PRESENTATION OUTLINE
this man was a very important part of the civil rights movement. He led many of the rallies and nonviolent marches. He is one of the main figures of the civil rights movement sort of like Rosa Parks
He was a preacher at a church and a very strong man in his faith. He was arrested manny times and still was a preacher. He wasn't arrested for bad things; he was arrested for doing good things like peaceful protesting and whatnot
He was assassinated April 4, 1968. He was assassinated because he believed that all people should be treated equally and he felt this was important I bet that if he was here today he would say it was a cause that he would be glad to die for
Mr. King had a family like you and me. He had a wife named Coretta Scott King. He had four kids, Dexter King, Yolanda King, Martin Luther King the third, and Bernice King.
He gave his famous,"I have a dream." Speech on August 28, 1963 this is one of the things that he is mostly know for. He saw that he the whites where treating the blacks horribly and he knew that he had to change
Rosa Parks is "famous" for not giving up her set on a bus. She had worked hard at work that day and was tired. She got on the bus to go home and sat in the colored section of the bus. The white section was full ,but there was still room in the back of the bus, the colored section
The buss driver casually moved the colored sign farther back on the bus the only colored people that it effected where three African Americans and Rosa Parks the other three did what they where told and moved
Rosa stayed in her set and refused to move she was determined. After being asked nicely to move she was arrested she was arrested December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks started a boycott she and other African Americans didn't ride the bus for a long time.
Rosa Parks was "the jack of all triads" meaning that she did TONS of stuff. She was married to a man named Raymond Parks. The loved each other dearly. The thing that most people don't know is that Raymond was a white man.
She acted as a citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act. she was fired from her job as a seamstress in a local department store, and received death threats for years afterwards.
Ruby Bridges was on of the first six African Americans to attend a public school in 1960 New Orleans. She was very happy to go to school, however other people where not happy that she was attending an all white school
When Ruby when to school it wasn't exactly all peachy keen. She only brought food from home because of threats to poison her food. As of that wasn't enough the other kids in her class where pulled out, so for a year she was the one and only student in her class.
Because of the hard ship that she had she had weekly meetings with a psychiatrist who later wrote a book about her called ,"The Story Of Ruby Bridges"
To this day Ruby lives in New Orleans where she lived when she was a kid. In 2005 her home was destroyed by hurricane Katrina. Today Ruby is 60 years old
They where a group of nine African American high school students Who enrolled in Little Rock Central high school in 1957. Little rock nine wanted to allow Americans to be allowed to enroll in all white public schools
Still the group of students were still had a year of physical and verbal abuse being spat on and called names names by many of the white students. One of the students had acid thrown into her eyes
Elizabeth Eckford was one of the Little Rock nine high school students she did not get to ride the bus so she walked like she was a brave girl with an angry mob chasing after her
The NAACP's purpose was to ""to ensure that the political educational social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to aluminate racial hatred and racial discrimination"
Their headquarters is in Baltimore, Maryland. They formed their association on February 12, 1909 they stick up for colored people and make sure they are treated fairly
Malcolm X talked about how he felt about the blacks where being treated and things weren't easy for him he received several death threats and then one day he was assassinated
He was born May 19, 1925 Omaha, Nebraska and he died in New York City February 21, 1965
