Essays on Activism

Throughout our country’s history, women have never achieved truly equal rights. Not too long ago, women didn’t even have the right to vote. Women even had to fight for equal education and the right to own property. From 1848 to 1920, when they finally earned...

Being an activist used to mean attending rallies, marching on various capitols, and throwing tea into harbors. This concept was forever changed by the digital revolution, introducing a new breed of activists: Hacktivists. A hacktivist is what the name suggest, and activist who uses computers...

From the Boston Tea Party to current movements like Black Lives Matter, activism and protest has cultivated American society. The American people expressed their dissent and forced change, causing the country to evolve. Asian Americans have been at the forefront of some of these pressing...

In discussions on the relationship between gender and activism, women and men and subsequent ideologies of femininity and masculinity are often the paramount subjects of concern. These discussions might consider how female activists are treated differently than male activists, how activists have gathered around gender-based...

Sexual harassment and abuse has been an oppressive means of belittling women. Men who are in a position of power are able to coerce themselves to feel entitled to any woman’s attention and body. However, as of late, the Me Too movement has proven a...

Movement throughout the Black community is brilliant and reflects within every single action and word from every individual. From the early 19th century to now, music has been a big influence on the protesting and liberation of the Black community. As basic human rights have...

The American Civil Rights movement is considered the most influential and significant movements in our history. Through the history of America, African American people were severely discriminated against, but it was a long chain of events which spurred on the entire black population of America...

Majora Carter is one of New York City’s most well-known activists for environmental justice and economic equality. In February 2006, Carter gave an inspiring and emotionally charged eighteen minute speech on “Greening the Ghetto” at a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey, California. More...

To a significant extent, it can be agreed that the attitudes and atrocities committed towards Mexican American youths of California – ‘Zoot Suiters’, by the main-stream groups during World War II, were discriminative and biased. Despite the Mexican American involvement in the war effort, they...

Back in the early 1870s, women, in general, had limited opportunities and freedom of expression in comparison today’s age of accepting and allowing voices to be heard. One of the many women within this time who felt strongly about this was a woman by the...

The days beginning June 3rd up to June 8th of 1943, a series of conflict took place in Los Angeles, California in which was eventually called “The Zoot Suit Riots”. It was a culmination of cultural differences between Mexican-Americans who have been living in the...

For thousands of years, history has been kept alive through the written word; me and women of virtue, in particular, have recorded social struggles so that future generations can know about the events that transpired over the course of their lifetimes. Through Freedom in the...

Since time in memorial, social injustices have been prevalent which forced our forefathers into activism. Fast forward to the modern day, social injustices are still persistent and continue to compromise our societies. Social conflicts can take many forms. At the same time it is interesting...

Our national heroes really played an important role in achieving our country’s freedom. One example of a national hero that fight for the Filipinos is Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro who sacrificed himself to obtain freedom from our Spanish colonizers. Yet to this day we...

The zoot suit became a common sight in the 1930s and 1940s, with many African-American and Latino youths making it the suit of choice. In the same period, the zoot suit gained even more popularity, but this time for the wrong reason; they were associated...

A child was born on January 15, 1926 to a blind, teenage mother. That child was going to become a man by the name of Hosea Williams, a Civil Rights activist and a politician. William’s mother would die giving birth to a daughter, and said...

In the early 1800s women were not seen as equals. When it came to women having an important part in society, other women were fearful of that. Work was being done around the world, but it took many decades to finally see a change in...

Mexican Americans often wore zoot suit consisted of high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders that displayed their culture. These zoot suits were often worn by Mexican American youths and were attacked because of it. People...

Recently, the now infamous quote by Mitch McConnell about Elizabeth Warren has stricken the hearts and minds of many of America’s gender equality movements. “Nevertheless, she persisted” was said in an attempt to scold Senator Warren, but instead resulted in a positive backlash from women...

Nelson Mandela is one of the most impactful and moral political leaders of modern times. He was an activist, lawyer, father, prisoner, survivor, and eventuality, president. As a vehement believer in human dignity and the equal rights of all people regardless of origins or backgrounds,...

Thabo Mbeki was born in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa on June 18, 1942. Mbeki’s father had a leading role in the activities of the African National Congress (ANC). Mbeki’s parents were always trying to improve the conditions of their community and took part...

All over the world, workplace sexual harassment is a big problem for women and society. This is also true in my home country of India. In this I will discuss about the history of workplace sexual abuse in India and about the Me Too movement...

Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), was truly a global citizen though he worked for the freedom of the Indian nation from foreign. He was born to Putlibai Gandhi and Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which was then part...

The Me Too Movement has become mainstream in media and in culture, it appears that after every court case of accusations such as the Christine Ford hearing, various women feel obligated to come out from the shadows and retaliate as a way of fighting back....

In the late 1910s and 1920s United States was under the air of racial violence. As bad as it sounds it was one of the worst situations of its time. In these circumstances, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was formed by Marcus Garvey’s who wanted...

MeToo movement is a social movement that wants to fight to bring an end to sexual violence and sexual assault that is being done against people, the success of this movement is to take a stand that objectifies individuals The movement is designed to help...

On March 10, 1867, Lillian Wald was born into a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio. She resided with her family in Ohio until 1878 when she moved with her family to Rochester, New York for her father’s career as an optics dealer. Her family...

Segregation was a big issue in African nation’s history and Bob Marley was at the forefront in bringing the world together in peace. His songs of peace and love touched many hearts all over the world, and his legacy has persisted for many years. Bob...

Activism Project Proposal (revision) Backround Racism is a problem in the United States that activists, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and his daughter Yolanda King, have been working to change for centuries. For example, when Yolanda walked the same route as her father in...