1. Martin Luther Kings Impact
It continues its commitment to nonviolent action to achieve social, economic, and political justice and is currently focused on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality, hate crimes, and discrimination. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ... Their demonstrations were met with arrests, assault by fire hoses and police dogs, and imprisonment. ...
Slavery was inherently a system of brutality and coercion in which beating and the breakup of families through the sale of individuals were commonplace. ... Today there is still racial profiling, police brutality and other forms of segregation, but it's less noticeable due to corrective implementation to laws that are still being reviewed. ...
The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...
