5 African American Characters Who Changed The Story Acts

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Zulaima 🌹🍀

· 13 Feb 2021

5 African American Characters Who Changed The Story Acts

#blacklivesmatter “We hold as evident in themselves these truths: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.". This is the beginning of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, issued on July 4, 1776. On paper, these words can have great meaning for minorities, but in society everything changes tone and does not seem to matter.

In the United States there was slavery of Africans and discrimination against Native American peoples. In Japan and other Asian regions it was intended to maintain the purity of the race by pointing out and denigrating foreigners. Latin America was abused by European powers and we all know what happened to Hitler in Germany and his supremacist ideas.

Racism is man's greatest backwardness and endures to the present day to a great extent. But despite this, there are people who have raised their faces to cope with this situation.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

King began her rush after the arrest of one of her companions in the case, Rosa Parks, who was arrested for not giving her bus seat to a white man.

His fame rose like foam, leading a multitude of associations, congresses and pacifist conferences throughout the country.

In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King's struggle reached its peak as he led a pacifist protest through the streets of Washington. More than 250,000 people attended the march, where the activist delivered the most inspiring speech of his entire career: 'I have a dream'.

Martin Luther King always stood firm in promoting non-violence as the main tactic of the civil rights movement and because of his peaceful struggle he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

NELSON MANDELA

If the importance of the figure of Nelson Mandela had to be summarized in a few words, it would be enough to say that it was the person who got blacks and whites to live peacefully in South Africa. In addition, the country's first black president, after decades of white domination over the South African black majority.

He was also, perhaps, the best-known prisoner in history. The number he was in prison, 46,664, became a symbol worldwide and an example of the struggle for human rights. He spent 27 years in prison for fighting the “white" regime which, through repressive and racist laws, separated and discriminated against the black population of South Africa.

He was accused of “high treason" for promoting and defending interracial equality. But in the end their struggle and their sacrifices were rewarded. Mandela, symbol of freedom worldwide, was released in 1990 and began working with the then-president of South Africa, Frederik de Klerk, to achieve a multiracial democracy in the country. Mandela and De Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and in April 1994, after more than 4 decades of repression of the white minority towards the black majority, South Africa's first multiracial elections were held.

BARACK OBAMA

At the beginning of his term, what his Republican enemies most regretted was not the unemployment rate, but the deficit. This has fallen by more than 70%, the lowest since 2007, but, interestingly, no Republican recognizes it. Obama rescued the automotive industry, and saved the country from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

At the same time, Obama has done more than any other president to combat climate change, leading the Paris agreement with the signing of nearly 200 nations, which deserved the applause of Pope Francis. Over the years, the country has seen the largest investment in its history in renewable energy: solar energy employs more workers today than the coal and wind industry is already cheaper than traditional energy.

During this government, the Dodd-Frank reform was implemented to prevent the 2008 crisis, unleashed by the joyful Wall Street boys, from repeating. The tax on the richest was increased; the public health system, Obamacare, was reformed today with 18 million more insured persons; and gay marriage was legalized nationally, a real triumph of human rights and social equality.

OPRAH WINFREY

Winfrey used his personal experience as a victim of abuse as a lever to drive social change in the face of such problems. In 1991, as a well-known television presenter, she went to the Senate of her country to testify before a committee studying the National Child Protection Act, which proposed the creation of a database containing the names of all persons convicted of abuses in the country minors.

“I speak here on behalf of children who wish to be heard, but whose cries, desires and hopes I think often fall into deaf ears," he said then. His testimony took effect and two years later then-President Bill Clinton signed legislation that was since named the “Oprah Law."

In 1986 he founded Harpo Producciones. Inc ('Oprah' upside down), and in 1988 he bought a production studio in Chicago and took over the production of his show. This fact made her become the third woman in history to own and produce her own program, as well as the first African-American, regardless of sex, to own her own production and entertainment company.

THURGOOD MARSHALL

Thurgood Marshall was a distinguished civil rights lawyer who had served as Attorney General for two years when Supreme Court Judge Tom Clark retired in 1967.

Marshall was a hero of the American civil rights movement, which successfully fought against segregation in schools in the famous Brown Supreme Court case vs.. Education Committee in 1954.

As a lawyer for the NAACP, he won many civil rights cases and would win 29 of his 32 cases before the Supreme Court. Marshall continued to fight for civil rights as a Supreme Court judge, campaigning for affirmative action programs. Marshall retired in 1991 and died two years later, at 84 years of age.

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