The document discusses the history of civil rights and racial inequality in the USA. It describes the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s-60s to end legalized racial discrimination. It then discusses the 1968 assassination of MLK Jr. and the subsequent riots that broke out. Finally, it notes that racism remains a problem today with continued poverty and lack of education affecting many black communities.

1. Race and poverty
in the USA

2. Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Murderer
Racial Riots
Nowadays situation

3. In 1955 Black people protest to the government to have the same rights that the white ones have.
All started when a women called Rosa Parks refused to give her sit to a white man, and she was arrested.
The blacks didn’t want to be discriminated any more so they started a boycott to the bus system which –
martin Luther King Jr. Leading it.
This encouraged the blacks to protest for their rights in other cities. King that was a pacifist person, spoke in
all the medias to convince the people of his ideas. Thousands of them were put in prison including King.
The movement finished in 1964 when the president Lyndon B. Johnson created the Civil Rights Act, which
forbids discrimination based on the colour of the skin, race, religion or sex .

5. James Earl Ray was the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr. He was born in March 10, 1928 and
died in prison on April 23, 1998 for hepatitis C. He shoot King from a second-floor balcony in
Memphis. He was caught in London with a Canadian passport with a false name in 1968. In
prison he died from hepatitis C for a fail blood transfusion.

6. What did you expect? I don't
know why we're so surprised.
When you put your foot on a
man's neck and hold him down
for three hundred years, and then
you let him up, what's he going to
do? He's going to knock your
block off.
The riots were caused by the assassination of King. Not only because King was a beloved leader in the civil
rights movement, but also a major advocate for nonviolence. His death made some people to feel angry and
disillusioned, and they think that only violent resistance to white racism could be effective.
The rioters were mostly black, but they were not all poor. Middle-class blacks joined in, wanting to
demonstrate against systemic inequality more than they wanted to steal for their own benefit.
The most brutal riots were in Washington, Chicago and Baltimore where more than a hundred people died
and thousands were arrested. Lyndon B. Johnson that was in favor of the nonviolence actions was not
surprised by the riots.

7. Nowadays racism is a big problem in America, but the government is taking a passive attitude in
this issue. They know that there is a problem, but they don’t do anything to change it, we can
listen some of Bush’s or Obama speeches and we can see that they say there is a problem but
they didn’t say anything to solve it. There continues being more poverty and no education
between black people than with white ones.

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10. Made By:
Alba Segalés Rodríguez