Major Minorities - an E-Book by Leander Rotter

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Civil Rights Movement

Charles Ball was most well known for his slave narrative the 1837 book,&nbsp;The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball

The Civil Rights Movement&nbsp;was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal&nbsp;rights&nbsp;under the law in the United States.

Charles Ball wearing the uniform of the U.S. Navy's&nbsp;Chesapeake Bay Flotilla&nbsp;under the command of Commodore&nbsp;Joshua Barney&nbsp;in the&nbsp;War of 1812

The picture above shows an aerial view of the world-shaking March on Washington, which was led by well-known civil rights activists such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The latter also gave a world-famous speech there.

Martin Luther King (or "MLK", as he is often referred to), was a Baptist minister and an icon in the civil rights movement. Besides a lot of engagement in black rights politics, he led half a million people in a march on Washington. There he held a speech that made him famous to the world, his "I have a dream"- speech. It is about freedom, independence and peace between the people. Even though it is almost 60 years in the past from now, his speech is still frequently referred to and talked about in modern times. For that last part, I prepared a video:

born 1913 in Alabama, died 2005 in Michigan

She lived with her family and a teacher, though without her father since he left them. She married Raymond Parks, a barber, who was member of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People, at the age of 19. She worked as a secretary of the same organisation in 1943.

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Cover: https://www.thebrick.com/products/matt-leather-look-fabric-reclining-sofa-black Golden Image Frame: https://www.juniqe.com/marmor-poster-alu-frame-3176022.html#step=design&amp;productId=3176022&amp;frameId=352 Round Golden Frame: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/858217272733990485/ US population pie chart: https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/US-population-growth-slows-diversity-grows MLK Capitol: https://www.kindernetz.de/wissen/martin-luther-king-104.html MLK Talking: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tod-eines-buergerrechtlers.724.de.html?dram:article_id=99073 Slave triangle: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/triangular-trade/628657 Malcolm X ambiguous pose: https://www.stern.de/kultur/film/malcolm-x--netflix-doku-warf-fragen-auf---wird-der-fall-neu-aufgerollt--9131646.html Malcolm X portrait: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519439/

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Cultural divesity: what is it good for?

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international movement that has emerged within the African American community in the United States to combat violence against Black people and people of color. Black Lives Matter regularly organizes protests against the killing of Black people by police officers and on broader issues such as racial profiling, police violence, and racism.

- Cutlural exchange&nbsp; - Culinary diversity&nbsp; - Lingual diversity&nbsp; - people are becoming more open to the world&nbsp;

- Racism - Discrimination - Racial profiling - Bad cultural exchange due to missing contact between people of different origins

A woman marches to the White House at the head of a group of members and allies of the LGBTQ community as part of the Pride and Black Lives Matter movements on June 13, 2020, in Washington.

The chart above lists a couple of Pros and Contras of a multi-cultural society. The small size of it is not to be misunderstood, since there is a lot more content to the subject. This particular one above is just for illustrative purpose.

S. 1-2 Population&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;US in&nbsp;general Black&nbsp;History&nbsp; S. 3-4 Colonial&nbsp;Past&nbsp;&amp; Slave Trade&nbsp; S. 5 Aportrait : Charles Ball S. 6 Civil&nbsp;Rights Movement&nbsp; Revolutionists&nbsp; S. 9 A&nbsp;portrait : Rosa Parks&nbsp; S. 10 A&nbsp;portrait : Martin Luther King Jr.&nbsp; S. 11 A&nbsp;portrait : Malcolm X&nbsp; S. 12 Black Panther Movement&nbsp; Modern Icons&nbsp; S. 14 A&nbsp;portrait : Kamala Harris&nbsp; S. 15 Black&nbsp;Lives&nbsp;Matter&nbsp; Cultural Diversity

This book mainly relates to the parts of the subject matter discussed in class. However, minority diversity and the various resulting global situations encompass a much wider scope. If you are interested in more of this topic, I recommend the following books:

Ethnic minorities in China by &nbsp;Xiaowei Zang

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

The invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen

Examples of Modern Icons: todays representatives of Civil Rights

Occupation: Founder of the Me Too movement Location: Harlem, New York City Cause: Gender equity

Kamala Devi Harris, born October 20th, 1964, is a U.S. politician and the Vice President of the United States of America since January 20, 2021. She is a model for equality since her own mother came to the States from India at the age of 19.

Occupation: Founder of American Foundation for Equal Rights Location: Washington D.C. Cause: LGBTQ+ rights

This is the speech Vice President Harris held shortly after she had been officially elected. 

Fun Fact: She also did an episode in the YouTube-series "Sneaker Shopping", by the magazine "Complex". A series that I personally very much enjoy.

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born 1925 as Malcom Little in Omaha, NE died 1965 as El Hajj Malik sl-Shabazz in NYC by assassination

. . . was a socialist, revolutionary movement of "black nationalism" in the United States of America, founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

- black nationalist leader - ready to use violence in contrast to MLK - changed name to "X" to not show any assotiation with his "slave name" - assassinated in 1965

- founded after Malcolm X' assassination - Anticapitalist, Marxist, Antiimperialistic - Violent, Militant

An addition courtesy of Q. J. Raedlein III.

Cultural divesity: What needs to be changed?

... in order to deliver an answer to this question we created a radio broadcast.

New York streets: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/home/home.shtml Rosa parks mugshot: https://www.spiegel.de/consent-a-?targetUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fgeschichte%2Fbuergerrechtlerin-rosa-parks-a-951024.html&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F BPP member: https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/black-panthers-arte-tv-kritik-dokumenation-law-and-order-usa-donald-trump-richard-nixon-90075048.html BPP Armed mebers: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party Colonists: https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article122884261/Das-aelteste-Raetsel-der-USA-wird-entschluesselt.html Quadratic goldframe: https://www.istockphoto.com/de/vektor/quadratische-rahmen-mit-ornament-gold-und-schwarz-vektor-hintergrund-gm911018854-250868908 Kamala harris looking heroic: https://www.bpb.de/internationales/amerika/usa/315175/kurzportrait-kamala-harris Black fist: https://www.amazon.com/STICKERS-Black-Power-Raised-FIST/dp/B07L6699P4 Tarana Burke: https://www.paperepiphanies.com/blog/2018/4/11/woman-of-the-week-tarana-burke CHAD griffin: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/04/chad-griffin-jo-becker-and-marriage-equality.html?mid=google BLM protest: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/black-lives-matter-support-impact/index.html

Black History

America had its indigenous people, but most of its modern population comes from the colonists who settled the land since its discovery in 1492. Previously mentioned natives were oppressed and partly wiped out by the colonists in the following centuries. Today, only less than 0.2% of American citizens are descendants of the actual natives.

European colonists enslaving natives (circa 1587)

The slave trade was a simple business: valuable goods such as mirrors, guns and spirits were shipped from Europe to Africa. Once in Africa, these were exchanged for freshly captured slaves, who were then shipped to America to work mainly on plantations. Parts of the proceeds of this plantation work were then processed locally, or went back to Europe. This whole construct is called "the triangular trade".

Revolutionists of the black rights movement

- civil rights icon - born in 1913, Tuskegee, in Alabama - 1955: gets arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to a white man -&gt; becomes famous for it - Part of the march on Washington alongside Martin Luther King - died 2005, in Detroit, Michigan

- Baptist minister and civil rights leader - 1955: organises the Montgomery bus strike - 1963: leads half a million people in a march on Washington - 1968: assassinated.

- Black nationalist Führer - born Malcolm Little, in Nebraska 1925 - 1952: becomes a Muslim and changes name to X - 1960s: makes a series of militant speeches - 1965: assassinated

Population of the United States of America: an overview

A lot of people from outside of the USA do actually not know that most white people in the United States are descendants of colonists from Europe. Despite their big presence in US-population, there also is a large chunk of other ethnicities, as seen in the graph below :

This part of Inhabitants mostly consists of native Americans, or people that migrated to the country during the past centuries. Almost all black people for example are descendants of Africans, which were protracted and held captive as slaves.

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