Some notes on segregation in the USA in the 1950's and two people who changed history

2. Separation of people into racial or
ethnic groups in daily life.
Segregation in the USA in the '50s:
Ø Legally black and white people had
the same rights, but they couldn't
mix up.
Ø In fact black people were treated
and considered inferior.
Segregation:

3. ü Schools,
ü hospitals,
ü restaurants,
ü theatres,
ü buses
ü toilets
ü …
were ONLY for
white OR
“colored” people
Segregation:

4. Segregation:
White people
had better
jobs
Black people
were poorer

5. Violence on colored
people was legal
Lynching was current
White people
were not arrested
if they hurt black
people.
Segregation:

6. Rosa Parks:
1955 (Dec, 1st): Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to
a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
ü She was arrested for
violation of the
segregation laws
ü Black people stopped
taking the bus and the
protest went on for 381
days (Bus Boycott)

7. Martin Luther King
• He was born in Georgia on the 15th January 1929
• He studied theology and became a Baptist pastor in 1954
• He was the leader of the Bus Boycott in 1955 in Alabama
• He became the leader of the non-violent civil rights
movement
• He made 2500 speeches and the police arrested him 20
times from 1957 to 1968
• He made his famous I have a dream speech in Washington
in 1963 in front of 250,000 people
• He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 (he was 35)
• He was assassinated on the 4th of April 1968 in Memphis

8. I have a dream
I have a dream
that my four little children
will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their
character.
I have a dream today!