Cohort 85 by Jacqueline Soltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt Unit 1, Study 1 Anticipation Board en-us 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC 2017-03-15 10:27:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Inquiry 7: What was Black Power? Define the movement, identify its time period, identify its key activists, and explain its goals. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982598 The black power movement started in 1966 and is still going on today. it was a social and political movement whose people believe in equality for all people of African and black descent.  ( didn't get to finish)

]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982598 Inquiry 6: What was the Civil Rights Movement? Define the Β movement, identify its time period, identify its key activists, and explain its goals.Β  jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982599 The Civil Rights movement was a movement in which several activist made multiple non violent protests against discrimination. This movement lasted from 1955 to 1968. Some of the key activists who made non-violent protests were Martin Luther King junior, Andrew Goodman, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X. These activists helped fight for equal rights through protests such as the Montgomery bus boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Birmingham and the march on Washington, the Selma to Montgomery march, and the "I have a dream speech". These were all acts made for equality rights and the key activists were the leaders were crucial to the protests and helped America have the equal rights we have now with people of color today.

Kenneth:]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982599 Inquiry 4: What is feminism? Define the movement, identify the time period it started in, identify its key activists, and explain its goals. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982600 Feminism is the advocacy of women's right on the ground for political, social, and economic equality to men. Women's equal rights advocates like Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller and Kate Millett emerged and became the faces and voices for a generation. The ERA short for the equal rights amendment states "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." 3 years after women had the right to vote.This started in the 1960s through the 1970s. 

]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982600 Inquiry 3: What is Black Lives Matter? Define the movement, identify the time period it started in, identify its key activists, and explain its goals. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982601 Black Lives Matter is a chapter-based national organization originating in the African American  working for the validity of Black Life. It was created in 2012 by three African American sisters. Their names are Alicia Garza, Opal Tometti, and Patrisse Cullors. It was created because of the tragic death of beloved son Trayvon martin and 18 year old Mike Brown.Its about freedom equal rights for all races and police brutality.  


comment: 😲i never knew that black lives matter was made by 3 sisters in 2012]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982601 Inquiry 2: Who are 3 of the most important activists in history and what did they fight for (type: "most important activists in history" into Google)? Name each activist, define his/her time period, explain what they fought for, and identify their accomplishments. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982603
Martin Luther King Jr. is a activist because he was an American baptist minister. Martin Luther King was the leader of the African-American civil rights movement. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, the USA Congress called her the first lady of civil rights and mother of the freedom movement. Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist for female education. 

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]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982603 Inquiry 1: What is activism? Research and define the term, introduce the activist in this video, explain what he fought for, and explain what makes him an activist. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982604 Activism is the policy or action of using vigerous campaigning to bring about political or social change. The activist in this video is Boniface Mwangi. Mwangi fought for the people's rights like how they were raped, killed, etc for no reason. What makes him an activist is that he quit his job because he was tired of taking pictures of the horrible things he saw, and decided to fight for those people who had to go through that.

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]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982604 Inquiry 5: What is the LGBTQ movement? Define the movement, identify the time period it started in, identify major events associated with it, and where those events took place. jsoltz https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982605 LGBTQ is a gay and transgender rights movement. It started in June 27, 1969. There were many major events surrounding the movement, such as the Stonewall Riot, the founding of The Daughters Of Bilitis, which is the first lesbian rights organization in the US, and the legalization of gay marriage in Illinois. The legalization of Illinois, was of course set in Illinois, and the Stonewall riot was in Greenwich Village, New York. The founding of The Daughters of Bilitis was in San Francisco, California.




We thought this was really interesting because gay and lesbian marriage has been illegal for a long time.]]> 2016-09-11 20:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoltz/y9yu2felixkt/wish/122982605