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“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.
Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.                 By:  Lynn Schusterman

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To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.                 By:  Lynn Schusterman

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This relates because of one person getting in legal trouble for not giving up their seat on a bus started a movement to stop segregation

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Rosa Parks' Early Life

Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. She moved with her parents, James and Leona McCauley, to Pine Level, Alabama, at age 2 to reside with Leona's parents. Her brother, Sylvester, was born in 1915, and shortly after that her parents separated.

Did you know? When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, it wasn't the first time she'd clashed with driver James Blake. Parks stepped onto his very crowded bus on a chilly day 12 years earlier, paid her fare at the front, then resisted the rule in place for Black people to disembark and re-enter through the back door. She stood her ground until Blake pulled her coat sleeve, enraged, to demand her cooperation. Parks left the bus rather than give in.

Rosa's mother was a teacher, and the family valued education. Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers' College for Negroes. She left at 16, early in 11th grade, because she needed to care for her dying grandmother and, shortly thereafter, her chronically ill mother. In 1932, at 19, she married Raymond Parks, a self-educated man 10 years her senior who worked as a barber and was a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP). He supported Rosa in her efforts to earn her high-school diploma, which she ultimately did the following year.

Rosa Parks: Roots of Activism

Raymond and Rosa, who worked as a seamstress, became respected members of Montgomery's large African American community. Co-existing with white people in a city governed by " Jim Crow " (segregation) laws, however, was fraught with daily frustrations: Black people could attend only certain (inferior) schools, could drink only from specified water fountains and could borrow books only from the "Black" library, among other restrictions.

Although Raymond had previously discouraged her out of fear for her safety, in December 1943, Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and became chapter secretary. She worked closely with chapter president Edgar Daniel (E.D.) Nixon. Nixon was a railroad porter known in the city as an advocate for Black people who wanted to register to vote, and also as president of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested

On Thursday, December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus. Black residents of Montgomery often avoided municipal buses if possible because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so demeaning. Nonetheless, 70 percent or more riders on a typical day were Black, and on this day Rosa Parks was one of them.

Segregation was written into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens, and the seats behind them for Black citizens. However, it was only by custom that bus drivers had the authority to ask a Black person to give up a seat for a white rider. There were contradictory Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or Black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available.

Nonetheless, at one point on the route, a white man had no seat because all the seats in the designated "white" section were taken. So the driver told the riders in the four seats of the first row of the "colored" section to stand, in effect adding another row to the "white" section. The three others obeyed. Parks did not.

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired," wrote Parks in her autobiography, "but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

Eventually, two police officers approached the stopped bus, assessed the situation and placed Parks in custody.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Although Parks used her one phone call to contact her husband, word of her arrest had spread quickly and E.D. Nixon was there when Parks was released on bail later that evening. Nixon had hoped for years to find a courageous Black person of unquestioned honesty and integrity to become the plaintiff in a case that might become the test of the validity of segregation laws. Sitting in Parks' home, Nixon convinced Parks-and her husband and mother-that Parks was that plaintiff. Another idea arose as well: The Black population of Montgomery would boycott the buses on the day of Parks' trial, Monday, December 5. By midnight, 35,000 flyers were being mimeographed to be sent home with Black schoolchildren, informing their parents of the planned boycott.

On December 5, Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, given a suspended sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. Meanwhile, Black participation in the boycott was much larger than even optimists in the community had anticipated. Nixon and some ministers decided to take advantage of the momentum, forming the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to manage the boycott, and they elected Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-new to Montgomery and just 26 years old-as the MIA's president.

As appeals and related lawsuits wended their way through the courts, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Montgomery Bus Boycott engendered anger in much of Montgomery's white population as well as some violence, and Nixon's and Dr. King's homes were bombed. The violence didn't deter the boycotters or their leaders, however, and the drama in Montgomery continued to gain attention from the national and international press.

On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional; the boycott ended December 20, a day after the Court's written order arrived in Montgomery. Parks-who had lost her job and experienced harassment all year-became known as "the mother of the civil rights movement."

Rosa Parks's Life After the Boycott

Facing continued harassment and threats in the wake of the boycott, Parks, along with her husband and mother, eventually decided to move to Detroit, where Parks' brother resided. Parks became an administrative aide in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. in 1965, a post she held until her 1988 retirement. Her husband, brother and mother all died of cancer between 1977 and 1979. In 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, to serve Detroit's youth.

In the years following her retirement, she traveled to lend her support to civil-rights events and causes and wrote an autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story. In 1999, Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. (Other recipients have included George Washington, Thomas Edison, Betty Ford and Mother Teresa.) When she died at age 92 on October 24, 2005, she became the first woman in the nation's history to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

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Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
This is a quote that agrees that you need to build something new to make a change or as stated build a new model

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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. "
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
This shows one of the greatest movement leader ending racism because he disagreed with racism

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This book is almost exactly related to this book by racism on how whites were favor in crimes like shootings and words of victims or witnesses of the races were not taken seriously. So a movement is started.

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How It Went Down has 4,729 ratings and 920 reviews. Jessica said: This book is a beautiful reminder of why I cherish getting older. I've personally att...

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This relates because school shootings are big problems in today's world and teenagers want to take charge and make a change that can save lives.

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#NeverAgain hits the road: In June, survivors of the Parkland school shooting embarked on a 60-day, 20-state bus tour designed to promote gun-control reform. Today, gun control is widely portrayed as a generational issue, with the youngest Americans leading the way. But this portrait isn't really accurate. Polls show that older people are just as supportive of gun-control measures as the young. #NeverAgain's leaders aren't so much representing their generation as they are the American public, with support among all age brackets for stricter gun laws now hitting record highs.

The February mass shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School reopened America's long-running debate on gun control. Nearly half a year later, the debate continues to rage on-a departure from the short-lived activism that followed previous mass shootings. At the heart of this longevity is the #NeverAgain movement, a series of staged protests, rallies, and media appearances launched by teenage Parkland survivors. The founders of this movement have been lauded ( and also attacked) for their role in the debate, with some calling them the " voice of a generation " determined to take action.

But is #NeverAgain-and the gun-control debate more broadly-truly a generational issue? The answer may not be what you expect.

Media coverage has portrayed the renewed gun-control debate as a movement led by students who grew up amid active shooter drills and lockdowns. The anecdotal evidence adds up: From the national school walkout to the March for Our Lives, teens have commanded the spotlight. Impassioned thinkpieces-like this Time cover story -cast the Parkland teens as leaders of a revolution.

This framing makes for a compelling story. But it's not true. Young people actually don't differ much from their parents and grandparents on the issue of gun control. Gallup data since 2015 indicate that on average, adults under 30 are only 1 percentage point more likely to support stricter gun laws than the national average of 57%. What's more, 13- to 17-year-olds are actually slightly less likely to support raising the minimum purchase age for assault-style rifles. It also bears mentioning that just 10% of March for Our Lives attendees were under 18 years old.

Quite simply, most Americans of all ages strongly favor the policies #NeverAgain is promoting, such as preventing people with mental illnesses from purchasing guns, mandating universal background checks, and creating a federal gun-sales database. This majority has been growing significantly in recent years: The share of Americans who want stricter gun laws (as measured by Gallup, Quinnipiac University, Morning Consult, and NPR/Ipsos) is at its highest level in 20 years.

Not only do attitudes toward guns not differ much by age, but actual gun ownership doesn't differ much either. Pew data show that 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds owned a gun in 2017, only slightly lower than the roughly 30% of older adults who owned one. This statistic is remarkable given that Millennials are less likely to be white and rural, and therefore less likely to participate in the gun-loving "field and stream" hunting culture. Millennials have also come of age in an era of declining crime rates, which suggests that fewer of them first sought a gun for self-protection.

Indeed, young people are by some measures less progressive about guns than their elders. According to the Pew Research Center and Gallup, young adults are least likely to support banning assault-style weapons or high-capacity magazines, and mostlikely to support concealed carry.

What's going on here? While Millennials may have less contact with guns through hunting and military service, they have a lot more contact with guns through video games. Millions of Millennials have forged their own distinct relationship with guns by way of game series like Call of Duty which teaches (virtual) gun literacy in encyclopedic detail. Many of these first-person shooters feature in-game weapons that are virtual carbon-copies of their real-life counterparts.

To be sure, the above polls questioned young adults, not the teens who launched the #NeverAgain movement.Support for gun control may be stronger among late-wave Millennials and early-wave Homelanders, who tend to be polled less due to parental consent requirements. Indeed, a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll of 13- to-24-year-olds finds that fear of gun violence is more pronounced among those under 18. Younger respondents are also more likely to support banning the mentally ill from owning firearms, installing metal detectors in schools, and banning semi-automatic weapons.

But if Millennials are largely in agreement with their elders on gun control, their style of youthful political activism is vastly different. The media gets it exactly 100% wrong by suggesting that Millennials diverge from Boomers when it comes to their views on gun control but resemble Boomers in their youth when it comes to their method of protest.

As we have seen, Millennials don't in fact differ much from older generations in their views. And as for their style, #NeverAgain's tone is earnest, not confrontational. The movement's pragmatic teen leaders urge their peers to use their civic power to vote NRA-backed officials out of office. Much of #NeverAgain's rhetoric is similarly unobjectionable. It argues that gun control is an issue of public safety and that children deserve protection. Boomers demanded fewer rules and an earlier entrance to adulthood (lower voting age); Millennials and Homelanders want more rules and a later entrance to adulthood (higher voting age and more age limits for gun ownership). The civil pragmatism of these teens has resulted in more firebrand adults issuing apologies to them than the other way around.

#NeverAgain isn't targeting the firearms industry itself. It is a plea for action to those in power from a generation of youth who believe in their right to protection. While the movement's legislative victories have so far been modest, its vision of a better world-safe, sensible, and cooperative-is one that has resonated so widely precisely because it's so easy to swallow. And depending upon what happens in the 2018 midterm elections and beyond, #NeverAgain may yet have some legs.

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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Takes Aim In The Gun Debate

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NeverAgain hits the road: In June, survivors of the Parkland school shooting embarked on a 60-day, 20-state bus tour designed to promote gun-control reform. Today, gun control is widely portrayed as a generational issue, with the youngest Americans leading the way. But this portrait isn't really accurate.

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This relates because this girl doesn't like people being homeless but just by saying something wont change anything so she started a movement to help the homeless herself .

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Hailey Ford is putting the "power" in power tools by building small homes for a big cause.

The 9-year-old from Bremerton, Washington, is creating individual shelters to distribute to homeless people in her community. After receiving a grant, Hailey plans to make 11 of the small homes for the town's permanent Tent City, which is expected to open later this year, KING 5 News reported.

"It just doesn't seem right that there are homeless people," Hailey told the news outlet. "I think everyone should have a place to live."

Currently, Hailey is halfway through the first home -- a 8 x 4 wooden structure that she's, building with some help from her mother and grandfather.

The 9-year-old was inspired to build this first shelter after meeting a homeless man, Edward, who lost his job at a local grocery store, according to KING 5 News. She and her mother bought the man a sandwich, but Hailey wanted to figure out a way to keep providing food to people in need. So she started a garden, Hailey's Harvest, which she used donate 128 pounds of produce in 2014, the group wrote on its Facebook page.

"I said sure, thinking it would last a week. It's been four years and she still delivers veggies to the homeless every week," her mom, Miranda, told nonprofit Together Rising, who helped fund Hailey's project.

The garden quickly grew beyond fruits and vegetables, and led to the shelters Hailey is working on now. To help fund the project, Miranda applied for a grant for Hailey from Together Rising, organized by the site Momastery.com. Hailey was then awarded a $3,000 grant and secured a 50 percent discount from her local Lowes store to help with the structures.

"We can't think of a better example than our Hailey -- she's proof that no person - or act of kindness -- is too small to change the world," Together Rising founder Glennon Doyle Melton said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post.

For 2015, Hailey hopes to grow 250 pounds of food, and distribute, 1,000 toiletries, 500 feminine hygiene products, 100 coats, and "as many sleeping shelters as she can find space for," according to Hailey's Harvest Facebook page.

The first completed shelter, however, will go to Edward.

"Siding and drywall will be going up soon," Miranda told The Huffington Post in an email. "[It] will be painted colors that Hailey and Edward have agreed on."

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9-Year-Old Builds Small Shelters For Local Homeless People

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Hailey Ford is putting the "power" in power tools by building small homes for a big cause. The 9-year-old from Bremerton, Washington, is creating individual shelters to distribute to homeless people in her community. After receiving a grant, Hailey plans to make 11 of the small homes for the town's permanent Tent City, which is expected to open later this year, KING 5 News reported.

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The Theme of The Hate U Give, in my opinion is that sometimes there is injustices and it wont always be solved so you have to find a way to make a difference and change the outcome of things in other ways. In this case its starting a movement against racism.