SOAPS: "Pawn in Their Game" Per. 1 by Randi Metsch-Ampel https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp AP Lang. & Comp. en-us 2019-11-05 16:17:21 UTC 2019-11-11 13:47:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Byron de la Beckwith https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409439109 -murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Hid in the bushes across the street from Evers' house and shot him in the back with a sniper.
-part of the Klu Klux Klan and a white supremacist
-segregationist
-had three separate trials on murder charges--> his juries were all white and couldn't reach a conclusion on the Evers murder until 1994 for his crime in 1963
-charged for murder and received a life sentence. died in prison in 2001
-joined the marines during WWII and received the Purple Heart
-Nina, Declan, Eric, Lily]]> 2019-11-11 13:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409439109 1963 March on Washington (Isabella, Bryce, Andrew, Bella) https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440132 Took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963
March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom is the real name 
Was led by the “big six” civil rights leaders
-James Farmer (CORE)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC)
-John Lewis (SNCC)
 -A. Philip Randolph (BSCP)
-Roy Wilkins (NAACP)
-Whitney Young, Jr. (NUL)
“I Have a Dream Speech” takes place at March
Largest public protest to that point in the history of the US
Led to the passing of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964

]]> 2019-11-11 13:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440132 Medgar Evers (Yejin, Arshnoor, Colette) https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440418
  • American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state’s field secretary for the NAACP, and a WWII veteran 
  • enlisted in the army at 17 
  • His time in the army influenced his view of racial justice and led him to begin fighting against it
  • Assigned to investigation of Emmett Till’s murder 
  • He and his family received death threats, intimidation because of his work
  • Assassinated on June 12, 1963 by a white supremacist hours after Kennedy’s address to the civil rights movement; while returning home from an NAACP meeting
    • Mass protests after his assassination 
  • recruited new members of NAACP, championed school integration, encouraged blacks to vote, staged protests against racial inequality in the South

    • ]]>     2019-11-11 13:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440418     Bob Dylan (Andrei, Puja, Emma, Ana) https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440829 - Folk rock singer-songwriter of the Civil Rights Movement 
    - In Dylan’s song, "Only a Pawn in Their Game," scrutinize the era’s white elites, suggesting they enraged poor whites against blacks in order to divert their social and political position  
    -Career took off once he signed with Columbia Records in 1962, started a relationship with Joan Baez in 1963, and released his first album "Bob Dylan"
    -Inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988
    -A born again christian - produced three albums to reflect his religious experience such as “Slow Train Coming” - in an attempt to get back his ex-wife
    -Winner of 10 grammy awards, one Golden Globe, and one Academy award
    -Born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941 
    -Went to University of Minnesota
    -Dropped out of college to pursue music and meet an idol of his who was hospitalized
    -influenced by Hank Williams, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf 
    -He wrote "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
    -Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
    -Sold more than 100 million records


    ]]>     2019-11-11 13:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409440829     Bob Dylan (Alex, Amelia, Kaira) https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409441541 -Rock singer, important in the march on Washington
    -Won the Presidential medal of freedom

    ]]>     2019-11-11 13:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409441541     Bob Dylan https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409442021
  • born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth Minnesota(is currently 75 years old)
  • Dylan is called the Shakespeare of his generation because his songs are similar to the structure of poems
  • Bob Dylan started of playing folk songs, and then he started playing different types of rock
  • some of his songs became anthems for the black rights movement 
    • especially for the Black Nationalists 
    • especially his album named Highway 61 Revisited. 
    • Black Nationalists particularly liked the song “Ballad of a Thin Man,”



    • ]]>     2019-11-11 13:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409442021     Events Leading Up To March on Washington https://padlet.com/metschampelr/v9yynqoqpyjp/wish/409443718 -called the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom 
    -led by six leaders from different organization
    -in response to Jim Crow laws and discrimination 
    -in response to lynching
    -in response to segregation 


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