The Atlantic Monthly; August 1963; Letter from a Birmingham Jail; The Negro Is Your Brother; Volume 212, No. 2; pages 78 – 88.

This article was a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter discusses the urgency to have a nonviolent protest. He stresses the many reasons as to how important having a nonviolent protest would be. This article is useful to my topic because Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the pioneers who helped contributed to black people having the same rights as white people.

 

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. “The Transatlantic Slave Trade.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/slav/hd_slav.htm (October 2003)

This essay discussed about the transatlantic slave trade. It was an exchange mainly between Africa, Europe, and America. As America was forming they needed more laborers. Europe was constantly conquering and needed slaves as well. Slaves were brought through the Atlantic ocean from Africa to Europe to America. Black people had no say as to what they wanted to do. They were treated like objects and properties instead of human beings. This essay is related to my topic because it discussed the struggles that black people went through.

 

X, Malcolm. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements  https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ShfNyQrAa-YC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=malcolm+x+and+racism&ots=BA-eMqObLI&sig=SvyLqzvGHAAfy1IBpWq_o-Afua8#v=onepage&q=malcolm%20x%20and%20racism&f=false

This book by Malcolm X discuss some of the important speeches that he wrote. He discusses the involvement that he will be in regarding human rights for black people. He also discusses the meaning of a revolution. This book is relevant to my topic because Malcolm X helped black people gain the freedom and help preserve through the struggle even though it was in a violent way.

 

Clayton, Dewey M. “Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Two Social Movements in the United States.” Journal of Black Studies 49.5 (2018): 448-80. Web.

This article depicts a comparison between the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960s, African Americans were fighting to have racial equality as white people. In today’s time, African Americans are now fighting from police brutality against white police officers. In both movements black people had to fight and are still fighting to get the justice that they deserve as human beings. This article relates to my topic in that it talks about the struggles that black people have gone through and are still going through.

 

Davis Y., Angela. Women, Race, & Class  https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=74QzFiv1w10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA30&dq=angela+davis+and+race&ots=HqEu78QMt0&sig=NOOdacGfAvIYXw89RgCC_Sac2vM#v=onepage&q=angela%20davis%20and%20race&f=false

This book discusses the Anti-Slavery movement and women. The anti-slavery movement is an abolishment society. Men who were free joined together to create this movement. White women eventually decided to join to show that they were more than just housewives. They wanted have rights just like black people. This is relevant to my topic because it discusses about African American hardships.