Essays on Activism

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 twentieth century was riddled with large amounts of political activism and protests. There were countless numbers of political groups and organizations attempting to get their message accepted and goals completed. Two examples of political activism are the Disneyland Gay Days and the attempted MTV...

Asian Americans at the Forefront of Change 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 Civil Rights Movement was a variety of activism that wanted to secure all political and social rights for African Americans in 1946-1968. It had many different approaches from lawsuits, lobbying the federal government, massdirect action, and black power. The high point of the Civil...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Life generally, never works out the way we want it. Throughout our lives we are in a constant battle with the world and our surroundings. It is up to the person as an individual to decide what they want for themselves. In the novel I...

DeQuincey Newman was a methodist pastor, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur, leda remarkable life. He was a leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina. Hehelped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, helped found the ProgressiveDemocratic Party, and served the...

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...

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these...

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...

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...

Harriet Tubman, better known to her people as Moses, helped saved around hundreds of slaves from slavery, risking her life with each trip. She was a strong black woman, a one man, or in reality, woman army. She fought for what she believed in, even...