Life’s most persistent
and urgent question is
What are you doing for
others?”
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 Typed
 5th
100 Words or Less
& 6th Grade Category
 Due
December 8th
 January
16 Award Ceremony at
Washburn University
 Peace
 Diversity
 Human
Rights
 Non-Violence
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Nelson Mandela
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Cesar Chavez
What are Civil Rights?
Freedom of Speech
Right to Vote
Equal Treatment
Be free from unfair treatment!
Due Process!
Civil Rights Act
Congress grants equal
rights to African
Americans
Ku Klux Klan was founded
5 all black colleges were founded
Jim Crowe segregation
laws established in the
southern states
Separate everything!
Churches
Jim Crowe Etiquette
Jim Crowe Etiquette
Black Codes
Mississippi Poll Tax
created
Cost $$$ to vote
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but Equal public
facilities are legal!
Louisiana Grandfather Clause
Only can vote if grandfather
could in 1867.
No African Americans could vote!
Madame C.J. Walker
(Sarah Breedlove McWilliams)
st
1 self-made woman
millionaire
Owning hair-care Denver
business.
Red Summer
Race riots breakout due
to resentment of
migration
Race Riots
St. Louis
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Detroit
Atlanta
Harlem
Renaissance
Most influential movement of African
American literature!
Bessie Smith
Josephine Baker
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
The
GREAT MIGRATION
African Americans
move from
South to North
Rural to Urban Areas
Great Migration
“Uplifting the Race”
Increase in National
Organizations like NAACP
Improve Literacy
Socioeconomic Opportunities
A study on the effects of Syphilis
on 400 African American men was
started. The men were never told
or given treatment for the disease.
President Bill Clinton will apologize in 1997,
65 years later!
Jessie Owens
Wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin games.
100 meter
200 meter
4x 100 meter relay
Long Jump
Adolf Hitler refuses to shake Gold Medal winner!
Nazi Party propaganda showed Africans as racially
inferior.
Olympic games were supposed to demonstrate the
Aryan supremacy!
Joe Louis
Boxing Heavyweight Champion
First African American athlete that
broke down the sport racial barrier!
Jackie Robinson
1st Black athlete to Letter in 4 sports in college
Baseball Basketball Football Track
1st Professional Baseball Player
Other teams threatened to forfeit, hurled racial
slurs, plus gave him a seven inch cut on arm.
He never fought back!
MLB of Year 1947
MVP of Year 1949
Jackie’s other Roles in the Civil Right
Movement
Court Martialed from army for not
moving to the back of the bus
Marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Built houses for low income families
through the Robinson Construction Co.
1948
RED TAILS
United States Army was
Desegregated
1954
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme court rules that segregation of
school is illegal.
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott last one year!
1956
United States Supreme Court rules that
Segregation on buses in Alabama is
illegal.
Cesar Chavez
1962
Worked for Latino Civil Rights
“La Causa”
Organized the “Grape March”
1,000 of migrant workers marched 341 miles to Sacramento
His motto was "Si Se Puede
"Yes, it can be done".
Little Rock Nine
US Army upholds African American Civil
Rights by escorting students to school.
 John
Carlos and Tommy Smith
 Olympic Project for Human Rights
 Raise their fist in the air, to make a stand
 Against
the draft since they were
guaranteed civil rights, why should they
have to fight?
 Threw
 Joins
Gold Medal away
Nation of Islam
 Becomes
Muhammad Ali
Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
His house was bombed, and he was arrested
Believed in non-violent protests
Helped organize March on Washington.
Over 250,000 people attended this march
in an effort to show the importance of civil
rights
Assassinated in 1968
 http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/us/mlk-
i-have-a-dream-9-things/
 http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/watc
h-i-have-dream-speech-video-113801
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent
leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.
He would get large groups to refuse to work, sitting
in the streets, boycotting the courts, and more.
Each of these protests are small by themselves, but
when most of the population does them at once, it
can shut down the country.
Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader in South
Africa.
He fought against apartheid, a system where nonwhite citizens were segregated from whites and
did not have equal rights.
He spent 27 years in prison.
South African Presidentt
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Thurgood Marshall
Elizabeth Stanton
Mother Teresa
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
No war or fighting
Rights inherent to all
Understanding each group is
unique
Respect for things different.
Using laws to fairly judge
Nonviolence is the practice of being
harmless to self and others under
every condition.
It comes from the belief that hurting
people, animals or the environment is
unnecessary to achieve an outcome