Civil Rights Movement: The Role Of Transcendentalism In The 19th Century

In the late 1820s and the 1830s, a movement had been created in the eastern part of the United States. This movement was development for those who wanted to go against the original way of thinking. This philosophical idea was created by an essayist named Ralph Waldo Emerson. This writer believed that each individual could move beyond the physical world and gain a connection deeper in the spiritual level through each one’s own free will and intuition. Although this movement was created in the 19th century, it has been many different occasions where you can still see how transcendentalism was used throughout our history and how it is used today in modern day society. Transcendentalism has so many factors built inside of it. It involves the importance
Many times throughout our own life we forget what’s important or get stuck in traditional way of doing things, following in other’s paths which can sometimes tarnish our mindsets. We get trapped into doing what’s best for everyone else and conforming to things that mute our voices. One issue in particular that also goes along with the civil right movements, is the rights of LGBT. Being attracted to the same sex never really could conform into being a normal thing. Recently in history, we have all witness the legalization of gay marriage, which can also be an example of transcendentalism. In the 1900s, gay marriage and homosexuals in general were highly discriminated. As time went on and many different protest had to be put in place, same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015 by the Supreme Court. The idea of Transcendentalism was also incorporated in many popular books and literature texts of today. One in particular is the Hunger Games series. The whole idea of the book revolves the idea of being independent, the reliance of one’s self, connecting with nature on another level for the survival of the