Famous figures against Prejudice and Discrimination

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Famous figures against Prejudice and Discrimination

        Although different in lifestyle and culture, each of the four individuals shares the same belief.

Langston Hughes

        Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighbourhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humour, and spirituality.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807. He became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He was rooted in American life and history, which charged his imagination with untried themes and made him ambitious for success.

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Martin Luther King

        Martin Luther King was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a Baptist minister, his mother was a schoolteacher. He studied at Morehouse College in 1944 and then went to Crozer Religious Seminary to undertake postgraduate study, receiving his doctorate in 1955.

        Returning to the South to become pastor of a Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, King first achieved national renown when he helped mobilise the black boycott of the Montgomery bus system in 1955. This was organised after Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on the ...

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