What Is America's Gift To My Generation
America’s gift to my generation is freedom. Mohandas Gandhi brought independence to India. He was later an inspiration for movements of nonviolence, civil rights, and freedom across the world. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, and died in 1948. The 39th president Jimmy Carter and his wife built The Carter Center in Atlanta. It’s a “fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.” Martin Luther King Jr. advanced civil rights by using nonviolent civil disobedience. He led the first African-American nonviolent demonstration with the bus boycott in 1955. King was born in 1929 and died in 1968 because he was assassinated.
Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. The United States Congress called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement.” Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama and died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. Some other people who fought for human rights were Roger Williams, Richard Allen, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Sitting Bull who was also known as Tatanka-iyotanka, Dalip Singh Saund, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and Rev. Mineo Katagiri. Jesus also died on the cross for us to have freedom. Abraham Lincoln fought for people to be equal and have equal rights. Harriet Tubman fought for the rights of African Americans and black women. Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s equal rights. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and said: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those are just a few people who fought for America’s freedom.
Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. The United States Congress called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement.” Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama and died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. Some other people who fought for human rights were Roger Williams, Richard Allen, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Sitting Bull who was also known as Tatanka-iyotanka, Dalip Singh Saund, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and Rev. Mineo Katagiri. Jesus also died on the cross for us to have freedom. Abraham Lincoln fought for people to be equal and have equal rights. Harriet Tubman fought for the rights of African Americans and black women. Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s equal rights. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and said: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those are just a few people who fought for America’s freedom.