i have to write a paper about someone who stood up against some thing (ex. martin luther king jr.) and got recognized for it and i need help finding someone who i can do a lot of research on. it can be on anything, i mean they could of say no to anything! please exclude anything thats not appropriate for class.
2006-12-29 07:20:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
How about Mohandas Gandhi? He inspired Martin Luther King Jr. He created the philosophy of passive resistence and non-violent protest. There is lots of information about him available.
2006-12-29 07:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by Misty B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Thurgood
Marshall, and Rosa Parks
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2006-12-29 07:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by Littlebit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps one of the most noteworthy individuals in the recent many years was Mahatma Ghandi. He was a leader in India who had a HUGE impact on the nation, and on the entire world.
Abraham Lincoln stood against slavery and led the US into a new era.
William Wallace stood against the English and unified the Scots (he is the man in the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson)
2006-12-29 07:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosa Parks. She was a black woman back in the 1960s who stood up for equal rights for blacks riding the city bus.
Back then, no black people were allowed to ride in the front of the bus. They were made to sit in the back.
She got fed up with it and sat down near the front.
It lead to all black people being able to sit where ever they wanted on the bus. It created riots in the street, there in Alabama but it was worth it. A lot of good things came out of that one act, for blacks all over the country.
2006-12-29 07:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by Molly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about Martin Luther, the one who started the church not the black rights Jr.
2006-12-29 07:23:45 · answer #5 · answered by Latex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, and Harry Truman would all be good choices for your research and paper.
Good Luck.
Chow!!
2006-12-29 07:51:43 · answer #6 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harriet Tubman is a good one because she made the underground and stood up to the people who owned slaves by freeing all th slaves
2006-12-29 07:53:25 · answer #7 · answered by davidtidaback@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Samuel Adams - stood as a patriot with the call "no taxation without representation." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-29 07:25:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosa Parks...my son just did a paper on her. There is a lot of information: books, magazines, wiki etc
2006-12-29 07:24:00 · answer #9 · answered by keely_66 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋