History
history
History
History
History
History

history 20th centuries protesters for good

South Africa

South Africa

Nelson Mandala

Nelson Mandala

He got rid of most of the color race signs and how only certain colors could go to certain places

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

He hated the signs that only allowed one color of people in areas

China

China

Students

Students

trying to improve the democratic freedom

it's marked now as the 89 democracy movement

United States

United States

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Was put in jail with other people because they were black

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

refused to get up off her seat on a bus for a white person

India

India

Gandhi

Gandhi

Helped in freedom rights for Indians

Was trying to get the British out India with non-violence

Helped with racism

he started the nationalist movement against the British rule of India what helped was he got people to break some of the laws with him and got people to do other things that was non-violence like when the men volunteered to march up to ask if they could go in but the soldiers keep hitting them with sticks.

A civil rights activist who refused to give her seat up to a white person on a segregated bus which then lead to her arrest because white still had more privileges than black.

December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/

In 1952 he was chosen as the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign with Maulvi Cachalia as his deputy. This campaign of civil disobedience against six unjust laws was a joint programme between the ANC and the South African Indian Congress. He and 19 others were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act for their part in the campaign and sentenced to nine months of hard labour, suspended for two years. https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography

One million Chinese youth had occupied the famous landmark to stage hunger strikes and call for an end to state corruption, greater transparency and increased civil liberties following the death of reform-minded party leader Hu Yaobang on 15 April.

Both tried to get rid of apartheid

Like his countryman Albert Lutuli, the Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu was honored with the Peace Prize for his opposition to South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. Tutu was saluted by the Nobel Committee for his clear views and his fearless stance, characteristics which had made him a unifying symbol for all African freedom fighters. Attention was once again directed at the nonviolent path to liberation. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1984/tutu/facts/