Civil Rights
By: Amanda Watts
JFK
JFK is a big reason everyone is equal. He gave a televised address on the problem of racial discrimination calling it a "moral crisis". JFK is not automatically associated with the civil rights issues. He always political realism before any beliefs when he voted for the Civil rights act.
Martin Luther King
HE was very known for his " I had a dream speech" in the mid 50's. Many people say he was assassinated because of the speech he gave about everyone being equal. He was inspired by advocates of nonviolence. King sought for equality for African Americans. The economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is very known women from the civil rights movement. By refusing to give up her seat she eventually lost her job. But over the next half century she was recognized for her dignity and strength to end the segregation. After she lost her job the U.S. supreme court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
Brown vs. Board
The court ruled that "separate but equal" for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. This over turned the "Plessy vs. Ferguson act from 1896.
Maynard Jackson
Maynard Jackson was born in 1938 and died in 2003. He was the first African American to be elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms. He was first elected in 1974 then served the second time in 1990. He was also the first African American mayor of any major southern city.
Major Facts
* In 1954, the U.S. supreme court struck f=down the "separate but equal" doctrine that formed the basis for state-sanctioned discrimination, drawling national and international attention to African Americans.
*Some of the people who fought for the civil rights movement risked and sometimes lost their lives.
*The civil rights movement was often called the"Second Reconstruction".
*James Meredith was the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Why i chose the Civil Rights
The reason i picked this was because this subject really catches my eye. Like us discriminating African Americans the way we did was absoultly terrible. I found the many people that stood up for what they believed in inspiring. So many of those people lost their lives for trying to stand up fir what they believe in i just don't approve how people handled things the was they did. This is the reason why i chose this topic to research.