Civil Rights - Period 2 by Justin Miles

Bus Boycotts - Matthew L.

99037469 — 2017-01-23 17:01:13 UTC

Boycotts occurred when African Americans wanted to take a seat on the bus, but can't because of their skin color. Instead they are forced to sit in the back of the bus. If there is no room then problems rise. Usually they argued against the bus driver, so this forces the bus driver to either kick them off the bus or call the police. Rosa Parks made a big difference when she refused to stand on the bus for a white skinned lady. This act of bravery is an example to all African Americans, and especially since she got the attention of Martin Luther King. He then started to give these great speeches that Black skins are being treated unfairly. So from then on bus boycotts were a sign of protest and a way of showing that all humans on earth should be treated equal.

Ku Klux Klan - Brandon N.

99036736 — 2017-01-23 17:02:21 UTC

The Ku Klux Klan or KKK is a U.S. based terrorist group founded 1865.
The Klan's main ceremony is the burning of the cross in which they set fire to a large cross and watch it burn to portray anti-Catholicism.
The club rose and fell several times throughout it's history at one point reaching over one million members .
The KKK believes in ideas such as white supremacy, anti Catholicism, and anti immigration.
The KKK had fallen apart in recent years but because of the Civil Rights movement becoming a growing force in America the KKK had a new reason to live.
In the 1960s white Civil Rights workers began to join blacks in their fight for equality. This caused growth in KKK membership.
Klan members at this time began to go on the attack. They torched freedom rider buses, beat marchers with bats and clubs, burned down homes of Civil Right leaders, and bombed religious quarters.
In Mississippi White Knights or the members considered most violent killed three Civil Rights workers with the help of county sheriff officers who helped trap the workers.
The KKK was sued several times for their violent actions in the rebellion of the Civil Rights movement and had to file bankruptcy in the 1990s.
Still today the KKK continues their beliefs of white supremacy, anti Catholicism, and anti immigration.
The Ku Klux Klan carried out dozens of bombings using dynamite as a weapon of terror.
The FBI carried out secret operations against the Klan and thanks to them and Congress, many members were imprisoned.
The Klans' power was broken but many of the fears and hatred stayed alive.

Rosa Parks- Justin M.

99036736 — 2017-01-23 17:03:34 UTC

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskgee, AL.
As a kid the Ku Klux Klan was always a threat making it hard to sleep at night hearing the KKK's horses hooves.
Rosa Parks married a man named Raymond Parks.
In 1943 Rosa Parks went to a NAACP meeting at took a bus. The NAACP is a foundation based on creating equal rights for everyone.On the bus she had to pay up front, leave, then take the back door to enter because she was black.
As an African American she was not able to vote even though she was fully capable of doing so
On December 1, 1955 a white man by the name of James F. Blake asked for a seat because the bus was full, Rosa Parks refused getting her arrested.
Refusing to leave influenced other black people to act out against racist laws. This created the bus boycotts. This is a protest against segregation by not riding city buses In Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks moved to Detriot with her husband and mom. There she had won the most prestigious award in the NAACP, the Martin Luther King Jr award.

Nelson Mandela - Gracie S.

99037521 — 2017-01-23 17:05:07 UTC

Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918 in the South African village of Mvezo.
Was adopted when he was nine years old by Jongintaba Dalindyebo after his father died.
After his guardian arranged a marriage for him, Mandela went to Johannesburg.
Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1944 and the same year he married Evelyn Ntoko Mase and they had four chrildren before their divorce in 1957.
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison after illegally going to a meeting with the African nationalist leaders in Ethiopia.
On February 11, 1990, Mandela was released and then became the South African president in 1994
After getting a divorce with his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Mandela married Graça Machel and retired from politics.
Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95 of a lung infection on December 5, 2013

Bloody Sunday - Vivien B.

99036382 — 2017-01-23 17:07:01 UTC

Bloody Sunday was on March 7, 1965.
It started out with 600 marchers singing freedom song as they crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
John Lewis was at the head of the line of 600 marchers; when reaching the highest point on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, John Lewis describes the the other side as "a sea of blue." He says this because of all the uniformed state troopers.
Canisters of tear gas were being throw into the crowd mobs while the officers applied their tear gas masks. These canisters spewed a yellow fog across the bridge.
The horses knocked people off the bridge, into the riverbank while other riders were clubbing fleeing marchers and many got skull fractures.
These marchers demanded an end to discrimination in voter registration. But because they spoke out both men and women, including children, were beat with sticks, clubs and objects wrapped in barbed wire.
These marchers were attacked by state and local police.
Bloody Sunday later became national news when television channels across the entire U.S.A. displayed images and facts about the event.

Civil Rights - Gracie S.

99037521 — 2017-01-25 20:11:36 UTC

Civil Rights is the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. They were established in the 13th and 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and is especially applied to a certain minority group

Segregation Poem - Vivien B. & Matthew L.

99037469 — 2017-01-25 20:46:56 UTC

Calls of Humanity

Denial to live a full and free life,
Segregation on creed, colo black or white,
How much tolerance must have been,
A call for human dignity and end of strife,

As came the South African apartheid,
A blot on developing intellectual breed,
Women and children could not escape abuse,
Human rights were not getting any heed,

No jobs, no food, such was the plight,
Even most educated had a pitiable fight,
Imprisoned without trial in unsanitary conditions,
Most horrible was the inhumane sight,

Mandela took a lifetime struggle to rescue,
All false allegations were taken true,
Then first election of universal suffrage,
How the time turned, had a least clue,

Defiance campaign with nonviolent resistance, task undertaken with strong persistence,
Pursued racial equality and other human rights,
dilemma of democracy was coexistence !!
By: Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Bibliography - Vivien B.

99036736 — 2017-01-25 21:40:30 UTC

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George Wallace - Vivien B.

99036382 — 2017-01-26 03:58:52 UTC

George Wallace was born in Clio, Alabama on August 25, 1919. He attended law school and military service.
He had a career as a judge and local politician. He served four terms as Alabama governor and ran unsuccessfully for presidency three times.
In 1946, Wallace became an assistant to the state attorney general, the next year he was elected to the Alabama State Legislature and in 1953 he was elected judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama.
He was nicknamed " The Fighting Little Judge" in reference to his boxing days when he won two Golden Gloves state titles. His full name is George Corley Wallace Jr.
Wallace served in World War 2, attended Barbour County High School and later was enrolled at Alabama University Law School.
George articulated the white backlash in the southern states during the 1960s and failed to halt the integration in the South. Although many people thought he was against black people and for segregation, he tried to assure many later on that he was not a racist at heart.
All three times that he ran for U.S. presidency, he ran in the Democratic party
Wallace led a "stand in the schoolhouse door" in 1963 to prevent two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood. He was trying to stop them from enrolling to the University of Alabama. The national guard then intervened and he continued to oppose integration throughout his terms as a judge.
He died in Montgomery, Alabama on September 13, 1998 at the age of 79 due to heart failure.

Civil Rights in Today's World - Justin M.

99036382 — 2017-01-27 04:06:49 UTC

1) Even though all Americans share equal rights today, racism is still a problem.
2) Gay rights is still an issue. With all of the shootings and trying to fit in, gay people are struggling to be one with society.
3) Women in America are striving to be equal with men. The majority of the population still believing men are the superior race.

With all the stereotypes and racist slurs, we can relate to the 50s and 60s because black people are still assumed to be different because of the color of their skin. Not only is it blacks today but Mexicans and Asians. The only good side is that we are now able to use the same restrooms as each other, sit on whatever seat on the bus we want, and are able to conversation with each other while it being socially correct. Gay marriage is respected in only a few states. Women are often critisized for not "playing their roles" as being a housewife and not being able to be as manly as men.

The March On Washington - Brandon N.

99037363 — 2017-01-27 04:34:47 UTC

A March on Washington was proclaimed twice in American history both times to dramatize the right of black Americans to political and economic equality
The first march was going to take place in 1941 due to blacks benefiting less from new deal programs during the Great Depression, and racial discrimination making blacks unable to be in the field of defense jobs.
When Roosevelt took little consideration to take action to this problem a March on Washington was called with fifty thousand people to show up.
Roosevelt passed an executive order in June 1941 that diminished discrimination of the defense contractors and made a committee that would investigate racial discrimination charges.
This employed two million plus African Americans so the March on Washington was canceled.
The second March on Washington took place on august 28th 1963 and two hundred fifty thousand people gathered at the nations capitol Washington D.C.
The March took place to stand up for political and social injustice for African American people
The March was supposedly taken place at just the right time as tension and racial unrest or agitation in a group of people was building up throughout the year.
U.S. marshals were placed throughout the crowd to insure order but the attendants of the march choose peace instead of violence.
The march featured the very famous Martin Luther King, Jr's speech I Have A Dream
King wasn't even supposed to speak at all that day, but no one else wanted to say there speech last therefore making the spot empty and open. Martin Luther King, Jr decided that he would speak because of this.
He wasn't even going to talk about his dreams until Mahalia Jackson screamed "Martin tell them about the dream." He decided to follow up with her request and told the audience about his dreams.
Historians believe that the Martin Luther King, Jr's speech I Have a Dream and the march on Washington were important catalysts to passing the civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965.

Protesters for Black Rights

99037363 — 2017-01-27 17:56:09 UTC

KKK Cross Burning Ceremony

99037363 — 2017-01-27 18:00:03 UTC

March On Washington 1963

99037363 — 2017-01-27 18:03:20 UTC

Segregation Poem Reasons- Matthew L.

99037469 — 2017-01-27 19:16:13 UTC

The reason why I thought this poem is for segregation is because it completely sums up the cruelty that is the whites treatment to the blacks. It was unfair the way they judged a man without even talking to them. It was horrible the treatment they got. For example they were not able to purchase food/goods or services. Most people called them offensive names and treated them like property. I feel like this poem described the inequality between races. So this poem was a perfect fit to this topic.

99036382 — 2017-01-27 19:16:23 UTC

The Civil Rights workers killed by KKK members

99037363 — 2017-01-27 19:26:07 UTC