1 / 17

Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work.

Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work. Thursday, 1/12/12 Determine the speaker’s attitude toward the subject by listening to a speech and writing what the speaker feels towards their topic.

aure
Download Presentation

Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work.

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work. Thursday, 1/12/12 Determine the speaker’s attitude toward the subject by listening to a speech and writing what the speaker feels towards their topic. Arrange supporting details, reasons, descriptions, and examples effectively and persuasively in relation to the audience by stating what statements supported the speaker’s opinions.

  2. Why We HonorDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Each year a fundamental question arises. Young people especially want to know, "Why do we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? From http://www.king-raleigh.org/history/honor.htm

  3. Our Country’s Early History • Almost all black people came here as slaves. Most were kidnapped from Africa to create free labor for Americans. • Upon arriving in this country, they were sold to whites as slaves without rights or freedoms.

  4. 1776: Freedom from Great Britain • Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." • That is, Jefferson declared that all citizens have the rights to be free from oppression and have equal opportunities in pursuing their goals. These ideals have been called the American Dream.

  5. In the New Government “made by the people, for the people • Slaves were not given the same rights as white people.: • not given the opportunity to choose their leaders, start businesses, own homes or go to school. • not allowed to lead their lives in the ways they wanted. Yet, there were many people, mostly people in the North, who wanted the slaves to be free, but there was not a majority of the people in the country who felt that way. Too Long-winded, Jefferson!

  6. Civil War Freeing the slaves was a large issue in the Civil War. After that war, the slaves were finally given their freedom through amendments to the Constitution. the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States, the 14th Amendment gave blacks citizenship the 15th Amendment gave them the right to vote.

  7. Freedom with a Catch Blacks became free citizens of the United States, but many whites were not happy with this change. They felt that blacks should not be treated as citizens equal to whites. They passed laws to keep whites and blacks apart. In 1896, the Supreme Court decided that the "separate but equal" facilities legalized in the South did not violate the 14th Amendment.

  8. Separate but Equal aka Segregation • Thus, blacks could not work with whites, live in the same neighborhoods or send their children to the same schools as whites.

  9. After WWII, Second Class Citizens had had enough • In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that blacks and whites could go to the same schools, saying that "separate but equal" schools were inherently unequal. • However, many people still did not want to change.

  10. “The Problem We All Live With”, Norman Rockwell , 1963

  11. It took a strong leader, a person who believed in peace and justice, to win more freedom for black Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. was that man.

  12. Between 1955 and 1968 • Martin Luther King, Jr. helped change America. • He brought to the world's attention how unfairly blacks were treated. • He had the help of millions of Americans, but his strong leadership and unprecedented power of speech gave people the faith and courage to keep working peacefully even when others did not. • This led to new laws that ended the practice of keeping people of different backgrounds apart, making life fairer for everyone.

  13. Sit-ins at “all white” lunch counters promoted King’s mission of non-violent protest.

  14. King’s mission was to empower his people. His platform was: • We can stick together. • Our leaders do not have to sell out. • Threats and violence do not intimidate us. • We believe in ourselves. • Economics is part of our struggle. • We have a powerful weapon: non-violent resistance. • We as Negroes have arrived!

  15. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make January 20th, the celebration of Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday.

  16. The legacy of Dr. King lives in each of us and we are responsible to promote, teach and live the American Dream.

  17. His Dreams

More Related