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Declaration of Independence
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"What to the slave is the 4th of July" Douglas
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"Lincolns Second Inaugural Address"
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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws weren’t adopted in northern states; however, Black people still experienced discrimination at their jobs or when they tried to buy a house or get an education. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa was born on February 4th 1914 and died on October 24th 2005.Rosa was arrested on Dec 24 1955 because she would not give up her seat on the bus for a white male. In 1999, Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. -
Rosa Bus
On December 1, 1955, African-American seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for failing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. -
Daisy Bates
Daisy was born in Arkansas on November 11th 1914. Bates joined the civil rights movement and became the president of the Arkansas NAAPC chapter in 1952. In 1957 she helped the little rock nine become the first to attend an all white high school. -
Little Rock Nine
In 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas asked for volunteers from all-Black high schools to attend the formerly segregated school. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. MLK jr was born in 1929. He was the most prominent leader in the 20th century struggle for civil rights. He lead a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In 1960, Kennedy became the youngest man elected as President of the United States and the first Catholic. On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy launched his initiative for civil rights legislation. On November 22, 1963, barely past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade drove through Dallas, Texas -
Woolworth's Lunch Counter
On February 1, 1960, four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served. -
Baldwin "A Letter to my Nephew"
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Malcom X
Malcolm was born in 1925 and died in 1965. Malcom was an effective public speaker that would talk about black empowerment. Malcom was assassinated on February 21 while giving a speech in New York City. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
"Between the world and me"
