THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO END RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: A MILESTONE OF MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO END RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: A MILESTONE OF MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
Author(s): Flavia Ghencea, Anca Magiru, Ionel MagiruSubject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien/ Österreichisch-Rumänischer Akademischer Verein
Keywords: civil rights; american history; racial discrimination;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the struggle for the civil rights of the black Americans, in the fifties, and its consequences for the present generation. The double purpose of this article is to present: 1. the blacks’ rights and/or lack of them in the 1950s and their nonviolent struggle in getting them and, 2. the appreciation they finally enjoy, nowadays. In the end, the article highlights the idea that Martin Luther King’s words, “Hatred paralizes life, love releases it, hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it, hatred darkens life, love illuminates it”, prove to come true.
Journal: Conferința Internațională Educație și Creativitate pentru o Societate Bazată pe Cunoaștere - DREPT
- Issue Year: VII/2013
- Issue No: VII
- Page Range: 66-69
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English