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In 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, anti-segregation demonstrators lay on the sidewalk to protect themselves from high-pressure water hoses used by firemen against the protesters. This document discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, including his organization of nonviolent protests and marches against racial segregation and discrimination, culminating in his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington. King was assassinated in 1968 while supporting striking workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American pastor who led the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He fought for racial equality through nonviolent protests and civil disobedience, inspired by Gandhi. In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by King that lasted 385 days and ended racial segregation on buses. King delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a US federal holiday that marks his birthday each January.
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Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over 382 days, 17,000 black residents walked or carpooled to work in protest of bus segregation laws. This first large-scale nonviolent demonstration led to the Supreme Court declaring bus segregation unlawful in 1956. Dr. King went on to lead the Civil Rights movement and its goal of nonviolent protest until his assassination in 1968.
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The document summarizes key events and movements in the civil rights struggle in the United States, including the Montgomery bus boycott led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., student sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters, Freedom Riders who challenged segregation on interstate buses, the Birmingham campaign's protests that brought national attention to the violence against civil rights activists, Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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- The document traces the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1909 to 1964, highlighting key events, organizations, figures, and legislation.
- It describes early leaders and approaches, from Booker T. Washington advocating accommodation to W.E.B. Du Bois co-founding the NAACP to emphasize legal challenges to discrimination.
- Pivotal events that advanced civil rights included Executive Order 9981 on desegregating the military, the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Montgomery bus boycott sparked by Rosa Parks, and sit-ins starting in Greensboro.
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Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over 382 days, 17,000 black residents walked or carpooled to work in protest of bus segregation laws. This first large-scale nonviolent demonstration led to the Supreme Court declaring bus segregation unlawful in 1956. Dr. King went on to lead the Civil Rights movement and its goal of nonviolent protest until his assassination in 1968.
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- The document traces the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1909 to 1964, highlighting key events, organizations, figures, and legislation.
- It describes early leaders and approaches, from Booker T. Washington advocating accommodation to W.E.B. Du Bois co-founding the NAACP to emphasize legal challenges to discrimination.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of over 200,000 people in Washington D.C. He argues that (1) while emancipation gave hope for freedom, African Americans are still not truly free and continue to suffer injustice, and they have come to protest this. (2) It is time for change, the need is urgent, and they will continue the fight for justice peacefully until it is achieved. (3) Basic logic dictates that the laws of a nation founded on high principles of liberty and justice should reflect those principles for all people, yet African Americans still suffer under laws that fall short, so their wrongs must be made right.
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Black History Month is observed each February to honor the history and achievements of African Americans. It was proposed in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson as "Negro History Week", later expanded to a month. The second week of February was chosen to commemorate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Black History Month highlights influential figures like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., inventors Elijah McCoy and Garrett Morgan, scientists Daniel Hale Williams and Mae Jemison, and athletes Jesse Owens and Hank Aaron.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the American civil rights movement. He was born in Atlanta in 1929 and became a pastor while earning his doctorate. He rose to prominence leading the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955-1956 and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. King gained national attention for his nonviolent protests and "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington. He continued to lead the civil rights movement and oppose the Vietnam War until his assassination in 1968.
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PresentacióN Human Values
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He received several degrees including a PhD from Boston University. In the 1950s, he led the Montgomery bus boycott and gained national prominence for his leadership in the civil rights movement. In 1963, he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. He continued advocating for civil rights and opposing the Vietnam War until his assassination in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
PresentacióN Human Values
This presentations is about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr mainly and there are picture of people who wanted and have wanted to make a big change.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He advocated for racial integration and nonviolent protest, organizing the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee where he was supporting a sanitation workers' strike. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered today as one of the most influential leaders for civil rights and social justice in the United States.
Martin Luther king Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s known for his leadership of the American civil rights movement using nonviolent civil disobedience. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, serving as its first president. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for combating racial inequality through peaceful protests and is remembered today as one of the greatest leaders for civil rights and racial equality in American history.
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The document outlines key events and figures in the American civil rights movement from the end of the Civil War and abolition of slavery in 1865 to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It mentions the establishment of Jim Crow laws in 1881 enforcing racial segregation, the founding of the NAACP in 1909 to advocate for African American rights, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and pivotal events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 and the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. It also discusses civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers who was assassinated in 1963 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream
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Martin Luther King Jr was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who played a key role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent protest. He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and led many major civil rights campaigns, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington. Inspired by Gandhi's success with nonviolence, King advanced this philosophy and spoke out against racial inequalities and injustice. He was assassinated in 1968, though his legacy lives on through the civil rights laws that were passed after his death.
The Civil Rights Era, Part 28. Public School Desegregation in th.docx
The Civil Rights Era, Part 2
8. Public School Desegregation in the South after 1954
After Brown v. Board, many public schools in the southern states rolled out an array of measures designed to resist the ruling.
Some schools created extra layers of administrative delays designed to stop implementation of the ruling.
Other schools suddenly transferred public property to newly created, all-white private academies.
A group of southern states--Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia--resurrected pre-Civil War era laws and passed state resolutions declaring their right to interpose their authority between the people and the US government.
The president of the United States, a Republican named Dwight D. Eisenhower, did not make any public endorsement or comment about the court’s ruling.
But this soon changed when the governor of Arkansas publicly declared that he would oppose the Supreme Court’s ruling about school desegregation.
In September of 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor of the state decided to impede the desegregation order by ordering the National Guard to block the entrance of 9 African American high school students to the local high school.
After several weeks of this tense standoff, President Eisenhower sent 1000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne, an elite unit of Army paratroopers, to enforce the desegregation ruling in Little Rock.
Although Eisenhower had remained silent on the ruling earlier, he now defended his actions by delivering a televised address to the nation saying that federal authority had to be enforced over state authority.
Many historians have commented that events in Little Rock in 1957 had a Cold War context too.
This was because during the tense standoff Eisenhower also stated publicly that the “enemies” of America, by which he meant the Soviet Union, were “gloating” over the situation in Little Rock because it was an example of inequalities in our system.
President Eisenhower was the first American president to use armed troops to support African American Civil Rights since Reconstruction after the Civil War.
9. Martin Luther King Jr. and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
In 1956 one year before the standoff at Little Rock, Martin Luther King Jr. had entered the national spotlight after he organized a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that had lasted 381 days.
King, who was a Baptist pastor, and several other leaders of the African American community in Montgomery had mobilized African American residents to boycott the city bus lines after Rosa Parks (who was a secretary for the local chapter of the NAACP) was arrested and fined after refusing to surrender her seat on a city bus to white patrons.
After the 381-day boycott, the bus lines in Montgomery had agreed to desegregate passenger buses.
Martin Luther King Jr. was from Atlanta, Georgia and his dad had been the leader of a large Baptist congregation in the city with ties to the middle class.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent civil rights leader born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia who fought against racial segregation and injustice. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. King was assassinated in 1968 while supporting a sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee, sparking riots across the country.
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The document summarizes the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the post-Civil War era through the 1960s. It describes how African Americans faced legalized discrimination and disenfranchisement after the Civil War despite the Emancipation Proclamation. The civil rights movement used strategies like nonviolent protest, boycotts, and legal challenges to dismantle Jim Crow laws and advance legislation protecting voting rights and banning discrimination. Figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and organizations like the SCLC and SNCC played pivotal roles in the movement during the 1950s-1960s.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s who advocated for racial equality and desegregation through nonviolent protest. He was born in Atlanta in 1929 and became a Baptist minister. In 1955, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and rose to national prominence as a civil rights activist. King went on to organize numerous protests and campaigns against racial discrimination, including the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. Sadly, he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 at the age of 39. Today he is remembered as an iconic figure who advocated for equal rights and justice.
Hogan's History- Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement worked to end segregation and racial discrimination against African Americans. Key events and organizations included Plessy v. Ferguson allowing "separate but equal" facilities, the NAACP fighting for equality, Brown v. Board of Education ending school segregation, the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. leading nonviolent protests including the March on Washington where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Despite facing violent opposition, the movement achieved landmark civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Martin Luther King Day is an annual day in the United States and a federal ho...
Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. It is celebrated on the third Monday of January each year to honor King's life and achievements in the American civil rights movement and his advocacy for racial equality. The holiday is a day of service where many volunteer in their communities. It also serves to promote King's vision of equal rights for all Americans regardless of background.
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American pastor and leader in the Civil Rights Movement known for advancing civil rights through nonviolent protest based on Christian beliefs. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leading many protests against segregation. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and continued his advocacy against racial inequality and poverty until his assassination in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He remains an iconic figure honored with many memorials and a national holiday for his leadership and promotion of equal rights.
the history of the civil right movement in America .
The document outlines the history of civil rights in America, beginning with slavery in the 1600s and the abolition movement in the 1830s. It then discusses the Civil War, emancipation, and the 14th Amendment in the 1860s. The document continues to cover Jim Crow laws, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s led by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and concludes with the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement seeking racial justice and equality.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who led the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. King advocated for nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to fight racial discrimination. He led many protests and marches, including the March on Washington in 1963 where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting a sanitation workers' strike. He fought for equality and brought national attention to the civil rights movement through peaceful protests.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta in 1929. He was a prominent leader in the American civil rights movement and fought for racial equality and desegregation non-violently. In 1955, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted 385 days to protest segregation on buses. He delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 calling for racial equality. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work fighting racism through non-violent protest. He was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 while supporting a strike by black sanitation workers.
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Intro mlk
- 2. Alabama, 1963. In Birmingham, anti-segregation demonstrators lie on the sidewalk to protect themselves from firemen with high PRESSURE water hoses. One disgusted fireman said later, "We're supposed to fight fires, not people."
- 3. seg·re·ga·tion/ˌsegriˌgāSHən/ Definitions: Segregation = The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Anti-segregation Movement = a movement against the segregation of black people in the USA. Also known as the Civil Rights Movement.
- 4. Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of the principal leader of the civil rights movement in the United States and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.
- 6. In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery's black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Heading the year-long bus-boycott against segregation in buses, King soon became a national figure.
- 8. In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. King and other SCLC leaders encouraged the use of nonviolent marches, demonstrations, and boycotts to protest discrimination.
- 10. King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The speech and the march created the political momentum that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. As a result of King's effective leadership, he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.
- 12. Read the text of the “I Have a Dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King as you listen to it. Link: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ mlkihaveadream.htm
- 14. Throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned the focus of his activism to the redistribution of the nation's economic wealth to overcome entrenched black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking black garbage workers. King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
- 16. Video of MLK: http://www.biography.com/people/martin- luther-king-jr-9365086