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Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

By Josiah Njoroge

       Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. was a big part in the Civil Rights Movement? He lead the march on Washington and the I have a dream speech. That gained a lot of progress towards coloreds getting more rights and respect. Read more to learn other interesting facts about the Civil Rights Movement.

The white people were treated better than other races. So the coloreds were trying to get rights and be equal. So the different races wanted equal rights. The main people in the Civil Rights movement are the African Americans. Some great African Americans are Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and a lot of others. There are also some great events that happened during the Civil Right s like these three.

On May 17, 1948 The Supreme court said on the landmark case Brown vs. the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas that segregation in public schools doesn’t follow the rules of the Constitution.

On December 1, 1955 NAACD member Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man at the front of the bus. So she got arrested. That also started the bus boycott.

The last event was on August 28, 1965 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave the I have a dream speech to a large crowd in Washington D.C. He talked about colored races wanting peace, freedom, and happiness. On the same day he led a march called the march on Washington. Soon after he got shot standing on the porch of his apartment at night.

All colored people earned many rights. In 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed that year, and made a huge difference in just 1 year. By 1966 60% of African American were registered to vote and also were starting to be elected to offices and positions within the government.

Our President Barrack Obama is the 1st black President of the U.S.A. Now people are treated equally no matter the color.

Wind energy

Wind energy is a clean energy. It is powered by wind turbines. Wind energy does not pollute the environment. If wind energy is powered its power gets stronger every second. A thick cable in the wind turbines collects wind energy and produces it into electricity. There’s also a general electric 1.5 megawatt machine that powers wind energy .big wind turbines are slow and small wind turbines are fast but big wind turbines are stronger because of the winds pressure so that’s why big wind turbines are stronger it can be as strong as 90 or 100 miles per hour.

hydro vs geo

Hydro VS geothermal

Geo is the earth’s heat deep in the middle of the earth. It is also its hot water and steam from the earth’s core. Geo is heat and thermal is steam.

Hydro is captured by the movement of water. It uses turbines and transformer, control gate, generator, power house.  Geo cost 10 cents per hour and hydro is 9 so hydro is better.

informational piece

As you know solar power is energy from the sun.But it doesn’t genorate energy at all times.Most solar power plants are located in California, Arizona, and Nebraska.solar power cost 16-25 cents per hour and needs solar panels.Solar energy is used for heat and electricity.Solar power is non-polluting.Solar power is renewable.Solar panels last 15-30 years.But the panels extremly hot beams kill insects and birds if they fly into them.

solar power

Solar Power

Solar power is a renewable energy. It cost between sixteen and twenty five cents per hour. Solar power does not work on cloudy days. It works any were except the Artic or Antarctica. Solar energy could power the world for a year.
Solar power uses the suns energy and stress it in solar panels. Solar power can be used for powering small appliances. Solar panels do not make noise. That’s what I know about solar panels.