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1. The Modern Day Civil Rights Movement is said to start with the desegregation of schools. Based on your community, do you think schools are desegregated?
2. If no, why do you think they are still segregated even though there is a law banning segregation?
3. What did Brown v. Board solve?

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Our Documents - Transcript of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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OurDocuments.gov. Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.

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https://aaregistry.org/story/the-clinton-12-desegregate-tennessee-schools/
1. The Clinton 12 were the first students to desegregate in the south. How do you think they felt walking into the school?
2. Do you think the Clinton 12 had an effect on later desegregation efforts?
3. Do you think school desegregation started the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement or do you think it started earlier?

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https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=2
1. If Lewis stated that he stopped still, why do you think this protest turned into Bloody Sunday?
2. Do you think the police were in the wrong for what they did to the protestors?
3. Can you think of similar events occurring recently?

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https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/2/23/a-brief-history-of-fair-housing-law-and-its-applications-today?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1rnH-o-X4wIVnISzCh2XmwLWEAAYASAAEgKTOfD_BwE
1. The fair housing act was not passed until over four years later. What effect do you think marches like these had on that decision?
2. Is there fair housing today for everyone in America?
3. What does fair housing mean to you?

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1.  Do you think prison conditions are better today or are people still fighting for this?
2. What connections did you make while reading her speech?
3. Do you know anyone in prison who has described their experience in a similar way?

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Angela Y. Davis | Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium

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Public speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.

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https://guides.canadacollege.edu/africanamericanprimary/BlackLivesMatter
1. Are members of the Black Lives Matter movement fighting for the same rights as the original Civil Rights Movement protestors?
2. How has the rise of technology influenced this new wave of Civil Rights activists?
3. Is technology helping or hurting the movement?

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1. Can you think of similar cases where inmates were harmed or killed because of prison guard's actions?
2. Reading the letters that George Jackson wrote to his family, were you able to connect to his experience?
3. Can you relate the experiences detailed in these letters to other Civil Rights events?

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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

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I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down on August 7, 1970, at the Marin County Courthouse, when he tried to gain the release of the Soledad Brothers by taking hostages.

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1. What are the effects of having a successful black, female talk show host?
2. Do you consider this a form of resistance?
3. Have you, or people in your family, looked up to Oprah?

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Oprah began her broadcasting career at WVOL radio in Nashville while still in high school. At the age of 19, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV. She then relocated to Baltimore's WJZ-TV to co-anchor the "Six O'Clock News" and later went on to become co-host of its local talk show, People Are Talking.

In 1984, Oprah moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago, which became the number one local talk show-surpassing ratings for Donahue-just one month after she began. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. It entered national syndication in 1986, becoming the highest-rated talk show in television history. In 1988, she established Harpo Studios, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) to own her own studio.

Produced by Oprah's Harpo Studios, The Oprah Winfrey Show entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers for 25 years. The show reached more than 40 million viewers a week in the United States as the top-rated talk show and was licensed to 150 countries internationally.

In 2008, Oprah and Discovery Communications announced plans to create OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, the first and only network named for, and inspired by, a single iconic leader. Oprah's heart and creative instincts inform the brand-and the magnetism of the channel. Oprah provides leadership in programming and attracts superstar talent to join her in primetime, building a global community of like-minded viewers and leading that community to connect on social media and beyond. OWN is a joint venture between Harpo, Inc. and Discovery Communications. The network debuted on January 1, 2011 and is available in 85 million homes. The venture also includes the award-winning digital platform Oprah.com. Effective July 2011, Oprah assumed the positions of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer for the network.

Oprah's Lifeclass is a true multi-platform experience with million of students from over 200 countries around the world engaging with Oprah on-air, online and via social media. In the popular series, Oprah and handpicked experts interact with fans worldwide in inspiring conversations about principles that guide our lives. The series, which is also live streamed at Oprah.com and Facebook, features a digital classroom with course work to accompany episode themes.

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Oprah began her broadcasting career at WVOL radio in Nashville while still in high school. At the age of 19, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV.

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1. The Black Entertainment Network was founded and eventually made Robert L. Johnson the first black billionaire. What significance do you think this had?
2. What forms of pushback, if any, do you think there were to this?
3. Do you think this led to the achievement of other black films, shows, and actors/actresses?

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Robert L. Johnson is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the BET channel and as the country’s first African-American billionaire.

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1. This case was the tipping point that lead towards the Black Lives Matter movement. What do you think made this case different?
2. What role do you think the media played in this case?
3. How did the language from the police department make you feel as you read the letter?

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1. Do you notice any similarities between this case and George Jackson's?
2. What do you think Angela Davis would have done in response to this case?
3. Can you write a short Davis inspired speech to speak to the injustice of this case?

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Kalief Browder, the young man who was held for years in a New York jail without a trial, killed himself on Saturday.

Browder was the subject of a profile in The New Yorker. He was 16 years old when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack. Because his family was unable to raise his $10,000 bail, Browder languished at Rikers Island for three years awaiting trial.

The teen said he endured beatings by officers and other inmates. He tried to commit suicide and spent more than 400 days in solitary confinement.

Eventually, in 2013, his case was dismissed. The publicity surrounding his case led to a plan to try to curb the violence at Rikers. But as Browder told the New Yorker, he emerged from the ordeal broken.

"People tell me because I have this case against the city I'm all right," he told the magazine. "But I'm not all right. I'm messed up. I know that I might see some money from this case, but that's not going to help me mentally. I'm mentally scarred right now. That's how I feel. Because there are certain things that changed about me and they might not go back."

The Los Angeles Times spoke to Browder's lawyer on Sunday. Paul V. Prestia said that all those years in jail took an unbearable toll on Browder.

The Times reports:

" 'I think what caused the suicide was his incarceration and those hundreds and hundreds of nights in solitary confinement, where there were mice crawling up his sheets in that little cell,' Prestia said in a phone interview Sunday evening. 'Being starved, and not being taken to the shower for two weeks at a time ... those were direct contributing factors. ... That was the pain and sadness that he had to deal with every day, and I think it was too much for him.'

"Prestia then became emotional, his voice wavering as he recalled Browder, whom he said hadn't had mental health problems before he was arrested and jailed in 2010.

" 'He was a good friend of mine - I wasn't just his attorney, you know?' Prestia went silent for a few seconds, then continued: 'He was a really good kid.' "

Jennifer Gonnerman, who reported the New Yorker profile of Browder, visited the family this weekend.

Browder's mother told Gonnerman that she spoke to her son Friday night.

He told her: "Ma, I can't take it anymore." His mother reminded him that he had people in his corner.

Gonnerman reports:

"[On Saturday afteroon], at about 12:15 P.M., he went into another bedroom, pulled out the air conditioner, and pushed himself out through the hole in the wall, feet first, with a cord wrapped around his neck. His mother was the only other person home at the time. After she heard a loud thumping noise upstairs, she went upstairs to investigate, but couldn't figure out what had happened. It wasn't until she went outside to the backyard and looked up that she realized that her youngest child had hanged himself.

"That evening, in a room packed with family members, Prestia said, 'This case is bigger than Michael Brown!' In that case, in which a police officer shot Brown, an unarmed teen-ager, in Ferguson, Missouri, Prestia recalled that there were conflicting stories about exactly what happened. And the incident took, he said, 'one minute in time.' In the case of Kalief Browder, he said, 'When you go over the three years that he spent [in jail] and all the horrific details he endured, it's unbelievable that this could happen to a teen-ager in New York City. He didn't get tortured in some prison camp in another country. It was right here!' "

Browder was 22 years old.

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Kalief Browder, Jailed For Years Without Trial, Kills Himself

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Kalief Browder, the young man who was held for years in a New York jail without a trial, killed himself on Saturday. Browder was the subject of a profile in The New Yorker. He was 16 years old when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack.

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1. What have you heard about Colin Kaepernick?
2. Compare and contrast the methods used by Colin Kaepernick to those of Civil Rights protestors in the 1960's.
3. Compare and contrast what Kaepernick and previous protestors were fighting for.

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How National Anthem protests took Colin Kaepernick from star QB to unemployment to a bold Nike ad

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Colin Kaepernick has become larger than football since he refused to stand two years ago as the National Anthem played before NFL games.