The document discusses the Civil Rights Movement from 1955-1968 and its impact on literature. It provides background on the movement's goals of ending racial discrimination and gaining African American voting rights through nonviolent protest. Key figures of the movement highlighted include Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., known for his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. The document encourages drafting your own version of an "I Have a Dream" speech to continue the movement's impact today.

1. Wednesday
1/23/2013
1. Civil Rights
Movement’s impact
on literature
2. Who is Martin Luther
King Jr.?
3. “I Have a Dream”
4. Your “I Have a
Dream”

2. Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
• Social movement
• Aimed at ending
racial
discrimination
• African American
suffrage
• Nonviolent acts of
protest

3. Celebrities of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
“Mother of the
Civil Rights Movement” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Baptist priest, activist, and leader in
the Civil Rights Movement

4. Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

5. Jazz/Blues
“I Wish I Knew” (How
it would feel to be
free)
Nina Simone

7. The Impact of the
Literature Today

9. Your Very Own
“I Have a Dream”

10. Your Very Own
“I Have a Dream”