SAMPLE PRESENTATION American Segregation Meets the Civil Rights Movement Sample Student English 10 Mr. Zitrin 12 Dec. 2017
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Introduction to Civil Rights
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Introduction to Civil Rights Civil rights are considered federal: They come from being a U.S. citizen (Findlaw) Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on: ● Age ● Disability ● Ethnicity ...and more.
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Introduction to Civil Rights Civil rights are considered federal: They come from being a U.S. citizen (Findlaw) Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on: ● Age ● Disability ● Ethnicity ...and more.
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Introduction to Civil Rights Though slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, many Americans lived under “Jim Crow” laws for another century. These laws separated people by race -- but, as the Supreme Court would eventually rule, equality may be impossible when different groups live under different rules (Davis).
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Introduction to Civil Rights Congressman and former Civil Rights leader John Lewis advocated both justice and compassion. Lewis explained, “ When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have to do something. You have to John Lewis say something. But say it with love… Civil Rights Leader and act with kindness (Johnson) . & Congressman
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of Civil Rights in the United States Selma, AL 1963
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1940’s ● Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to break the “color barrier” in Major League Baseball. ● President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the Armed Forces. (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1950’s ● Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme Court case ends school segregation -- which proves easier said than done. ● Rosa Parks famously refuses to move to the back of an Alabama bus. Black citizens boycott the bus system. (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement The 1963 March on Washington (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1960’s ● Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963. Remarkably, the “dream” part was unplanned (Hansen) ● President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1960’s ● Dr. King is assassinated ● Popular Black Muslim leader Malcolm X is also assassinated (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1960’s ● President Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act, outlawing housing discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin. (History.com)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Current State of Affairs Ferguson, MO 2014
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Current State of Affairs Book cover (Boyd)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Current State of Affairs First, the Good News ● Black citizens are now widely considered equal to whites or any others in the United States, both legally and socially. ● Many hailed the election of Barack Obama as President as a sign that America -- even white America -- was comfortable with the idea of black leadership (Haygood and Brown). ● Other groups successfully fought for their own Civil Rights, from women’s rights (Roe v. Wade; Title IX) to LGBT (right to marry & serve in military, protection from job discrimination.)
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Current State of Affairs On the Other Hand... ● Movements like Black Lives Matter have risen in response to a criminal justice system that sees blacks imprisoned at six times the rate of whites (Rector). ● High-profile shootings of black citizens by police officers spur heated debates about lethal force. ● And the typical black family still has just 1/10 the wealth of a white family (Schermerhorn).
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Helpers and Activism
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Helpers and Activism ● Thought leaders like Bryan Stevenson Michelle Alexander , and Ta-Nehisi Coates speak boldly on issues of fairness and justice. Bryan Stevenson
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Helpers and Activism ● Musicians and poets like the Bay Area’s Danez Smith write about the painful injustices of black life today, even while they fight to add new ideas about gender norms to the mainstream. Danez Smith
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Helpers and Activism ● Many organizations born between slavery and Civil Rights now carry powerful voices, bringing legal action and fighting for protections that previous generations could only dream of.
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Thank you.
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Works Cited Boyd, Herb, and Todd Burroughs. “Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today.” Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today , West Side Pub., 2010. “Civil Rights Movement.” History.com , A&E Television Networks, 21 Aug. 2018, www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement. Davis, Lucy. “Home.” Adam Matthew Digital , 1 June 2016, www.amdigital.co.uk/about/blog/item/naacp-against-segregation. Hansen, Drew. “Mahalia Jackson, and King's Improvisation.” The New York Times , The New York Times, 28 Aug. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/mahalia-jackson-and-kings-rhetorical-improvisation.html. Haygood, Wil, and DeNeen Brown. “For Many Blacks, Obama's Reelection Cements His Legacy.” The Washington Post , WP Company, 7 Nov. 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/for-many-blacks-obamas-reelection-cements-his-le gacy/2012/11/07/e83ccd7c-27b7-11e2-9972-71bf64ea091c_story.html.
SAMPLE PRESENTATION Works Cited Johnson, Alex B. “Good Trouble: John Lewis and Andrew Aydin.” The Bitter Southerner , bittersoutherner.com/good-trouble-john-lewis-andrew-aydin-march. McCarthy, Joe. “9 Black Activists Who Are Fighting Injustice And Fixing America.” Global Citizen , 24 Feb. 2017, www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-black-activists-who-are-fighting-injustice-and-f/. “What Are Civil Rights?” Findlaw , civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/what-are-civil-rights.html#where. Rector, Kevin. “Baltimore State's Attorney Mosby: Flawed Criminal Justice System Is Black Americans' Biggest Civil Rights Issue.” Baltimoresun.com , Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2019, www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-racial-injustice-20191116-gy7qpqp55zeih addfkkdgr23ji-story.html. Schermerhorn, Calvin. “Perspective | Why the Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More than 150 Years after Emancipation.” The Washington Post , WP Company, 19 June 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/why-racial-wealth-gap-persists-more-than-years-aft er-emancipation/.
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