Trea Moreland Peavey KMA 28, Feb, 2017 Self Confidence: Gandhi & King Self Confidence is a term describing one’s judgement. Self Confidence is a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgement. Self Confidence can have a majorly profound effect on one’s life. Without confidence in oneself, one will never be a leader in any aspect of life. Self confidence is standing up for what one believes in and fighting one’s own battles and it is necessary to attain the outcome that one desires. History demonstrates that having self confidence benefits individuals as some of the world’s most significant people in history have accomplished many great things through self confidence. India gained its independence in 1947. India is significant …show more content…
Although he had no success, Gandhi was confident enough to continue practicing, soon after accepting an invitation to another Indian law firm which sent him to an office in South Africa. It was there in South Africa that Gandhi experience prejudice and discrimination. At one point a European magistrate asked him to take off his turban while he was in the courtroom and for the sake that it was a part of his faith that he believed in, Gandhi refused and left the courtroom (Early Life, 1). Another was when he was thrown out of a first class railway compartment and beaten up by a white stagecoach driver after refusing to give up his seat for a European passenger. It was at this point that Gandhi realized that he needed to do something about his mistreatment as well as many others. Gandhi began to practice Satyagraha, which is a resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience (Youth for Human Rights, 7). In 1906 after the Transvaal government passed a mandate with reference to the registration of its Indian population, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to relieve the effects of poverty, built religious and ethnic harmony, and expanded women’s rights.He also decimated the malfeasance of the caste system by …show more content…
saw that there was a lack of equality between the colored and the white peoples in 1950’s America. Colored people were being mistreated left and right and King felt like he needed to do something about it. King’s exceptional oratorical skills and self-courage captivated national attention in 1955 when he and other civil rights activists were seized after leading a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama of a transportation company which required that colored people sit at the back of the bus and if the seats were full that they submit their seat to the whites (Youth for Human Rights, 1). King was used as a leader of the civil rights movement because he was well-trained, young, had solid family connections, and he had a professional standing. He was also new to the community and had very few enemies, so it was felt he would establish strong credibility with the black community. In his first speech as a leader of the NAACP, King declared, “We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.” (Montgomery Bus Boycott). African-American civil rights leaders recognized the urgency for a national organization to help organize their efforts. In 1957 King, Ralph
Martin Luther King led the boycott. turned out to be an immediate success, despite the threats and violence against white people. A federal court ordered Montgomery buses. desegregated in November 1956, and the boycott ended in triumph. King led several sit-ins, this kind of movement was a success.
This boycott ended up costing the bus company more than $250,000 in revenue. The bus boycott in Montgomery made King a symbol of racial justice overnight. This boycott helped organize others in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tallahassee. During the 1940s and 1950s the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) won a series of cases that helped put it ahead in the civil rights movement. One of these advancements was achieved in 1944, when the United States Supreme Court banned all-white primaries.
After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, king wanted to end the humiliating treatment of blacks on city bus liners. He decided to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 382 days. Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Montgomery bus segregation laws illegal. King showed great inspiration despite receiving several threatening phone calls, being arrested and having his house being bombed, he still firmly believed in nonviolence. The boycott was the first step to end segregation, king displayed great leadership and educated the whole nation that nonviolence was the best possible was to end a problem, even if it took a while for people to notice your protest.
Enraged by Mrs. Parks arrest the black community of Montgomery united together and organized a boycott of the bus system until the city buses were integrated. The black men and women stayed of the buses until December 20, 1956, almost thirteen months after the boycott their goal was reached. The Montgomery Bus Boycott can be considered a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement because it made Martin Luther King Jr. public leader in the movement, starting point for non-violent protest as an effective tool in the fight for civil rights, showed that African-Americans united for a cause could stand up to segregation.
Bus Boycott- On December 1st, 1955 a black woman named rosa parks did not want to give away her seat in a bus in Montgomery. For this, rosa was arrested and community leaders started a boycott (a type of protest) on the same year Dec 5th. The bus boycott started in a church meeting King hosted. The MIA wanted at least half of the African American people to support them. Eventually, King was made president of the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association), and tried to be a good leader for equal rights, he tried his best to make the bus company and other companies give in to the boycott because most of the businesses were losing their money. When Martin Luther King tried to defend the MIA in court, the bus boycott ended in the last MIA meeting. Whites continued to ...
Over the course of his life, Dr. King would lead and participate in multiple non-violent protests against segregation. On the first of December, 1955, the arrest of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama would trigger the first of many protests led by King. The Montgomery bus boycott would last for 385 days and was so tense that King’s house was bombed. He was later arrested and released after the United States District Courts ruled that segregation on all Montgomery public buses was illegal. This paved the way for King to lead many more protests in his life and becoming a major leader in the desegregation movement.
The NAACP is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, organized in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination” (“NAACP”). In 1955, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat in the middle of the bus so a white man could sit there. Though the city's bus ordinance did give the drivers the authority to assign seats, it didn't specifically give them the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone. Because she didn’t give up her seat, and because of her civil disobedience, she was arrested (“Rosa Parks Biography”). Rosa Parks was not the first woman to get arrested for refusing to give up her seat. Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year old, was the first Montgomery bus passenger to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger (Parks was involved in raising defense funds for Colvin). Three other African-American women, Aurelia Browder, Mary Louise Smith and Susie McDonald, also ran afoul of the bus segregation law prior to Rosa Parks. The four were plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle case. In 1955, King was asked to serve as spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a campaign by the African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama to force integration of the city’s bus lines (“About Dr. King”). Rosa Parks was chosen by King as the face for his campaign because of her good standing with the community, her employment and her marital status. While Rosa was in jail as a victim of Montgomery's racism, King was able to develop an effective response to her arrest that
In late 1955, Dr. King was elected to lead his first public peaceful protest. For the rest of the year and throughout all of 1956, African Americans decided to boycott the Montgomery bus system in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. After 382 days of protest, the city of Montgomery was forced to lift the law mandating segregated public transportation because of the large financial losses they suffered from the protest. King began to receive notice on a national level in 1960. On October ...
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of the Brown v. the Board of Education. This was a very historical moment because their ruling eliminated, the "separate but equal " doctrine. Their ruling called for school integration, although most school were very slow in complying if they complied at all. The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Color People, viewed this ruling as a success. The schools lack of the obedience toward this ruling, made it necessary for black activism to make the federal government implement the ruling, and possibly help close the racial gap that existed in places other than public schools. During one of the boycotts for equality, a leader emerged that would never be forgotten. Dr. Martin Luther King, who was leader of the Montgomery bus boycott, quickly became the spokesperson for racial equality. He believed that the civil rights movement would have more success if the black people would use non violent tactics. Some say he was adopting the style of Ghandi. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, was formed by King and other activist in 1957. They were a group of black ministers and activist who agreed to try and possibly help others see the effects of a non violent movement. Also following the strategies set by the SCLC, a group known as the SNCC or the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, began a string of sit-in and campaigns as the black population continued it's fight for equality. It was the undying efforts of the two groups that paved the way for the march on Washington. This march which drew a crowd of at least 200,000, was the place that Dr. King, gave his famous "dream speech." Both the SNCC, and the SCLC were victims of lots of threats and attempted attacks, yet they continued to pursue freedom in a non violent fashion. However near the late 60's they had another problem on their hands. There was a group of activist known as the Black Panthers who were not so eager to adopt the non-violent rule. The believed that the civil rights movement pushed by Dr. King and is non-violent campaign, which was meant to give blacks the right to vote and eliminate segregation, was not solving problems faced in poor black communities. This Black Panther group, stabled the term "black power", which was used a sort of uplifting for the black self esteem.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. contacted Rosa Parks and asked her if she was serious about starting a civil rights movement. When she said yes, King organized a boycott on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. As a result, the bus company agreed to allow blacks to sit wherever they wanted to on their buses. This was the first step in a long process that eventually resulted in racial equality in the United States. In 1960, Stokley Carmichael organized Lunch Counter Sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
(3) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955): After the supreme court decided to end segregation, African Americans started to speak out more about their racial opinions. In Montgomery, Alabama, a bus boycott ended with a victory for the African Americans. The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama segregation laws were unconstitutional. During the boycott a young African American Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr. became well known. Throughout the long contest he advised African Americans to avoid violence no matter had badly provoked by whites. Rosa Parks tired of sitting in the back of the bus, and giving up her seat to white men. One weary day she refused to move from the front of the bus, and she became one of history's heroes in the Civil Rights Act movement.
Parks was immediately arrested, which sparked “…a yearlong bus boycott, [which was] the beginning of the mass phase of the civil rights movement in the South” (Foner 954). Her arrest resulted in the meeting of hundreds of blacks, all of which gathered in local churches, who called for a boycott. After “…381 days” (Foner 955) of blacks choosing to walk to their destinations rather than ride the bus, the boycott ended and in November of 1956, the Supreme Court called for the end of segregation on public transportation, deeming it as unconstitutional. During the Montgomery bus boycott, the Civil Rights Movement also witnesses the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the pastor soon became the face of the movement. King used Christian values and beliefs in his calls for action, stressing that no violence must be used. He quickly became an influential figure, for he “…presented the case for black rights in a vocabulary that merged the black experience with that of the nation” (Foner 956). He called for a Christian movement, which “…resonated deeply in both black communities and the broader culture” (Foner 956), and became an important leader of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s. Overall, the 1950s led to the growing momentum of the Civil Rights Movement in the due
When Martin Luther King, Jr. spearheaded the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, he began a long tenancy as the representative for nonviolent demonstration during the time of the Civil Rights Movement. As a Baptist minister, he was a moral leader to the community. He was one the Black community looked up to for encouragement and strength in a tie where they were oppressed and unequally treated. Dr. King was known for being approachable; compelling and being able to move a crowd with the powerful and provoking words he spoke. He had a vision of how he wanted the world to look when the racism and discrimination would be no longer and all the children of all different ethnicities and backgrounds could play openly and cohabitate peacefully together. Because of all the hard work and dedication he put into his community and the Civil rights...
In the Webster's online dictionary, self-confidence is defined as confidence in oneself and in one's powers and abilities. A famous quote by Jim Loehr says, "With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; Without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." Confidence in yourself does not come without effort. One must believe in themselves, and not let someone change their beliefs. In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane shows self-confidence throughout the novel, by possessing a sense of self-worth, dignity, and a trust in God.
Gandhi devoted himself for Satyagraha in order to decolonize India from British without violence. In his book Home Rule he says,” Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering, it is the reverse of resistance by arms. When I refuse to do a thing that is repugnant to my conscience, I use soul-force” (5). He deployed this concept in Indian Independence Movement. For him, Satyagraha has three essentials meaning: “Satyagraha is a weapon of the strong; it admits of no violence under any circumstance whatsoever; and it ever insists upon truth” (6). Also, he presented some rules for this “soul-force” to the individuals of India as a campaign to follow and to reach the independency. For instance, these are the rules that he wanted his people to obey without viole...