Presentation about racism and the different situations that has happened in the U.S. about this topic.

1. Race and poverty in the
US
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2. Civil rights movement

3. Civil rights movement
• The civil rights movement started
in 1955 when the murder of black
people was common in the south
of the States and also it wasn’t
punished. And finished in 1968
with Martin Luther King’s dead.
• The Civil rights movement contain
every idea to obtain the equality of
rights in the US.

4. Civil rights movement
• Emmet’s Till murder was
the beginning of this
movement, he was a
teenager from Chicago that
was
visiting
Money,
Mississippi. That crime
wasn’t forget because of its
age, and the reason of the
murder.
Emmet Till before its murder

5. Civil rights movement
• It’s supposed that Emmet was
murdered because he whistled to a
white woman in a shop.
• In the burial, his mother decided to
let the coffin opened to show the
assistants what the murderers did
him. The assassins weren’t
condemned because of that crime.
Emmet Till after its murder

6. Civil rights movement
• In this year also happened the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, in
Montgomery, Alabama.
• What happened is that a
women called Rosa Parks
didn’t accepted to let half of
the bus for white people
because there was no white
people in the bus.
Rosa Parks
The Montgomery Bus

7. Civils rights movement
• She was arrested and went to court.
• The 3rd of December of that year,
black people came in accordance to
not to use the bus, so they shared
cars for example.
• This movement spent 381 days, until
the segregation law was aborted.
Rosa Parks going to the court

8. Civil rights movement
• The civil rights movement
finished in 1968 when Martin
Luther King become dead in
Memphis, he was there to help
the garbage man in a
demonstration demanding a
better treat and a better
contract.
King during
a speech
Martin Luther King Jr.

9. Martin Luther King’s Murder

10. Martin Luther King’s murder
• This event is known as the end
of the civil rights movement,
because he was the symbol of
that fight.
• He was murdered in the balcony
of the Lorraine Motel at the 18
hours and a minute of the 4th of
April of 1968.
The balcony of the murder
Lorraine motel

11. Martin Luther King’s murder
• He received a shoot in its head.
Rapidly its friends went out
when they heard the shot, but
it was late.
• An hour later he was declared
dead.
King at the
Lorraine Motel
King at the Lorraine Motel

12. Martin Luther King’s murder
• He’s very famous for its
speech in the Washington
Memorial the 28th of
August of 1963. He
fought for all the black
people rights in the
United States.
The famous speech in Washington

13. Martin Luther King’s murder
• He was killed by James Earl Ray, he
was born the 10th of March of 1928
and dead in prison on April 23rd of
1998 by a hepatitis C. He was caught
in London with a false Canadian
passport, after King’s death.
• Before that crime he was considered
Ray at prison
a “minor criminal”, because of that is
said that he wasn’t the real murderer
of Martin Luther King’s.
James Earl Ray FBI search poster

14. Racial riots

15. Racial riots
• The racial riots was a wave of
civil disturbance after Martin
Luther King’s death.
• The riots were caused because
King was the leader of the Civil
rights movement.
Riots in Washington
Car destroyed during
the riots

16. Racial riots
• People felt angry for its
dead; so many people
thought that violence
was the only way to
fight against racism.
Riots near a Candy shop
Riots in Chicago

17. Racial riots
• The biggest riots took place
in Washington DC, Baltimore,
Louisville, Kansas City and
Chicago.
• The resulting damage was
$50.000.000. In this riots 39
people dead, 34 of them were
black people.

18. Current situation

19. Current situation
• With the recent decades, it is
said that there exists a colour
blindness
or
an
"understanding that cultural
differences rooted in racial
identities are irrelevant for
peoples”.
Black people that has succeed

20. Current situation
• Furthermore, many cite the 2008
United
States
presidential
election as a step forward in race
relations.
• White Americans played a role in
electing Barack Obama, the
country's first black president.
The U.S. President, Barack Obama

21. Current situation
• In fact, Obama received a greater
percentage of the white vote
(43%), than did the previous
Democratic candidate, John
Kerry (41%).
Election results of 2008
Election results of 2012

22. Information sources
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movements_for_civil_rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/05/24/racism-in-america-racism-is-a-diseasethat-needs-to-be-cured/

23. The End
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