Activists - Mr. E's Forum: 2006-2007

Date: Apr 5, 2007

Activists

Date: Apr 10, 2007

1)william lloyd garrison- abolitionist
2)eugene v. debs- founded international labor union; industrail workersof the world
3) martin luther king jr.- black rights
4) dorothea dix- improvement of asylums, jails
5) betty ford- equal rights for women, legal abortion.
6) kkk- active against black rights, and other groups
7) helen keller- rights for the disabled, women, and birthcontrol
8) susan b anthony- womens rights
9) amelia bloomer- womens rights and temperance
10) angelina and sarah grimke- abolitionists and womens rights

Date: Apr 10, 2007

Samantha, no shortcuts. Provide more information concerning these people, ok?

Date: Apr 11, 2007

Prudence Crandall was an educator from the North who admitted an African American girl into her school that she founded in Connecticut in the 1820's. People who had once supported her now withdrew from her school. After this, she built a school made just for African American girls and was jailed in 1832. Mob violence forced her to close her school.

She sounds like a very brave woman and I think that's awesome how many people stood up for what they believed in. It makes me wanna go out there and fight for something. What? I don't know smile

Date: Apr 11, 2007

7) helen keller- rights for the disabled, women, and birthcontrol

being disabled herself, she of course would go on to try to help improve the lives of other disabled people by helping protect there rights. she was very outspoken about her causes.

Date: Apr 11, 2007

6) kkk- active against black rights, and other groups

not all acitvists were out to help people. the kkk used intimidation and terrorism to prevent equal rights. they stood up for their beliefs with violence and tried to keep civil rights from being awarded to groups they did not favor, such as blacks.

Date: Apr 11, 2007

It's amazing how Helen Keller went about her life with so much determination. How many other people have been found with the same disabilities she had? It must be a rare case?

Date: Apr 11, 2007

P.S. what ever caused her to be born with her disabilities in the first place?

Date: Apr 11, 2007

Nevermind, I found out that she wasn't born with the disabilities. At nineteen months of age, she was diagnosed with "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" which we now know could have been scarlet fever or meningitis. It ended up leaving her deaf and blind.

Date: Apr 11, 2007

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Date: Apr 12, 2007

Emmanuel Anquetil was a famous unionist. He organized strikes for workers rights. Manfred Bruns was a gay civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and political activist. He was also the most famous leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. Frances Lear was an activist, a magazine publisher, and a writer. Mathew Manjooran was a political activist for farmers.

Date: Apr 13, 2007

I don't know if I'd call the KKK activists .... but terrorists. I mean... yes they were activists in the way that they protested against African Americans and other ethnic groups in America.... However, they protested this by creating terror.

Date: Apr 13, 2007

Let's not forget. Go wayyyy back to when this probably all started. Colonial times, before the American revolution...around the 1600s. People like Anne Hutchinson, an unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church descussion group and a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Netherlands. She held bible meetings for women, and soon men joined, she went beyod scriptural study to her own philosophy. Because of all the controversy this caused, she was banished from her colony. She was very important in the study of the development of religious freedom in Britain's American colonies.

Date: Apr 13, 2007

i guess that ^^ would have been more accurate to post in the religious leaders thread. i guess i'll put it there and post someone else on here.

Date: Apr 14, 2007

s.bailey wrote:

7) helen keller- rights for the disabled, women, and birthcontrol

being disabled herself, she of course would go on to try to help improve the lives of other disabled people by helping protect there rights. she was very outspoken about her causes.

Helen Keller was a really amazing woman, don't you think? Blind and deaf and yet she still was able to do everything she did through her lifetime.

Date: Apr 15, 2007

Jarred wrote:

s.bailey wrote:

7) helen keller- rights for the disabled, women, and birthcontrol

being disabled herself, she of course would go on to try to help improve the lives of other disabled people by helping protect there rights. she was very outspoken about her causes.

Helen Keller was a really amazing woman, don't you think? Blind and deaf and yet she still was able to do everything she did through her lifetime.

yeah, i don't think many people would have overcome that she did. she ended up learning how to speak a few different languages, more than most people who can see and hear.

Date: Apr 15, 2007

kathryn wrote:

I don't know if I'd call the KKK activists .... but terrorists. I mean... yes they were activists in the way that they protested against African Americans and other ethnic groups in America.... However, they protested this by creating terror.

and some people found terror at the idea of blacks getting rights. looking at things from the "terrorists" point of view, they are being active and outspoken for thier beliefs and doing something about it. just because someone is being an activist about something something typically frowned upon people call them terrorists. look at muslim 'terrorists'. they are activists among thier people, crusdaers for morality. i don't agree with the kkk or militant islamics, but you cannot deny that they are activists.

Date: Apr 21, 2007

William Lloyd Garrison became associated with the American Colonization Society, an organization that believed free blacks should emigrate to a territory on the west coast of Africa. However, most members had no wish to free slaves; their goal was only to reduce the numbers of free blacks in the country and thus help preserve the institution of slavery. In 1832 he helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and, the following year, the American Anti-Slavery Society. These were the first organizations dedicated to promoting immediate emancipation.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

Date: Apr 26, 2007

s.bailey wrote:

Jarred wrote:

s.bailey wrote:

7) helen keller- rights for the disabled, women, and birthcontrol

being disabled herself, she of course would go on to try to help improve the lives of other disabled people by helping protect there rights. she was very outspoken about her causes.

Helen Keller was a really amazing woman, don't you think? Blind and deaf and yet she still was able to do everything she did through her lifetime.

yeah, i don't think many people would have overcome that she did. she ended up learning how to speak a few different languages, more than most people who can see and hear.

The really cool stuff about Helen Keller is now just the childhood blindness, but her adult life as an activist for peace, worker's rights, and international relations. That's where the real power in her life lies. The other stuff is just the beginning of her journey.

Date: Apr 26, 2007

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Date: Apr 30, 2007

You forgot about the Black Panthers, who were against the non-violence ways of Martin Luther King Jr. and decided it was time to take a stand. They stood for Black Power and an armed self-defense attitude.

Date: Apr 30, 2007

Who was the lady who helped Helen Keller learn to speak and read?

Date: Apr 30, 2007

Anne Sullivan helped Helen Keller to overcome her illness to the best of her ability.

Date: May 8, 2007

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Spiritual and political leader for India's independence from Britain through nonviolent protest.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
Philosopher and social essayist.
Her 1959 book, The Second Sex, had an important impact on 20th Century feminism.

Patsy Mink (1927-2002)
Feminist activist, first Asian-American woman as well as woman of color to be elected to Congress.

Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
First openly gay man elected to public office in U.S. (San Francisco City Council, 1977); assassinated in 1978

Date: May 8, 2007

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Date: May 9, 2007

thought it was amazing she could speak at all, helen keller also learned to speak in 6 different languages. i can hear and see and i doubt ill ever be able to speak that many languages.

Date: May 9, 2007

Margaret Sanger was an advocate for birth control. She established the American Birth control Leauge which today is known as planned parenthood.

Date: May 9, 2007

Marian Anderson is a singer and delegate to the U.N. She became a delegate by obtaining 23 honorary doctorates.

Prudence Crandall was a pioneer educator who was an advocator for the rights of blacks to be educated. In the 1920s, she admitted a black girl to a school in Connecticut where the white parents in turn withdrew their daughters. So she started a school for black girls only and was jailed for it in 1832. Abolitionists supported her, but mobs closed down her school.

Frances Harper was an advocator of womens rights and an abolitionist. She was the first black American to publish a book (Shadows Uplifted-1982). The book was about the Reconstructed South.

Date: May 9, 2007

elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony were founders of the national woman's suffrage association, formed on may 15, 1869.Stanton was its first President and Anthony was the first Vice President, until 1892 when she became President. The Association was active in acquiring the right to vote for women, this being the consistent focus of the organization's attention.

Date: May 9, 2007

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Date: May 10, 2007

Eugene V. Debs was a famous Socialist activist who advocated workers rights and supported unions. He ran for president three times, unsuccessfully(obviously), and during one of his presidential campaigns he was still in prison.

Date: May 10, 2007

Ida B. Wells was an African American activist who advocated for civil rights as well as women's rights. She is most known for her anti-lynching activism and she documented hundreds of lynchings. Also while on a train she refused to give up her seat to another person, 71 years before Rosa Parks and was dragged off the train by the conductor and two other men. She sued the railroad and won in the local court of Memphis, but the railroad appealed to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, which reversed the local courts ruling.

She first received publicity in the media because during her participation in women's suffrage parades, she refused to stand in the back because she was black. She created an anti-segregationist newspaper called Free Speech, but it was forced to leave Memphis, where it was created, because her articles were seen as too agitating.

Date: May 10, 2007

I like learning about alot of activists for example, Helen Keller, or Martin Luther King. Their stories are so amazing, it's literally mind-blowing the impact such strong intelligent individuals, as leaders, can have on an entire world ahead of them as well as the change of their time.

My dad tells me i drive like helen keller, which is unfortunate because of her disabilities, hes a jerk. ashamed

nonetheless, Keller was an incredible activist on her own. But, did you know she was actually cousins with Confederate General ROBERT E. LEE.

talk about cooinsedence. I've learned about both of the infamous historical figures in more ways than one, and never would have linked the two as relatives.

kelseyyy idea

Date: May 11, 2007

Martin Luther King Jr. - He was one of the main leaders of the American Civil rights movement. He was a polical activist, a Baptist minister. He was the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (he was rewared with the honor due to his work as a peacemaker, promotion of nonviolence and equal treatment for all races) Even though on April 4, 1968 he was assassinated in Memphis, TN he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. He was then esablished as a United States Holiday. Martin Luther King was an incredible man and did great things for this country that benefit us today.