Monday, February 24, 2014

Civil Rights

Research Civil Rights leaders. Name one Civil Rights leader and describe how he/she changed society. Respond to two classmates.

54 comments:

  1. Victoria Woodhull she was an advocate for free love, by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce.

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  2. Marcus Garvey moved African American people to get treated the same was as white people he thought moving them to Africa would be less painful for them.

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  3. Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership and led the March on Washington, D.C., that had been planned for May 1968

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  4. Martin Luther king jr. Change the world by give the African Americans freedom in the united states

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    1. Why did he want freedom for the African American

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    2. How long did it take him to succeed

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    3. What did he do to get himself recognize ?

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  5. Abraham Lincoln- When he was president he was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, which is the highest-ranking military officer.

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  6. Cesar Chavez
    He was a Latino American civil right activist. Also he promoted the American labor movement.

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  7. Frederick Douglass was a peaceful abolitionist. He gave lectures and wrote books to convince others to help him fight against slavery. He even met with Abraham Lincoln in the White House.

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  8. Civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy (born 1926) was the best friend and trusted assistant of Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he succeeded as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a nonviolent civil rights

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  9. "The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1955 and 1968, particularly in the South."

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  10. James Luther Bevel was a leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership

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  11. Dred Scott also went to court to fight for his rights. He was a slave who sued for his freedom. He lost his battle in lower courts, so he took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. You will be surprised to find out what happened next!

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  12. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Civil rights activist
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

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  13. Martian Luther king JR.became leader of the civil rights made him extraordinary

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  14. Many Mc Lead Bethune
    John Brown
    Linda Brown
    Ruby Bridges
    Fredrick Douglass
    Medlar Evers

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  15. Ralph David Abernathy was born 1926, he was Martin Luther king Jr's assistant.

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  16. Marcus Garvey moved African American people to get treated the same was as white people he thought moving them to Africa would be less painful for them....

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  17. Marvel Cooke (1903–2000) - American journalist, writer, trade unionist

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  18. Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. (born Louis Eugene Wolcott; May 11, 1933, and formerly known as Louis X) is the leader of the syncretic and mainly African-American religious movement the Nation of Islam

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  19. Rosa Parks showed courage by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus because she wanted to show that African Americans where humans also.
    Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer who fought to end segregation he had 30 civil rights cases and won 29 of them.

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  20. Martin Luther jr king showed how White and black should be but soon to be he died getting shot by a white cop

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  21. "King wrote this moving letter on April 16, 1963, while in prison for defying a state court order against demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama. He was responding to white clergy who had published a statement in the Birmingham News, criticizing King and other civil rights activists for their impatience. Pursue desegregation in the courts, the white clergymen urged, but do not hold these "demonstrations [that] are unwise and untimely.""-http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/civilrightsstruggle1/tp/Major-Civil-Rights-Speeches-And-Writings.htm

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  22. Charles Evers (1922–) - American civil rights movement activist

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  23. Frederick Douglass was a peaceful abolitionist. He gave lectures and wrote books to convince other people to help end slavery.

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