A woman walks into the bus after a long, hard day of work and takes a seat near the driver in the front. Two stops later, a white passenger boards and she is asked to move to the back. Upon refusal, she is harshly and forcefully escorted off to jail. Two years of trust and belief in another is all thrown away, after a group of eight Jews are betrayed, caught and shipped off to a concentration came by Nazi officials.
In these two examples, the "art" of discrimination is portrayed. As long as history has begun, discrimination has always been existent throughout the world. People discriminate for a number of reasons; some as simple as appearance and clothing. Others like scapegoating; misunderstanding, and jealousy are more complex forms. Discrimination plays a major role in the causes of mental and physical anguish.
The African American struggle for civil rights was an arduous and tiresome one.
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Martin Luther King leaning on a lectern. Deutsch: ...There was very little hope for change; many facilities were segregated by race, and blacks were deprived of their dignity. Many great leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took a stand against this. His wise words encouraged blacks to restrain from acts of violence, and to conduct their struggle on the "high plane of dignity and discipline".
In Brown vs. Board Of Education, Oliver fought on behalf of his daughter Linda Brown, a third grader forced to walk one mile a day to her black elementary school even though there was a white school only a mere seven blocks away from the Brown residence. When Oliver tried to enroll her into the school, she was refused by the principle, just because of the color of her skin. Although the first case was lost, the NAACP made another attempt. On Dec. 8th 1953,