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Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
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"Why Sit Here and Die" Speech By Maria W. Stewart
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"What to the Slave, is the 4th of July" By Frederick Douglass
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"Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address" by Aborham Lincoln
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Booker T Washington
Booker T. Washington designed and developed the Tuskegee Institute. The Tuskegee Institute was a school made for training black teachers, skilled workers, and farmers. He was recognized as a spokesperson for people of color by white people and actively spoke out against discrimination and lynching. -
Excerpt from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" By Ida B. Wells
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks helped to put the Civil Rights Movement into full swing by refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white man in 1955 which had started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks had been found guilty of violating segregation laws and had faced harassment and lost her job. The bus boycott was larger than anyone had anticipated after what Parks had done and she had become known as "The mother of the civil rights movement." -
The Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was sparked by Rosa Parks in 1955. This was a boycott where people refused to ride the city bus in Montgomery as a protest against segregated seating. The boycott had become larger than they had expected with about 40,000 black bus riders would continue until the city met their demands. They wanted them to hire black bus drivers and implement a first come first serve seating and the demands didn't call for a change in segregation laws they wanted courtesy. -
Albany Movement
The goal of the Albany Movement was for desegregation for the community but more than 1000 African Americans were jailed as a result. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement but after 8 months he left Albany and claimed the movement was a failure. The movement had raised black voter registration efforts and was able to get Thomas Chatmon enough votes in the election for a city commission seat and forced a run-off election. -
"Letter To My Nephew" by Baldwin
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The March on Washington
The March on Washington was one of the largest protests with more than 200,000 people taking place in it. This protest pressured the administration of John F. Kennedy to start a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. During this, Martin Luther King had delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins helped to organize the March on Washington and was a co-founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Roy Wilkins was named the executive secretary of the NAACP in 1955 and held that position until 1977. While he was in the NAACP they had helped with a lot of major victories for civil rights such as Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. played a big role in the Civil Rights Movement by being behind things such as the March on Washington and The Montgomery Bus Boycott. He also performed his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington while standing on the steps of the Lincoln monument. He had drawn international attention to the violence between white segregationists and peaceful demonstrators. He would later be assassinated on April 4, 1968. -
"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
The "I Have a Dream" speech was performed during the March on Washington in 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr. This helped to bring international attention to the racial inequality and violence that had been happening. This helped to push for voting laws and the civil rights law to be passed. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister, human rights activist, and public speaker. He would urge Black Americans to protect themselves by any means necessary, this would be the opposite of what Martin Luther King Jr. would be teaching about nonviolence. He founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was a march held in Selma, Alabama. This march was for the 600 people who had been attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where officers bead unarmed marchers with clubs and tear gas. -
"Between the World and Me" by Coates
