The Civil Rights movement has affected every single one of us at Daly Elementary. The civil rights movement started in the 1950’s, it gave us multicultural classrooms. African Americans wanted to be treated as equally as whites.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Rosa Parks was an african american. Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913. Rosa Parks went to school at Highlander Folk School and
This protest ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. Also this is when Rosa Parks died October 24, 2005. Rosa was a very imprudent women Rosa parks even got arrested because she would not give up her set for a white man. Rosa Parks got arrested because the african americans had to set in the back and the white people has to set in the front. Also after Rosa Parks got out of jail she started the boycott that’s when the black people stopped using the bus for a year. Also some white people that liked Rosa Parks supported her and did not ride the the buses ether and 50,000 people did not ride the busses because of the boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King?
Martin Luther King was an African American civil rights leader. Martin Luther King was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Martin Luther King went to 3 different schools after high school here are the the schools he went to Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston university. Martin Luther King on was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Boycott
Rosa Parks after she got out of jail she started the boycott this is when the boycott started December 1, 1955 and it ended December 20, 1956. Rosa Parks started the boycott because she wouldn’t give her seat on the bus to a white man. She encouraged African Americans to not ride the bus, they either had to walk, bike, or carpool. 50,000 people did not ride the bus in Rosa Parks county. This protest ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
I have a dream speech
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, during the march on Washington for jobs and freedom Martin Luther King gave his famous i have a dream speech. 250,000 people attended this protest, in which they walked a mile long walk from the national mall to the Lincoln Memorial. After that, they listened to many civil rights leaders speeches but Martin Luther King jr. came last. The i have a dream part of his speech came at the very end.
Civil rights act
The civil rights act of 1964, was the end of the civil rights movement. It outlawed any discrimination against race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
With the determination of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and all the other civil rights leaders, now African Americans are equal as the white people, and any other race. At Daly Elementary 2015, there are a lot of races in each classrooms. We are all together and no one is discriminating each other. Without civil rights Movement each classroom will still be segregated, and races would not be able to mix.