BLACK POWER! The new American president neoelezione the light of U.S. President Barack Obama, starting for use phrases that emphasize the importance of this event. One of these is this:
Mrs. Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King Dr Could walk ...
Dr Martin Luther King I Walked Rev Jesse Jackson Could march ...
Rev Jesse Jackson marched so Barack Obama Could Run ... Barack Obama HAS RUN
know Our Children Can Fly!
summarizing the steps that led to the ultimate elimination of racial discrimination against blacks in the United States of America, at least on paper.
On 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, Rosa Parks Louis (1913-2005) refused to obey the order of
that the bus driver James Blake ordered to leave your seat and move to the back of the bus to make room for whites, Rosa was tired of being treated like second-class citizen and stayed in place. For this he was arrested and imprisoned for improper conduct and for violating city rules. That night, fifty leaders of the African-American community, led by then-unknown Martin Luther King met to decide what action to take to respond to the incident. The next day began a boycott of public transportation in Montgomery, protest that lasted 381 days, dozens of buses were stopped for months until he was removed from the law that legalized segregation. These events gave start to many other protests in many parts of the country. King himself wrote the incident, describing it as "
individual expression of an infinite longing for human dignity and freedom "
She sat in that place in the name of the abuses accumulated day by day and the boundless aspirations of future generations " . In 1956, the case of Mrs. Parks came to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, which ruled unconstitutional segregation on public buses. Since then, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement.
The August 28, 1963 while driving for work and freedom in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the Reverend Martin Luther King (1929-1968) repeatedly uttered those famous words "I Have a Dream" which implied the (agonizing) expected that he cultivated, along with many other people, so that every man would be recognized like any other, with the same rights and the same prerogatives, the very years in which - in the words of Bob Dylan - the times were changing and only the wind could bring an answer. Martin although it was often subject to beatings and serious offenses, nonviolent promoted many other battles: for the right to vote to blacks in Alabama, for education and equal pay, against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King paid for his work with the passionate life: was killed by a white supremacist in Memphis, Tennessee, with winds of gunshot wounds, 4 April 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel just shortly before going to a meeting in a local church where he had planned a cult.
In 1984, Jesse Jackson (1941) became the second African-American (after Shirley Chisholm) to organize a national campaign to become U.S. president, running for the Democrats. The primary base of the party was a success, he obtained 21% of the popular vote, but only 8% of the delegates and for this reason it was chosen as a candidate for president, the nomination went to Walter Frederick Mondale. Four years later, in 1988, Jackson offers to again as a candidate in the primaries for the Democratic Party. This time, having regard to its popular success was considered a strong and credible candidate with more money and better organization, collected more than twice as popular votes than four years ago, winning 11 primaries in several states of the union, outperforming the other candidates for both the popular vote and number of delegates. Another strong candidate was Democrat Michael Dukakis, who managed to win the states most populous and most white voters. For this reason Dukakis became the Democratic candidate in the elections of 1988 and Jackson returned to work on civil rights.
Barack Houssein Obama II (1961), in the November 4 U.S. elections, resulted in a number of "electors" and would be designated as president-elect of the United States. Officially take office as the 44th President of the United States January 20, 2009, after the oath. It 'the first black president in American history.
The journey was accomplished.