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Rosa Parks

"I have a Dream"

Greensboro

Made by: Gabe Thompson

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Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

The bus boycott started in Motgomery, Alabama. When Rosa Parks refused to move from the white section of the bus to the black section, she was arrested. This struck outbreak all over Montgomery. Almost 95% of African-Americans in Montomery Refused to ride the bus for over a year. Until the bus company lost so much money that they switched to "free-seating."

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The Bus Ride

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The Boycott

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Rosa Parks Bus Boycott Artifacts

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MLK: "I have a dream"

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When MLK was finally done with segergation he delivered "I have a dream". To over 250,000 in the most famous place in the USA he talked about freedom. He said things like "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." He made many relations to the Gettysburg Adress and crafted the most important and famous speech in the history of the world.

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The Gettysburg Adress

The Speech

The Crowd

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MLK: "I have a dream" Artifacts

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Birmingham was also known as the most segregated town in America. MLK decided to take a visit to Birmingham to try to sway the tide in the segregation. When he arrived he was immediately jailed by Bull Connor. He wrote a letter in prison stating they would use kids to protest. When he got out after 9 days they did just what they said they would do. Since these were just kids, Bull Connor couldn't use any intense violence, he decided to blast the kids with firemen hoses. After he did this people were enraged and buissnesses were forced to change into desegrergated facilities. The buissness owners were mad so most were forced to comply, resulting in the people killing 4 innocent school students.

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Birmingham Marches and MLK Jailed

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The Protests

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The Hose

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Birmingham Artifacts

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What're you doing here?

After Rosa Parks was arrested people stopped riding the buses and walked everywhere. The people in these pictures refused to take the buses and walked everywhere from work to their homes, etc...

The crowd that came to watch the speech was so massive that the population there was over 5x the size of a NBA game.

Because there were kids marching in Birmingham and not adults they could not hit them or attack them, so instead they use fire department water hoses to blast the kids.

Because most adults who would stand up to segergation in Birmingham were in jail, MLK decided to protest through children who were no more than 15 years old.

After Rosa Parks was arrested on the bus she was taken to a police station where she waited for a few hours.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech was so famous that people all over the world were touched by it.

When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Birmingham he got arrested by Bull Connor and was put in jail. He stayed there for over a week before he was released.

When Rosa Parks refused to sit on the Black section of the bus, she knew she would get in trouble.

When making ¨I have a dream¨ MLK purposley made many connections to the Gettysburg Adress, like how Abraham Lincoln said "Four score and seven years ago." MLK made a direct reference to the this part of Abe's speech by saying "Five score years ago."