The story of Sonny by James Baldwin is set in Harlem an impoverished and oppressed city in the African neighborhood of New York during 1950. Sonny’s experience symbolizes a people, whose hands are tied, having limited possibilities in an unfrien...Sonny-by-James-Baldwin- …

Civil disobedience is nonviolent resistance manifested by an active, perceived refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government. It involves the symbolic violation of a particular law and not a rejection of an entire system. Ind...Martin-Luther-King-and-Socrates-on-Civil-Disobedience …

By the 1910’s, nearly half of the Jewish population from Europe and Russia had made the voyage to America in hopes of starting a new life. As the Jewish population grew, the native-born American’s distaste for them did as well. Shortly the Jew...Jews-in-America …