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Why Sit Here and Die Speech
By: Maria W. Stewar -
What To The Slave Is Fourth Of July?
By: Fredreck Douglass -
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
By: Abraham LIncoln -
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy was the 35th precident. He was most known for in the Civil RIghts Movment for introducing the civil rights act right before his assisnation. He did this after he heard about the March On washington and wanted to stop it so he promised to end discrimination. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an American activist in the Civil Rights Movment. She is most known for her role in the montgomery bus boycott. Four days before the boycott Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man on the bus. This was what trigger the montgomery bus boycott that was meant to end the segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott was a Civil RIghts protest used to protest against segrigated seating. The protest took place for a year where African Americans refused to ride city buses. It is considered the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement. His most famous work was the "I Have A Dream Speech" where he highlights the countrys unjust, and unequal mindset and he urges change. He was assisnated on the balconey of his motel in 1968. -
Whitney Moore Young Jr
Whitney Moore Young Jr was a Civil Rights Movment leader who was trained as a social worker. He was a key organized in the march at Washington and he worked to gain equality for black workers. He was also President of the Urban League an organization that he brought tofrontline of the civil rights movement. -
The March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph founded union that faught for equality. To enforce this equality he planed a march 1941 but it was called off by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after he promised to end discrimination. But in the end two decades later the march took place to quicken the pace of change that was needed. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th U.S precident who took over the work that precident John F. Kennedy began. He was the one to sign the Civil Rights act that Kennedy had introduced right before his assination. He also pressed for the congress to pass the act. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7 1993, 600 peacful protestance were doing the Selma to Montgomery March. They were protesting against a white police officer that had killed a black civil rights activist. When they reached Edmund Pettus Bridge they were blocked by police who used violence against them. -
Lyndon Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech
This speech was to support civil rights activists after the " Bloody Sunday". In this speech he announced a voting legislation that he would introduce and it was a was to ask congress to ask the civil rights act. -
Civil Rights Act
President John F. Kennedy had introduced the Civil Rights Act before his assasination and in 1964 it was signed by his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. This was one of the goals that came with the March at washington. What the act did was it barred discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public facilities discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public facilities. -
Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Neshisi Coates -
The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles
By: Stephanie Hinnershitz