MYTHS AND hereos What is a hero? A hero is someone who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a movie or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has done a heroic act or just our own personal hero, our role model. Among these heroes, I'll tell you about some people who represent the black American dream. Of these, a remarkable person, Rosa Parks A woman interviewed by sitting,. In December 1955, in the city of Montgomery Rosa Parks who was sitting on a chair reserved for white people, she refuses to obey the bus driver who ask to leave his place and go to the back of the bus. She was arrested, tried, and charged with public disorder and breach of local law with a fine of $ 15. A woman who is kept sitting She appealed against the judgment. A young black pastor unknown at the time of Martin Luther King, Throwsa campaign of protest and boycott against the bus company that lasted 381 days. In November 1956 the Supreme Court violate the segregationist laws in the bus anticonstitutionelles filers. Then it becomes a amblématique face of the struggle against racial segregation in the United States, which earned him the nickname "mother of the civil rights movement" His story begins with the case of Rosa Parks or it was placed by him under the spotlight as president of the Montgomery improvement Association.Capitalisant of its success, the Rev. King in 1957 founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC, Conference of Christian leaders from the South) - an association of activists pastors for civil rights. In the peaceful occupation (sit-in) restaurants, parks, pools closed to blacks succeed protest marches against racism. Gradually, the Supreme Court requires openness to all public places prohibited. August 28, 1963, King became the head of a march on Washington to urge Congress to pass the law on civil rights. Addressing more than 250 000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and millions of viewers, he delivered his famous speech I Have A Dream: "I have a dream that one day deep in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama the son of former slaves and the son of former slave owners will be able to live together as brothers. "His eloquence (or persuasion) upset many Americans. In response to this call, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which established in 1964 the end of segregation. in public places Unfortunately for Martin Luther King, his success did not last two threats were against him :. the black community has yet to acts of violence and the second threat was related to the Vietnam War. The third day of April nineteen Sixtus eight in his Well, I do not know what will happen now. We have tough days ahead of us. But I do not care what will happen to me now because I went to the top of the mountain. I do not care anymore. Like everyone else, I want to live long. Longevity has its price. But I do not care about me now. I just want the will of God be done. And that allowed me to reach the top of the mountain. I looked around me. And I've seen the Promised Land. It may be that I will not go with you. But I want you to know tonight, that our people will reach the Promised Land. I am pleased, tonight.I do not care anything. I fear no man. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. It was his last conversation the next day he was murdered. Martin Luther King was a leader of the peaceful struggle for the recognition of the rights of black people in the United Civil She prescribed. these people are hereos that helped change the world and of African-American life
