Civil Rights
If it weren’t for the past, where would we be today? If it wasn’t for the trials and tribulations of are ancestors would we have our freedom? These questions could be answered with a simple yes or no, but the eyes of most people it means hope, hope for a life of equal opportunities as any other race. Through the course of time African Americans have made positive changes for a better world today. Take the bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama for instance, a group of African Americans united together for their right not to sit on the back of the bus and now we can sit where we want. Also the situation at Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas when nine African Americans students attempted and succeeded in attending an all white school to get a better education and now we can go to school where we want. Or the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama and the march over the Edmund Pettis Bridge now we can vote and the age of 18 and it doesn’t matter what race you are. Throughout the years the ways of the human race have made a dramatic changed in to the world we all know today. The past has accumulated many positive changes, and if it wasn’t for the negatives their would be no room the positive aspects. Now, African Americans
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Approximate Word count = 907
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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