PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCERosa Parks Martin Luther King
Segregation in the USA
In 1865, at the end of the American Civil War, slavery was abolished but a rigid system of racial segregation soon started
White and black people couldn't go to the same schools, hospitals, restaurants, trains and buses.
WHITES COLOURED
Segregation laws didn't allow marriage between black and white people and black people were excluded from political life
ROSA PARKS(1913-2005)
She was a black woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa went to a school for black children and had to walk miles to get there, while white students had a school bus. She grew with constant discrimination and witnessed lots of violence against black people.
In those days buses had seats reserved to whites at the front and seats reserved to black people at the back. One day, in December 1955 the bus was empty but Rosa thought "NO MORE!" and she refused to give her seat to a white man. The bus driver stopped the bus and called the police. SHE WAS ARRESTED...
MARTIN LUTHER KING
- He was one of the leaders in the campaign agains racial discrimination.
- He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929.
- He studied theology and became the pastor of a black baptist church in Montgomery.
- When Rosa was arrested King organized a BOYCOTT of the buses in Alabama in support of the woman.
- For more than one year black people walked, cycled or used cars. The bus companies lost a lot of money.
- In 1956 segregation was declared ILLEGAL on buses.
During the boycott, many buses on the road had few passengers. (Photo taken in 1956 by Dan Weiner; copyright John Broderick)
"I HAVE A DREAM"
King believed in NON-VIOLENT protest and he organized many campaign against racial segregation. He was arrested lots of times but he continued to protest. In 1963, 250,000 people marched on Washington in a peaceful protest. King spoke to them about his dream of FREEDOM and EQUALITY for all Americans.
Here are some songs about MLK
In August 1963, 22-year old folksinger Joan Baez, led a crowd of 300,000 in singing "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial during A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington.
"We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the American civil rights movement. The song is most commonly attributed as being lyrically descended from "I'll Overcome Some Day", a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1901.
King won the NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE in 1965. Sadly he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968
A famous song by the Irish pop group U2 was written to remember him, "Pride"
"...early morning April four a shot rings out in the Memphis sky..."
Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement and in 1996 the American president Clinton awarded her with the MEDAL of FREEDOM.She died in 2005 at the age of 92. At her memorial there were about 50,000 people.
Read more
The civil rights icon becomes the first black woman to be honoured with a full-length statue in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall . IN 2013, President Barack Obama unveiled the statue, saying Mrs Parks had taken her rightful place among those who have shaped the course of US history.
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PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCERosa Parks Martin Luther King
Segregation in the USA
In 1865, at the end of the American Civil War, slavery was abolished but a rigid system of racial segregation soon started
White and black people couldn't go to the same schools, hospitals, restaurants, trains and buses.
WHITES COLOURED
Segregation laws didn't allow marriage between black and white people and black people were excluded from political life
ROSA PARKS(1913-2005)
She was a black woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa went to a school for black children and had to walk miles to get there, while white students had a school bus. She grew with constant discrimination and witnessed lots of violence against black people.
In those days buses had seats reserved to whites at the front and seats reserved to black people at the back. One day, in December 1955 the bus was empty but Rosa thought "NO MORE!" and she refused to give her seat to a white man. The bus driver stopped the bus and called the police. SHE WAS ARRESTED...
MARTIN LUTHER KING
During the boycott, many buses on the road had few passengers. (Photo taken in 1956 by Dan Weiner; copyright John Broderick)
"I HAVE A DREAM"
King believed in NON-VIOLENT protest and he organized many campaign against racial segregation. He was arrested lots of times but he continued to protest. In 1963, 250,000 people marched on Washington in a peaceful protest. King spoke to them about his dream of FREEDOM and EQUALITY for all Americans.
Here are some songs about MLK
In August 1963, 22-year old folksinger Joan Baez, led a crowd of 300,000 in singing "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial during A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington.
"We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the American civil rights movement. The song is most commonly attributed as being lyrically descended from "I'll Overcome Some Day", a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 1901.
King won the NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE in 1965. Sadly he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968
A famous song by the Irish pop group U2 was written to remember him, "Pride"
"...early morning April four a shot rings out in the Memphis sky..."
Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement and in 1996 the American president Clinton awarded her with the MEDAL of FREEDOM.She died in 2005 at the age of 92. At her memorial there were about 50,000 people.
Read more
The civil rights icon becomes the first black woman to be honoured with a full-length statue in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall . IN 2013, President Barack Obama unveiled the statue, saying Mrs Parks had taken her rightful place among those who have shaped the course of US history.
Thanksfor watching
Copyright © 2021 The Crazy Teacher. All Rights Reserved.