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Martin Luther King Jr. frequently looked up inspiration from Biblical sources, ancient philosophers and theologians.
In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", Martin Luther King Jr. resort to Socrates to highlight his practice of a fair form of civil disobedience and non violence, as a symbol or analogy to back up his interjection outlining the urge of awakening from the "dark depths of prejudice and racism" of society at that time.
In the letter, MLK Jr. outlines that "Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind", so individuals could rise from darkness; and he felt the same kind of tension was necessary at that time so that society could rise from the darkness of prejudice to a place of "understanding and brotherhood".
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D) Its racist account of the role of African-Americans in the post-Civil War South
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In the Birth of a Nation, African Americans were racistly depcited as aggresive, brute, and the Ku Kux Klan was shown as a good force that tried to protect white people, and especially, white women, from black men.
This racist depictions made the film very polemic, so much that there are film historians who have argued that the Birth of a Nation is the most polemic film in the history of the United States.
African Americans around the country protested the film's exhibition, especially in Boston, and many other progressively-minded people did the same. These efforts were fruitless, probably because the First Amendment protects freedom of speech to a great extent.
However, these efforts did inspire D.W. Griffith to make another film years later, called "Intolerance".
The British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies inadvertently contributed to the American Revolution. This was because during the period of salutary neglect, when the British government wasn't enforcing its laws in the colonies, the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves
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Voting act in 1965.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in the year 1965. Main aim of this Act to remove legal barriers present at the state and local levels which prevented the African Americans from the right to vote which was guaranteed in the 15th Amendment of United States Constitution. Due to this Act, 9 southern states had more than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote.
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Women should be treated equally
Explanation:
And it bothers me that there are people who doesn't treat women equally