CIVIL RIGHTS

SLAVERY FIRST STARTED

• Around the 1600s, when Europeans and
• Africans were put into servitude.
• Around 1670, Europeans were freed,
• And Africans put into permanent slavery.

WHERE DID THIS HAPPEN

• It first occured in the southern part of
• America (not South America)
• Later on, it grew to most of America.

LET'S FAST FORWARD A FEW YEARS

THE BEGINNING OF THE END... OF SLAVERY

• "Slavery was not humane,
• And people did not deserve this"
• Is what some people thought at
• This time, and so there was argument

IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO THIS ERA, 1 OF 4

• Rosa Parks
• She stayed in her spot on the bus,
• When a white man wanted to sit down.
• This was a show of resistance, and
• Started the Bus Boycott for people who disagreed with these rules.

PEOPLE IMPORTANT TO THIS ERA, 2 OF 4

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• MLKjr. was an important figure,
• As in leading some of the Civil
• Rights movement.

PEOPLE IMPORTANT TO THIS ERA, PART 3 OF 4

• Booker T. Washington
• 1915 leader in African American community.
• Made a speach about black progress, and
• mobilized a coalition of middle-class blacks.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO THIS ERA, PART 4 OF 4

• Jim Crow (Yes, we know he's not real).
• Most of the discrimination in this time was
• Accosiated with Jim Crow laws.
• Discrimination is what lead to this new
• Civil 'Revolution'.

KEY EVENTS IN THIS ERA

• MKL jr's "I have a dream speech"
• This speech was monumental for the Civil Rights movement.
• The 14th Amendment gave rights to all, and was the 'end' of inequality.
• The Salma to Montegermy march lead by King
• This was important as rallying for the Civil Rights Movement.

RESOLUTION

• The Civil Rights Act
• Banned discrimination between race, religion,
• origin, and especially color.
• Yet sadly, discrimination still happens, but
• This helped quite a lot with it though.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO US

• To us, we think it's irrational
• For people to discriminate others because they're different
• But as soon as they are discriminated, they say it's
• "Rude" and "racist"

SOURCES

• “Earthlink.net.” EarthLink.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Jan. 2015.
• “Understandingrace.org.” understandingrace.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Jan. 2015.
• “Wikipedia.org.” Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2015.
• These sites helped us to get information on certain events, people, or time periods.