Understanding History PBL
By:Blake Barton
What's Discrimination?
"The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the topics of race, age, or sex."
Source:http://decaturlegal.com/employment-discrimination-attorneys-georgia/
Whats Racial Discrimination?
Racial Disrimination refers to the practice of treating individuals differently because of their race or color.
1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott starts when Rosa Parks refuses to give seat up to a White passenger. Boycott brings 26-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence. Emmett Till, a Chicago youth visiting relatives in the South, is murdered by Whites, who are then acquitted by an all-White jury.Which obviously was an unfair trial.
1963
Southern Christian Leadership Council, led by King, attacks Birmingham's discriminatory practices. Thousands of young students are arrested and brutalized by Birmingham police dogs and water cannons. Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP leader, is assassinated.President Kennedy gives first presidential address in support of Civil Rights. March on Washington. MLK delivers "I Have A Dream Speech."
1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in Memphis, TN.Which causes major riots and helped spark more people to fight for civil rights.
Current Status of Racial Discrimination?
Sources
Rosa Parks Pic:"How History Got the Rosa Parks Story Wrong." Washington Post. The Washington Post, n.d. Web. 26 May 2016.
Info for timeline: CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 26 May 2016.
Pic of Newspaper MLK:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/242279654927748342/?from_navigate=true
Def of Racial Discrimination:"Workplace Fairness." Race Discrimination -. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2016.