Notion De Pouvoir - Anglias

The power is the source of political, social and personal integration and revealing the tensions and conflicts in America. Power is exercised through a set of relationships between people who are sometimes incurred or sometimes accepted, often internalized. The power also involves cons-powers, and it is here that the African Americans illustrate this aspect of the concept of power.

We can therefore ask where do the different forms of power become established and how have African-Americans achieved recognition through the different forms of power they faced?

First, we are going to see what forms of power have made that possible and in a second time we’re going to see the impact of this power.

On December the1st of 1955, in Montgomery (Alabama), Rosa Parks refuses to give his place to a white person in the bus. She was arrested and condemned to pay a $15 fine. The black population of the city started to boycott buses. They also marched for Rosa Park freedom and for their rights. After those demonstrations, the court judged that the segregation buses was unconstitutional. But restaurants, restrooms were still segregated. Therefore, nonviolent demonstrations and sittings (in restaurants for example) took place all over the country. Blacks wanted to make people aware of the situation and change the actual society. Unfortunately the police was pitiless. A lot of people were arrested and even children were victims of the police’s violence. All the American population was shocked by such a violence.

Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Gandhi, Martin Luther King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King. used the power of words. We all know his famous speech which took place in front of the Lincoln statue in 1963 at the centennial of the emancipation proclamation. It was an improvisation but it came out as a chorus. He used always the same pattern (as a chorus), anaphora’s and religious vocabulary. By using a sentence from the Declaration of Independence, he showed the confrontation between the reality and what was written in the constitution. His speech is now one of the most famous speech of all time. He also wrote a letter while he was imprisoned in response to a published statement calling his activities « unwise and untimely ». In this letter he uses family values and shows the injustice through his naïve daughter’s eyes in order to strike the reader.

The media coverage helped blacks in their fight for their rights. For example, the march for the centennial of the emancipation proclamation was broadcasted on TV. All the country could see people holding their hands and could see the brotherhood that linked them. Moreover, Martin Luther King’s speech was broadcasted on the radio. Celebrities were present like Bob Dylan, Joan Base and James Dean. It helped the black community to be supported by such well-known persons.

Thanks to demonstrations and sittings, the segregation ended. In 1964 was voted the civil right act and in 1965 was voted the voting right act. Blacks could finally have the same opportunities as whites and could do whatever they wanted. Blacks and whites are now in a complete equality. Moreover, in

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