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Segregation By: Dekhari henry

Segregation By: Dekhari henry. Segregation. Segregation is defined as… The practice of requiring separate facilities, as in housing, schools, and transportation for use by whites and nonwhites. . Why is the fight for Segregation important?.

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Segregation By: Dekhari henry

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  1. SegregationBy: Dekhari henry

  2. Segregation • Segregation is defined as… The practice of requiring separate facilities, as in housing, schools, and transportation for use by whites and nonwhites.

  3. Why is the fight for Segregation important? • So that we don’t need to be separated by the color of our skin. • We had many people lose their lives for us. • The struggles of my grandfather’s life.

  4. So we don’t need to be separated by the color of our skin. • We were separated by the buses and had the Montgomery bus boycott. • We were separated by schools and we had the first black child go to school • We couldn’t walk on the same side of the street as whites and black men and boys were killed for that.

  5. We had many people lose their lives for us. • A young boy named Emmitt Till who was killed for flirting with a white woman. • Many blacks were hanged for just random reasons. • Dr. King was killed by assassin.

  6. The struggles of my grandfather’s life. • My grandfather lived on a plantation • My grandfather’s plantation owner would lock them in the plantation at night. • My grandfather taught his father how to count so the owner can stop cheating them whenever they brought things from his owner’s store.

  7. How I researched Segregation • I read two books from the library about Dr. King. • I searched many events and etc. about Dr. King. • And I interviewed my grandfather on the topic.

  8. MLK had a dream • Dr. King had a dream lets continue to live it.

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