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history / Racial segregation

Martin Luther King

Howard Thurman

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Rosa Parks

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In this museum, I present the history of racial segregation in the United States of America and 3 activists : Martin Luther King Rosa Parks Howard Thurman in particular Martin Luther King !

History and racial segregation

4) CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

3) JIM CROW LAWS

2) CIVIL WAR

1) SLAVERY

HISTORY/ RACIAL SEGREGATION

Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

• She was famous for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white person.

On December 1, 1955 , she refused to give her seat to a white men in a bus, (she was arrested for this act), what started the civil rights movement and organize the Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin Luther King. Rosa Parks was renommed " the mother of the freedom movement " and she became a guiding spirit of a civil rights movement.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on 4th February 1913 in Tuskegee. She was a women who fought against civil rights. She died on October 24, 2005 at 92 years old.

Howard Thurman

Howard Thurgood was born in West Palm Beach in Florida on the November 18, 1899 and died on the April 10, 1981 in San Fransisco in California. He was a civil rights leader. He inspired the idea of non-violence what influenced a generation of civil rights activists. he was a pastor. He was a key montor for Martin Luther King.

Howard Thurman

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Today there is the NAACP (national association american colored people) it's a association who want to eliminate the racial segregation.

There is too Trayvon Martin, he was shot by George Zimmerman on the 26th February 2012 in Florida when he had 17 years old. His history creates the movement "Blakes lives matter".

There is Georges Floyd, he was an African- American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minnesota on the 25th May 2020. His history did the tour of the world.

Today there are again situations of racism even after the work of person like Martin Luther King, ...

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In 1866, France Ellen Harper say a speech at " National Women Rights Convention" on the women rights and the imortance of including the African- american womens for vote. She denounces the racism and sexism, she describes the " dual burden".

3 cases lynching : - Reuben Hudson, on the 27th July 1887. - Two victims not named, on the 3rd April 1882 - Porter Turner, on the 21st August 1945

The history of Georges willis : Georges Willis build a neighborhood next to the city only for white people and protestants. He was one of creator of Ku Klux Klan. Avondale states (name of neighborhood) was created in 1924. This neihborhood flowered because the work of black people. In 1928 Georges Willis became the president of " Stone Mountai conferade memorial association". He was arrested but he left to North Carolina. There was a restaurant in his neighborhood, "Waffle House".

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• These laws cemented racial discrimination and favoured white people over black people.
• Crows are birds and the name Crow was the last name of the standard fictional black character played by a white man in blackface makeup from early to mid-19th century.
• Jim Crow was, therefore, a derogatory term of African Americans.

• Jim Craw Laws are laws who imposed the racial segregation in the South between the end of Recontruction in 1877 and the beginning of The Civil Rights Movement in 1950s.
• Jim Crow was the name of minstrel routine.
• The term came to be a designation for their segregated life.

Jim Crow Laws

racial segregation

Martin Luther King

He was born in 1929 in Atanta, Georgia. He was assassinad in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a minster (protestant priest). He was a famous activist for civil rights, he fought aigainst segregation in the USA. In August 1963 he gave his famous speech " I have a dream" at freedom mach in Washington D.C. He was going to university at 14 years old in Atlanta. The university was open in 1882 only for black mens. But he finished his studies from phiosopher to Boston.

The speech "I have a dream" was said By Martin Luther King in Washingon D.C. on a August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Gave This Speech For the freedom march. This speech did called to end at racism, he talk about his dream, that all men are equal. It's the speech more populary that Martin Luther King had gave.

Speech "I have a dream"

THE SLAVERY IN USA

The slavery is a system of domination and exploitation in wich people are prived of their liberty and are forced to work. The slavery in USA began in 1619, when The White Lion brought 20 africans slaves in british colony of Jamestown. African's slaves were present in regions like Florida one century before. The estimates say that Europeans and Americans transported 12,5 millions of slaves to the Americas. In 17th and 18th centuries, enskaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice.In 1962, the children of enslaved women became slave.Before the rise of American Revolution, the first debates to abolish slavery emerged and there were laws who freed only the newly born children of enslaved women. But after the end of American Revoluton War, the slavery was maintainted in the new states. In the mid-19th century, America's westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery who started the Civil War. The slavery was abolished the 18 December 1965.

Civil war

• The American Civil War started in April 12, 1861 because the slavery.
• American civvil War was the result of growing tensions between the Northern states ( Union) and the southern states (Confederacy) about the slavery.
• While the slavery was very popular in Southern States, many Northerners began to oppose it. At the end of 18th century, the "American Abolitionist movement" begazn to grow in popularity in the north.
• The American Civil War was ended in 1865, and the "Union" win the war. There were 752,000 to 851,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War.

Martin's father was a minister of a big church. Everybody called hid "Daddy king". He worked hard trying to make schools and job opportunities better for black people in Atlanta.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of a political action.it was a movement led by people from all over country, all fighting racism in local ways, creating a powerfull national movement. The work of people like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Malcom x led to creation of civil rights acts and Supreme Court ruling to end segregation. Martin Luther King and Malcom x had differents ideas about how to achieve, Martin Luther King used the non violence contrary to Malcom X, who used violence.