Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was a pastor of the Dexter Avnue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. He was always a strong civil worker for his race.He was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at this time and the leading organization of its kind in the nation. Martin orginized the bus boycott in December 1955. This boycott lasted 382 days and during these days Martin was arrested, his home bombed, and was a subject to abuse but at the same time he emerged as a black leader of the first rank. On December 21 1956 after the Supreme Court of the US had declared unconstitutional laws requiring segregation on the buses. Black and white races rode the bus as EQUALS.

Nelson Mandela and Apertheid

Aperthied is the seperating of diffrent races. Nelson Mandela was the first balck president in South Africa. Black people were not allowed to vote and were also seperated in public businesses. 70% of the population were black but they had to live in a small area of the country and could not leave without a passport. Nelson, as a peaceful protest burned his passport. These very few people had and they were also hard to get.

Gandhis

The definiton of Civil Disobediance is the refusal to obey laws in order to force a government to change the laws.

He marched to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.

Craig Kielburger

The purpose of "Free The Children" is to make people not focus on themselves, but to help others who don't have freedom or the same rights we do. Some things that this organization does is helping get rid of sweatshops, or to help build schools and water towers for clean water.

The effect that Craig Kielburger has on my life would be big, this I think is were my heart is. I love children and it breaks my heart to know that they aren't treated right and have water disesed waters. And when im not thankful for the education I am getting I try to think of the schooling these children would do anything for. Or when i take advantage of the Health Care system when these children have no medical attention at all most times or don't have the slighest amount of money.

Tommy Douglas

Tommy Douglas is the "Greatest Canadian" because he thought it should be EVERYBODYS right to have the SAME privileges to have a doctor help you when in need so they didnt have to rely on the money they have or dont have in cases of emergency.

The effect he has on my life is HUGE. If he had not stood up and suggested such a thing as using tax money to pay for health care for EVERYBODY rich or poor. Everybody has the same priveleges and doesn't have to worry about if or when they get hurt, they can or can't pay the bill.

Nellie MucClung

The importance of Nellie McClung and the Persons Case in Canada is HUGE. If she hadnt taken the time and effort to make women equal "persons" just like men then women today might not have the rights they do today. So Nellie and four other women whent to Britan to prove that women were INDEED "people".

Nellie was an activist because she had a big heart for women and chirldrens rights. She diceided to DO SOMETHING about trying to make everybody equal.

My first Bolg

Ello!!!!!!!!!!