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Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
Maria Stewart
Maria Stewart, a teacher and journalist on civil rights. She spoke the famous speech "Why sit here and die" in 1832. This was about wanting equality and wanting African-Americans to resist slavery -
Fredrick Douglass Speech
"What to the slave is fourth of July," Douglass says that Independence Day wasn't a day of celebration for enslaved people. -
Lincoln Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln really wanted to bring the country by stating his claim that both the South and North had to share some of the blame for the sin of slavery. -
Ida B. wells
Another civils rights leader and women's rights, this one being in the 1800s. She wrote the book southern horrors, about lynching during the time/violence against African Americans. She sheds light upon issues didn't care about. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was not only an activist in the civil rights movement, she made a stand by not giving up her seat to a white man during a bus ride. She wanted to make a point about race. -
"A letter to my nephew." - James Baldwin
His letter was about America's racist past and current racism. This makes sense in 1962, since not all Americans had the right to vote. -
March on Washington
This event happened at the Washington monument and around 250,000 attended. This Demonstration was to express equal rights and trying to end discrimination. Also Martin Luther king Jr performed his speech at this event. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Not only was Mr. King a great civil rights leader, he presented us with with one of the great speech's of our current time. "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." I think this part in speech shows a little more personal side to him and really hits home hard to certain people. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin." This was the turning point in the civil rights movement. -
"Between the world and me" - Coates
A novel published in 2015, about Ta-Nehisi Coates telling his son the struggles and life of being black