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Impact of Civil Rights Leaders

Explore the actions of Rosa Parks and Dr. King during the Civil Rights Movement and their influence on others. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, and their significance in creating positive change in America.

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Impact of Civil Rights Leaders

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  1. Essential Questions: Why would others be affected by Rosa Parks’ actions during the Civil Rights Movement? How did the conflict of the Montgomery Bus Boycott create change? How did the March on Washington create positive changes in America? How did Dr. King influence others by his actions?

  2. Faces of Civil Rights Leaders

  3. The Voices of Montgomery Rosa Parks is arrested: · As in many southern states, Alabama’s Jim Crow laws required that blacks give up their seats on buses to whites. · In December of 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

  4. Dr. King: · The NAACP, with the help of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a bus boycott in Montgomery. Listen to Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy discuss the importance of the boycott · Montgomery Bus Boycott = Year long boycott to fight for integration MLK, Jr. = led nonviolent protests and fought for equality of the races The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from left, at a press conference. (May 26, 1963)

  5. · King was arrested, his house was bombed, yet the boycott continued. He insisted that his followers follow civil disobedience, or nonviolent protests against unjust laws. · Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested, Montgomery, Alabama, 1958.

  6. A hard-won battle: · In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional. · Therefore, the Montgomery bus company agreed to integrate their buses and hire black bus drivers. Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, at the conclusion of the boycott.

  7. Dr. King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy riding a bus on the first day for desegregated buses in Montgomery, AL. (Dec. 21, 1956)

  8. March on Washington • Equal rights and quality for education was demanded by African Americans & whites– a change needed to be made! • March on Washington = More than 250,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. to insist on laws that would guarantee equal rights and quality education. • Dr. King stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered a speech he had prepared. • He spoke about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as “a great beacon of light,” but that blacks are still not free.

  9. Dr. King says that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution promise equal rights to all. “Now is the time to make real promises of democracy,” he says. “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children.” • Dr. King then gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. • Footage of his speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA http://www1.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=94828

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