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For my Unit 2 proposal, i would like to work on the numerous civil rights leaders during the civil rights movement and their impact on American Society. Growing up, i always looked up to figures such as Malcolm X or Huey Newton for the way that they advocated for Human Rights, Not just for Black Americans but for all people. Learning about Afrofuturism and is impact on America helped me decide to choose this topic, because in the same way we explored how Black Panther played a big role in representation for Black America, leaders such as Malcolm X were representations of Black America, and its struggles. Representation exist not only in entertainment but in social justice as well.

I also personally hope one day, to follow in the foot steps of some of the leaders that i mentioned before. I want to have such a impact as the impact that they had, and id like to strive to create a better world for my community. Its important that we have people to represent all types of communities and all types of backgrounds. Everyone has a different story, and different issues that need to be addressed, and as time goes on even after the icons such as Malcolm or Huey, their still is a need for people like them to be represented because the same problems such as civil rights are still a problem today.

Research Terms

Malcolm X

The Black Panther Party

Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Movement

Ten Point Program

Sources

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement

https://www.aaihs.org/the-antiracist-philosophy-of-malcolm-x/

Sarah Arzberger

For my unit 2 essay, I would like to write about Music in the American Civil Rights Movement. I love music and its a really big part of who I am. So any time I can pick a topic about music I get really excited. Its really hard to just pick one artist or just one song so I would like to focus on three artist. The artist I’m picking are well known artist that I would hope to believe people will reginigze when they hear there name but just like me didn’t know they wrote music for the Civil Rights Movement. My three artist are Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, and Stevie Wonder.

For more information I’m gonna watch Sound Track for a Revolution. A 2009 documentary made about music for the American Civil Rights Movement .

https://time.com/5369587/aretha-franklin-civil-rights/

https://www.dw.com/en/stevie-wonder-musician-and-civil-rights-activist/g-53415304#:~:text=Wonder%20has%20long%20supported%20the,could%20oppose%20such%20an%20idea.

When traveling to Hungary, one of the few things one may notice upon arrival, besides the strange language and the pothole filled roads, are these rather densely placed billboards with usually blue backgrounds and white text causing the locals to either roll their eyes as hard as humanely possible or vehemently shake their heads in agreement.

The government started its aggressive propaganda projects in 2015, when a significant mass of migrants from the Middle East fled to Europe. Although most migrants only wanted to go through the country, heading towards Germany or Sweden, Hungary shut down its services and remained hostile about the idea of accepting migrants into the country, or the European Union for that matter.

This led to building fences at Hungary’s borders and several manipulative billboard projects issued by the government to win the support of the country’s citizens. For example, the above billboard appeared after the European Parliament passed an action plan for the integration of already present immigrants in the EU. It does not talk about bringing more immigrants to the members of the union, yet the Hungarian government managed to turn it into its main weapon for its vendetta to awaken hate towards the European Union among Hungarian citizens. “Soros” refers to a Hungarian-Jewish businessman, György Soros who got himself involved in EU politics when the migration crisis started and who greatly supported the action plan, thus becoming the face of the enemy. The several propaganda billboard projects built just around the topic of migration thus left Hungary in a heightened anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic environment, which is still greatly present.

In my Unit 2 essay I would explore the billboard projects that have taken place in the country since 2015, examine their influences on the public’s opinions, showcase the responses of the opposing parties, while also touching on the history and effects of propaganda posters and billboards in different political eras in Hungary (mainly those between 1933 and 1999).