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Fight For Rights - Keira, Yena

TMS2025 KeiraW

Created on October 15, 2024

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Fight for rights

By Keira & Yena

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-video-civil-rights-speech-b2478860.html

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"I Have a Dream"

On August 16, 1963, countless black people came to listen to MLK’s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. The speech influenced many blacks and inspired people to fight for equality in peaceful protest so that the color of their skin would not be judged.

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The Lincoln Memorial was significant because that's where the speech was held.

The Lincoln Memorial.

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The I have a dream speech. (link at the top)

The speech is significant because it inspired millions of people to fight for the future we want and help end segregation.

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The Stone of Hope

The Stone of Hope is significant because Martin Luther King was the hope to all African Americans.

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Little Rock Nine

Nine African American children, scholars, went to attend Little Rock High School on September 4, 1957. They had to be heavily guarded because of the people who were against desegregating Little Rock would try to fight them out of the school. This is important because it was one of the first steps to desegregating the town of Little Rock, which then spread to more desegregation in other areas.

Significance

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Little Rock High School

The Little Rock High School is important because the first African Americans of that town got to go there.

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Significance

Protests about desegregation

The protests about desegregation are important because they brought notice to the suffering Blacks and showed the views about desegregation

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Children (9) of Little Rock

The Little Rock Nine children are important because they were the ones who first experienced trying to desegregate Little Rock

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Black Power Movement & Malcolm X

In the late 1960s and 70s in Greenwood Mississippi, Malcolm X and Black Muslims believed that Blacks were superior and they should take action for Black equality by any means necessary. After Malcolm's death, it helped lead the Blacks to taking steps for desegregation. It helped show Blacks how important their race is; racial pride, and how to defend themselves.

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The Black Muslims are important because that was the group Malcolm X was a part of.

Black Muslims

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The "Black Power" is important because it was inspired by the beliefs of Malcolm X

Black Power

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Black Pride is important because it helped encourage blacks to be proud of their color and who they are in the community

Black Pride

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Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Rosa Parks decided to sit in the whites-only seat on the bus and got arrested. The black people chose not to go on the bus for a year. Eventually, it lead to desegregation in buses. This is important because it showed that it leads to greater efforts to desegregate schools; and greater promotion of peaceful protest to desegregate other public places It showed that peaceful protests can lead to legal change..

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The seat

Presidental medal of freedom

The bus

The seat was significant because that was where she was asked to be moved away from but didn’t give in.

The bus was significant because that was the bus where Rosa Parks spoke up for herself.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is significant since Rosa Parks was the one who made desegregation on buses.

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Assassination of MLK 1968

James Earl Ray assassinated MLK on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel. It led to fights breaking out over his death; people who supported him were mad, and people who were againt him and his movement were happy. This is important because it sparked people to fight fro desegregation even more than before.

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The assassin of MLK, James Earl Ray, is important because he was the one who murdered MLK.

James Earl Ray

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The Lorraine Motel is important because that's where MLK was assassinated.

Lorraine Motel

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MLK's legacy is important because he was the leader of the Civil Rights movement and persuaded many people to fight for equal rights.

MLK's Legacy

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Brown vs. Board of Education

In 1954, in Topeka Kansas, there was a hearing on whether or not the people in the South should desegregate schools between NAACP and John. W. Davis. Eventually, Brown and the NAACP won with the help of Thurgood Marshall,. The Supreme Court declared that School segregation is illegal nationwide and schools must desegregate with “deliberate speed." This is important because it opened the chance to desegregate every possible public area in the South.

Significance

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The supreme court was the place where the supreme court justice exclaimed that segregating schools was unconstitutional

The supreme court building.

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Thurgood Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall was significant because he ended segregation in schools in the South.

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The newspaper

The newspaper was significant since it exclaimed that segregation was unconstitutional. And it showed the end of schoole segregation for the whole country.

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