Evans photos are haunting and iconic in how they show children living in poverty, and how these photos go along with the writing to show how families were grateful simply to have their children make it through their first year of life (Agee p.194). ... In the long term FDR's deal aimed to fix the South by helping all the citizens in the nation, but many southerners refused to change their ways. ...
If one could name two of the most important and iconic African American activist they would probably name Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. ... Although both of them would collide when it came to their ideologies, and suggestions on what the African American communities should do to overcome the tyranny of oppression that came about from the racial resentment in America and an unjust system; they both aimed for the same ambitions: Racial integration, equality, and building a sustainable, and accepting society were future generations of African Americans can live in peace without discrimination...
It is a book about power, and how he aims to quell the idea that power has to be gained from violence. ... But it wasn't just King's ideas which made him such a prominent spokesperson of his time, it was also his style of leadership, his undying religious faith and his incredible courage right up to his assassination which all made him the icon for racial equality for which he is known today. ...
