielded little economic, social, or political power.\n\nNevertheless, the black commercial and residential district centered around Auburn Avenue and the prominent black religious institutions in the community had a lasting impact on King and other black community leaders. Throughout the South, civil rights activities relied on strong communities and outspoken religious leaders. Auburn Avenue and its surrounding black residential areas developed as a direct result of segregationist policies common throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern urban centers. Within this milieu of hardship, black economic, cultural, and political institutions waxed, and in some cases, flourished. Auburn Avenue's vitality surpassed that achieved by many southern black communities. This unique community greatly influenced the life path chosen by King, to challenge racism, poverty, and the denial of black civil rights.\n\nAuburn Avenue and its coterminous residential community developed as a stronghold of black Atlanta politics, commerce, spirituality, and Social life. Sweet Auburn described the corridor east of Peachtree to Howell Avenue and north of Auburn to Houston Street. Edgewood Avenue, located just south of Auburn Avenue, developed later predominantly as a white commercial corridor. On both avenues, access to the central business district to the west via
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If you did your research, then probably. I looked around a month ago, and found out he was a Liberal back when he was alive. But as for today, I really dunno b/c I'm not sure what's the difference with today vs. 50 years ago.
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They Are TRYING To Compare APPLES With PINEAPPLES\n\nDr.King Was A Great Man And He Did Great Things For The People In This Country.He Enabled Us To See.\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement Had NOTHING To Do With ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS\n\nThere Is NO DOUBT That The Black Community Suffered GREAT INJUSTICES At The Hand Of A CORRUPT American Government, And WERE TREATED Like SECOND CLASS (Or Worse),And During Those Years When Dr. King Was Still TRYING To Open Our Eyes,The Black Community Was Being Treated DISGRACEFULLY\nIt Is Through His Perseverence And The Regretful Loss Of His Life,That His Memory Has Given This Country The Strength To Overcome Those Indignities\n\nThe Black Community In Our Nation Is Largely Composed Of A People That Were VICIOUSLY STOLEN From Their HOMES And FAMILIES And Brought To This Country AGAINST Their Will, And TREATED Like ANIMALS And PROPERTY,  \n\nILLEGAL ALIENS in America are here only because they are GUILTY of CRIMINAL VIOLATION of our FEDERAL LAWS, Jumping our borders and living in a shadowy underground economy. They are morally culpable for shoving aside those who adhere to the law and enter these United States in orderly and Legal Fashion. \nSince when do criminals and cheaters receive pride of place for the blessings of liberty, over those honestly, earnestly and faithfully seeking to become American citizens? \nThese Issues Would NOT Be In The Forefront At This Time If Immigrants From ALL Nations Took The BASIC STEPS To adhere to the law and enter these United States in orderly and Legal Fashion.\n\nTHERE IS NO INJUSTICE HERE-WHERE IS THE INJUSTICE???\nILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SNEAK Into Our Nation, \nAnd Are Attempting To STEAL THE RIGHTS That Dr. King FOUGHT SO HARD And GAVE HIS LIFE To Get For His Community, \nAnd Then They Have The AUDACITY To COMPARE This To The CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT???\n\nNOONE Held YOU In Chains-\nNOONE Bought Or Sold YOU-\nOr HUNG YOU From A TREE And WHIPPED You-\nYOU NEVER Had To Sit At The Back Of The BUS - \nYOU NEVER WERE DENIED SERVICE At A LUNCH COUNTER- \nOr DENIED The Use Of A RESTROOM-\nOr A WATER FOUNTAIN-\nOr A SCHOOL- \nOr A HOSPITAL-\n\nNOT ONE OF YOU EVER ONCE Had To Experience The INDIGNITY That The Black Community Faced In This Nation\n\nDr. King GAVE HIS LIFE So That People In This Nation Would ACCEPT OTHERS And Learn To Look Beyond The COLOR Of A Person(NOT To Be RACIST)\n\nYOU STOLE Your Way Into This Nation To Get UNLIMITED,FREE, HEALTH, EDUCATION, And WELFARE Benefits Out Of The POCKETS Of Hardworking American Citizens(BLACK, WHITE, HISPANIC, ITALIAN, POLISH, Need I Say MORE???)\n\nThe Black Community NEVER HAD The BENEFITS That ILLEGAL Immigrants Are Taking(STEALING)For Granted\n\nThe ILLEGAL Immigrants Were NOT Peacefully Protesting, As  Dr.King Would Have Surely Condoned -  They WERE Of A MOB Mentality And They WERE DEFACING OUR UNITED STATES FLAG.\n\nI NEVER Heard Of ONE Instance Where Dr. King Or ANY Of His People DEFACED Or DESTROYED An American Flag - \nHIS People Protested PEACEFULLY And Were Subject To Even MORE Indignity.\n\n He Was PROUD To Be An American And SET ONE Of The Standards That We Live By As American Citizens Today\n\nThere Is NOT ONE AMONGST Them That Can Even Begin To TRY To \nCompare Himself To The Caliber Of The Man That Dr. King Represented As An AMERICAN CITIZEN\n\nTo Grant ILLEGAL Aliens AMNESTY Would UNDERMINE All The Immigrants That Took The RIGHT Steps To Become Citizens  \n\nAnd I Believe That Dr. King Would Be OUTRAGED At The THOUGHT Of Comparing THIS Issue With HIS EFFORTS To This Nation During HIS Civil Rights Movement \nAnd Im Concerned That The ENTIRE BLACK COMMUNITY In This Country Isnt Feeling OUTRAGED As Well\n\nI Know I Am\n\nGo Back To YOUR COUNTRY \nAnd Start Your OWN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT\nYOU WANT RIGHTS??Petition YOUR Government-\nYOU WANT CIVIL RIGHTS???\nDont STEAL Them From AMERICAN CITIZENS\nBe COURAGEOUS, And STRONG And FIGHT YOUR Government\n\nLike Dr. King Did\n\nAMNESTY Would Surely SHATTER The DREAM\n\n\nP
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Yes, there maybe some issues here but alot of what you have said is true.  Why there is not an an admission of this is unknown to me....I think that in this era people are uncertain of thinking this way since the desegragation and the ongoing violence that race still provokes(Rodney King for ex.).  People that remember this violent time in our county (1960's) do not want it to be repeated and those that have mearly learned about it have been conditioned to ignore the white issues surrounding blacks because it has become "politically incorrect".  There is a seemingly new race "war" brewing...Black's vs. Mexicans.  Now that is ALL our great nation needs..............
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Things haven't change a bit sinse then compared to 50's and 60's esp during the segregation period. Georgia, is the most racist state I know, and mississippi too. I think it's really racist everywhere, things havent changed, martin king did have a dream, that all whites and black would be sitting at the table together, well that dream did come true, because we do have alot of interracial marriages more than we did back in the day. I think now statistically, even the "majority" will disagree with this. but minorities are now becoming the majoritities....
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Two come to mind quickly.\n\nClara Barton- she did heroic work with her life, the heart of a lion that woman and she established the Red Cross.\n\nMartin Luther King Jr.- always admired him. I think he stands for every American's American Dream....one of a better life.\n\nThe idea is new so I  would go with a quarter on both.
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Yes sweetie I know what you mean . There are \nsome people who have a big impact on our lives .
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Martin Luther King Jr
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To me...I think it helped open more oppertunities to colored people, these kind of people now had a freedom that they had not gotten prior to the speech of MLK, In fact, I think, in my veiw, a great speech that we are all created equal among other people, no matter what their skin color is.  And although we come from different states or regions, we are all indivisuals and all the same.  For example, the people here in Hawaii go to Nevada to gample and lose money while over here, there are plenty of ethnicies.  From Filipino to Japanese, you are bound to say the MLK had made one ot the most powerful speeches of all time.  And that my fried had made his dream come true...
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ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIED FOR OUR RIGHTS let remember the ones that died long before any civil rights person. Because we all forget the ones that where slaves and went through it all. MLK was a good man but he wasn't a slave. Let pay respect to the ones that where slaves too, they carried all the burden of slavery. We like to remember the few that help end it, why not the tens of millions that where. Surley their souls cry out that they died from the oppressoins of slavery, just to have this generation to enjoy the benfits of their struggles then not even acknowledge or remember them. What a disrepect!
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Martin Luther King Jr. I don't think he was president though.
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Just off the top of me head...\n\nMartin Luther King\nMalcom X\nGeorge Washington Carver\nRosa Parks\nSydney Potier\nMaya Angelou\nOprah\nHarriet Tubman\n\n...and I'm sure there are a lot more than 100.
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I am Muslim but I still think Dr. Martin Luther King was a more effective leader.  He had a mission and that was getting equality and right to vote for people of all races in the United States through peaceful means.  Peaceful means is always more effective than violence. He could have been a better political leader for blacks than Jesse Jackson if he was alive.  Look at Mandela and Gandhi.  The Palestinians could learn a few lessons.  Sucide bombers is not the answer.\n\nMalcolm X had more anger and hatred in him and got pulled into a racist movement which was the "Nation of Islam".  He wanted to highlight the plight of blacks in America and bring in the notion of black superiority.  Later on in his life he went to hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca and embrased true Islam and its unversalist concepts, by then he was assasinated.