Who is your idol? Who inspires you? For many young adults in the 60s, Joan Baez was their inspiration. Out of all the people helping in the civil rights movement Joan Baez inspired young adults the most. Joan Baez didn’t believe in fighting, but she did want what was right for everyone. In addition, Joan Baez wrote music talking about political issues and how she hopes that one day we will get over these hardships. For many people Joan Baez was a voice for those who were too afraid to speak up. Joan Baez never believed in fighting with violence only with words.I read on thirteen.org that “Joan Baez is not only a music icon, but she has always been at the forefront as spokeswoman of world peace.”(Quote by: Pam Strout). In other words, Joan …show more content…
And obviously I was the one for the job.” (quote from inspiringquotes.us) When Joan Baez said this must’ve meant that the world was in bad place and it needed a leader, and she is saying that she was the right person to lead them. She knew that people needed help, and so she decided that she was going to step up and be the leader that they needed. A quote from lokashakti.org says “The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.” To explain, Joan Baez wanted to be a leader, but not the kind of leader that lead people into war. When she says a “strong new floor” she means that if we have strong platform or in other words, a working political system that keeps things equal we will have a civilized civilization. “The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.” (inspiringquotes.us) This tells us that it’s easier to talk to someone when you have thousands of people to back you up, but it’s harder when you’re all alone trying to convince someone of something. Joan Baez was a leader, and is an inspiration to other people to be a
Joan Baez, a famous folk singer, sang her most famous song “Oh Freedom” during the civil rights movement. She expressed her want and need for equality and freedom f...
Josephine Baker was an exceptional woman who never depended on a man. She never hesitated to leave a man when she felt good and ready. In her lifetime she accomplished many great things. She adopted 12 children, served France during World War II, and was an honorable correspondent for the French Resistance. She fought against fascism in Europe during World War II and racism in the United States. She grew up poor and left home at an early age and worked her way onto the stage. Baker was more popular in France than in the states. Audiences in America were racist towards Baker and that’s when she vowed she wouldn’t perform in a place that wasn’t integrated.
Sojourner: Lucretia Mott was the greatest. She encouraged me to join the women’s rights movement. There was also Frances Dana Gage who gave me the line "Ar 'n 't I a Woman?" that made me famous and was really written to get it in people’s heads that just because I am black doesn’t mean I am not a woman also. Harriet Beecher Stowe also wrote an amazing essay about me that just touched my
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body”. Margaret Sanger stated this quote for the purpose of letting all women know that they should have the choice to make decisions about their own body whenever plausible. She seemed to feel as though, if women can’t obtain control over what they want to do with their body, then they can never truly be free in other manners as well. Sanger is an amazingly determined woman who was able to give all women the chance to gain control and power over their body. Margaret Sanger is an important figure in the 1920s American History because not only did she create and establish the first birth control clinics, but she also gave women the chance to take control over their body.
Music was used as a critical instrument in the early 20th century in mobilizing and inspiring the civil rights movement by giving them more voice to bring out their grievances. According to Kerk (2007, p.18) Martin Luther king was the most prolific figure who utilized music to sensitize society, “we believe that freedom songs play a big and vital part in the struggle that we are going through” this words were also echoed by the Albany movement “music keeps us a live, it gives us a sense of unity, new courage every dawn, hope to move on that the future still holds something in our most daring and dreadful hours”
The 1960’s was one of the most controversial decades in American history because of not only the Vietnam War, but there was an outbreak of protests involving civil and social conditions all across college campuses. These protests have been taken to the extent where people either have died or have been seriously injured. However, during the 1960’s, America saw a popular form of art known as protest music, which responded to the social turmoil of that era, from the civil rights movement to the war in Vietnam. A veritable pantheon of musicians, such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan sang their songs to encourage union organizers to protest the inequities of their time, creating a diverse variety of popular protest music, which has reached out to the youthful generations everywhere demanding for a revolutionary change. The protest music took the children of the 1960’s to a completely new different level. Musicians of this generation were not going to sit and do nothing while the government lied to the people about what was going on in Vietnam. Instead, they took their guitar-strumming troubadours from the coffee houses, plugged them in, and sent the music and the message into the college dorm rooms and the homes of the youth of America. However, as decades went by, protest music does not have much of an impact as it use to because of the way things have changed over the years. Through the analysis of the music during the 1960’s, there shall be an understanding on how the different genres of protest music has affected social protesters based on how musicians have become the collective conscience of that generation through their lyrics and music and the main factors that contributed to the lack of popula...
The first sign of music changing in society can be seen in the differences between songs protesting the Korean and Vietnam wars. In 1952, America was in the heat of the Korean war, and the music in the background was folky and simple such as Pete Seeger’s “This Land is Your Land.” At that time, only one man, Ernest Tubb, dared protest this war. Even when Tubb wrote songs protesting the war, his lyrics had a softer tone than later rock and roll protest songs. “Dear Mom, was the way that it started / I miss you so much, / It went on Mom, I didn't know, that I loved you so / But I'll prove it when this war is won” (Tubb). Writing to his mother makes this song much softer and sweeter than songs of the later era. Word choices such as “I miss you so much” and the framing of the song as a letter make this song more of a simple and peaceful protest song. These songs could be seen as sweet and simple, but the artists and lyric writers of the next decade would see these songs as emotionless, and ignorant of the real problems going on around them.
Rosa parks was a phenomenal woman whom played a tremendous part in our history. Rosa Parks was a woman who had changed our history for the best. She was a woman of authority and because of her, our world has changed from segregation to everyone was combined no matter your race, color, or the way you looked.
Nikki Giovanni made numerous fascinating points. The beginning of her essay began with a good amount of questions. Her questions made me realize just how important education really is. Nikki argues that college education is important, and I agree because education is what sets us apart from uneducated people. For example, she mentioned a question regarding jobs, she said “ Being turned down for jobs because you are not college educated?” This question made me think of many of my family members because, a few of them have been turned down from getting a job because they had no college education. This question also made me realize how fortunate I am to have an education. In Nikki’s essay she provided her readers with great advice. For instance, she told her readers to meet with their professors, to do assignments on time, to go back to a professor when you believe you deserved a better grade, and to participate in school activities. I believe the most useful piece of advice that she gave for me was, to go to class.
One of the strongest women scientist/astronomer was born in 1818 as Maria Mitchell whom led an unbelievable life and had an incredible discovery. Maria Mitchell was born when women were not given the opportunity to vote nor did women have the same equal rights as men did, but given her circumstances of her father being a principal, founding his own school and being a distant family member of Benjamin Franklin she was given the same rights as the men did. Given a few obstacles she led an extraordinary life and became the first woman in America to work as an astronomer professionally, which she than later received an award personally from King Frederick VII, for her work and discovery.
Even though jazz was associated with interracial sex and illegal drugs, jazz made a great influence on society, because it was the prayers and answer to the hard tim...
...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
...o grew up in the tight nit-pick culture of the 50s who were influenced by this new wave of music of rock ‘n’ roll. The gap between values of parents and their children grew. As teens became more rebellious, the civil rights movement came to play. It was the same teens and young adults that took this rebellion from rock and made it lead the civil rights movement into action, realizing that not all tradition is right.
A woman once said, “As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” The woman, who said this quote, was Angela Yvonne Davis. Davis was a political activist, scholar, professor, writer, and Communist party member. She was considered to be an international symbol of the black liberation movement to many eyes of the people in the 1960s and 1970s.
Her harsh images and racial digs in this piece do prompt an individual to stop and think, even get angry. Lorde probably meant to point out this problem in its ugly light so to help avoid such tragic losses from happening again. To ensure that not everyone will just step aside when it is their turn to protect and serve our youth of today. Audre Lorde truly appears to be a "warrior" and she certainly has "made her meaning known" as her name, so appropriately means and her poetry so appropriately reflects to its audience. Works Cited Abcarian, Richard, and Marvin Klotz, eds.