Monday, April 15, 2013

Civil Rights Movement

This week's blog will allow you to add on to someone else's post for credit IF you provide information that is relevant and that has not already been posted.

You will need to pick a person, event, group or court case that specifically deals with the Civil Rights Movement.

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1) Name the item chosen.
2) Identify the date or time period in which it takes place.
3) Explain (in complete sentences) how your item is relevant to the Civil Rights Movement.
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-Mrs. Buchanan

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  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
    January-Febuary 1957
    Martin Luther King and a few others created the SCLC that later becomes a major force in organizing the Civil Rights Movement.
    http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

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    1. 1) Martin Luther King Jr.
      2) January- Febuary 1957
      3) He traveled over 6 million miles giving more than 25 hundred speeches. He spoke about the injustices and rights African Americans should have. He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Then on April 4th, 1968, he was killed while giving a speech on the balcony of a hotel he was staying in.
      4) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

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    2. 1)Malcom X
      2)1915-1965
      3)Malcom was a media magnet, featuring in a week-long TV show called "THE HATE THAT HATE PRODUCED" with Mike Wallace in 1959. Bringing the problem if hate and the Klu Klux Clan to the media.

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    4. 1)Malcom X
      2)1915-1965
      3)Malcom was a media magnet, featuring in a week long TV show called "THE HATE THAT HATE PRODUCED" with Mike Wallace in 1959. Malcom brought the problem of hate to the
      media, helping others understand what minorities go through

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    6. 1)Malcom X
      2)1915-1965
      3)As a child Malcom and his family suffered greatly their house was burnt down and his father was suspected to have been murdered by members of the Black Legion. All of this lead up to him making a tv show in 1959.
      4)http://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.html

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  9. 1)The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Event)
    2)1957
    3)The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Martin Luther King Jr. was the president of this organization. On February 1, 1960, four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a protest designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters. This protest spread rapidly throughout the south and led to the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Both the SCLC and SNCC tried hard to accomplish civil rights for African Americans.
    4)http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement

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  10. 1. Medgar Evers
    2. 1954-1963
    3. Evers activism made him the most visible civil rights leader in the state of Missisippi.
    4. http://www.history.com/topics/medgar-evers

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  13. 1)Julian Bond
    2)1960
    3)In 1960 Julian Bound founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Earlier that year he helped create the Atlanta University civil rights organization, which directed several years of nonviolent protests and won integration of Atlanta’s movie theatres, lunch counters, and parks.
    4)http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/hjb7g.cfm

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  20. 1) Brown v. Board of Education
    2) 1954- 1955
    3) Chief Justice Earl Warren agreed with Brown, stating that discrimination in schools was, in fact, not equal. Later, Brown fought again against the racially dual systems in the schools, winning yet another case.
    4) http://www.civilrights.org/judiciary/supreme-court/key-cases.html

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  21. 1. Medgar Evers
    2. 1962-1963
    3. Medgar Evers fought for the right of blacks to the same schools as whites.He also investigated crimes committed against blacks and thought of ways to prevent them. He was assassinated on June 12, 1963 at the age of 38 by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Klu Klux Klan.
    4. http://library.thinkquest.org/JO112391/civil_rights_leaders.html

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  22. 1) Events
    2) Civil Rights Act of 1964
    3) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination against certain genders, races, cultures, and etc. This ended the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws didn't allow minorities to do certain activities with the whites. President Lyndon B. Johnson went through President Kennedy's plan with this after he was assassinated. The House of Representatives passed the act on February 10th, 1964.
    4)http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm

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  28. 1) Daisy Bates
    2) 1952-1967
    3) She helped desegregate schools in Arkansas and was apart of NAACP. She joined the NAACP in 1957. She helped the organization by helping schools all across America desegregate and have a better education.
    4)http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=591

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    1. 1) 24th Amendment
      2) January 23, 1964
      3) The 24th Amendment was passed by Lyndon B. Johnson on January 23, 1964. This amendent stated that poll taxing was prohbited in elections for federal officials. This made it difficult for blacks to vote.
      4) Civil Rights and names packet

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    3. 1) 24th Amendment
      2) January 24, 1964
      3) The 24th Amendment was passed by Lyndon B. Johnson on January 24, 1964. This prohibited poll tax requirement of federal officials. With the poll tax, poor blacks could not vote and when the prohibition of the poll tax was made it made it easier for blacks to vote.
      4) Civil Rights packet

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  32. 1) Jackie Robinson
    2) April 15, 1947
    3) Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major leage baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and he helped other African-American play professional sports.
    4) //www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813

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    1. 1)Jackie Robinson
      2)1919-1972
      3)Jackie Robinson broke the barrier between whites and black in the game of baseball. Pee Wee Reese was one of the only people on his team to like him for who he was. When he would come out he would often get booed.
      4)http://www.jackierobinson.com/

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  34. 1) The Little Rock Nine
    2) 1957
    2) The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who were the first African American students to go to school with White people. They started the stop of segregation in public schools of blacks. They showed that we all should and could be treated the same. This was part of the Civil Rights Movement considering the whole thing was about segregation and how it ended.
    4) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

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  35. 1)Lyndon B Johnson
    2)1908-1973
    3)He created the "Great Society" to help all Americans. Those programs made a great impact on health care, education, urban renewal, conservation and civil rights.
    4)http://www.history.com/topics/lyndon-b-johnson

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  36. 1) Charles Houston
    2) 1954
    3) He was a huge contributer to the plan of taking down and defeating the Jim Crow laws. His idea was to present the failure of states using the "seperate but equal" rule which came from the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling. He was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha, which was the first intercollegiate Greek-letter faternity established for African Americans.
    4)http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-charles-hamilton-houston

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  38. 1) Linda Brown
    2) The summer of 1950
    3) Although African American schools were claimed to be "separate but equal", for each $150 spent on white children, African Americans were getting a third of that spent on them. In Topeka, Kansas, Oliver Brown, Linda's father, and a few other parents tried to enroll their children in white schools, but were rejected. When they filed lawsuits, Oliver was the first case named, which is where the name "Brown vs. Board of Education" came in. The case finally won in 1954 on the National level in favor of Linda Brown and other black children to be admitted into white schools.
    4)http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.htm

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  39. 1)Dr.Hector P.Garcia
    2)1914-1996
    3)A teacher once told him "No Mexican will ever make an 'A" in my class"He proved her wrong and became a doctor.He and other Mexican American leaders organizid the American G.I Forum.This improved the veteran's benefits and medical attention for them.Today, the American G.I Forum is in 24 states and still continues to help all American in these areas.
    4)Packet that was given to us

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    2. 1)Dr.Hector P.Garcia
      2)1914-1996
      3)A teacher once told him "No Mexican will ever make an 'A" in my class” He proved her wrong and became a doctor. He and other Mexican American leaders organized the American G.I Forum. This improved the veteran's benefits and medical attention for them. Today, the American G.I Forum is in 24 states and still continues to help all American in these areas.
      4) Packet that was given to us

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  40. If you have been deleted for your spelling, capitalization or fragment sentences, please initially write your post in a Word document and it will help you catch your mistakes.

    The material is on track, the execution of being able to write your information correctly is the main problem.

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  41. James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi

    1962


    President Kennedy sent a few thousand troops to make sure James Meredith got enrolled. It turned into a riot and two people were killed and hundreds were injured.

    http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html

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  42. 1) 24th Ammendment

    2) 1964

    3) The number of African American registered voters increases after poll tax was outlawed by this ammendment. Candidates used the growing number of black voters to their advantage for their campaigns.

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  43. 1)James Farmer Jr
    2)1942
    3)He created an organization called CORE which was meant to be a nonviolent organization to earn equal rights.
    4) the packet is my source

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    1. 1) James Farmer Jr.
      2) 1942
      3) He was put in jail for 40 days but he refused to give up. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clenton. His acts played a major role on equal rights and he never gave up.
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  44. 1) Malcolm X
    2) 1925-1965
    3) He was a black leader. He was afraid that the blacks would lose their control of their movements. He was frustrated with all the non-violet struggle for them. Later on February of 1965 the Nation of Islam killed him even though he was a speaker for them. They had betrayed him. Even though he had died his ambitions in life went on.
    4) www.shmoop.com

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  45. 1) President Dwight Eisenhower
    2) 1957
    3) President Eisenhower let the little rock nine into the high school. In order to do it though he he had to send federal troops with them to protect them.

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  47. 1) Person
    2) Ruby Bridges
    3)1960?-1964?
    4)Ruby Bridges was the first African - American child to enroll into an all-white elementary school on November 1, 1960. She also was the only African –American child to pass the test and being enrolled into William Frantz Elementary School .She was escorted by federal marshals to and from school everyday. She would have two marshals in the front and two behind her everywhere she went near William Frantz Elementary School. On her way to school one day she recognizes a woman with a small coffin with a black doll inside it. She was scared by it but wasn’t going to stop going to school because of it.
    5)http://www.biography.com/people/ruby-bridges-475426?page=1#escorted-by-federal-marshals

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  48. 1)Event
    2)1957
    3)Arkansas governor, Faubus, couldn’t enforce the order of education desegregation. He called Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending “all white” schools. President Eisenhower took charge over the National Guard and enforced attendance of the students.
    4)http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civalrights1.htm

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  49. 1.) Pete Hernandez v. State of Texas
    2.) 1950
    3.) Pete Hernandez, a migrant cotton picker, was accused of the murder of Joe Espinosa from Edna, Texas. When he was trialed, he was found guilty from an all white jury. He argued that it wasn't fair that people discriminated Mexican Americans by not letting them in the jury. He said the the 14th Amendment guaranteed protection not only on basis of race but class. But the public disagreed saying that the 14th Amendment only applied to race and that an all white jury was a complete coincidence. However, Chief Justice Earl Warren agreed with Pete and reversed his punishment. Then the public finally said that Mexican Americans were "the other white" and the jury was strictly chosen by behavior, not race.
    4.)http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jrh01
    and my packet

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  50. Albany Movement (event)
    1961-1962
    This movement was very important in the Civil Rights Era. It led to 1,000 people going to jail, including Martin Luther King JR. This movement wanted to help desegregate all races and to get all the races to have the same rights. The president of this movement was William G. Anderson.
    http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1057

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  51. 1) Event:
    2)May 17, 1954
    3) Brown V. Board of Education

    4) This Supreme Court Decision stated that the 1896 Plessy V. Ferguson case 'Seperate but Equal' was unconstitutional by seperating kids in schools by the color of their skin; and it played a major role in ending legal segregation.

    5) http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=87

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  52. 1) Event
    2) 1902-1964
    3) In 1901, Texas put a poll tax on people to vote. This tax costs $1.75 to be able to vote in elections and then, in 1902, became a constitutional amendment. Sadly, most African and Mexican Americans were poor and could not pay the poll tax. In Texas, many African and Mexican Americans organized “pay your poll tax” drives and helped those who had no money to pay the poll tax. Then, in January 23, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the 24th Amendment that said that it was prohibited to put a poll tax on elections
    4) http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/6_5_3.html

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  53. 1) Linda Brown (Brown v. Board of Education)
    2) She fought the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education in the Supreme Court. Her case helped young black students get a better education.
    3)http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.htm

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  54. 1) Person
    2) Rosa Parks
    3) 1955
    4) Rosa Parks was coming home from work on December 1st, 1955. When the whites section was filling up the bus driver told 4 colored people to move, well 3 colored males moved but Rosa Parks did not. Rosa did not get up and move because she was protecting her rights and herself. Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section. All Rosa Parks was doing was standing up for her people, her, and her rights.
    5) A quote from Rosa Parks herself: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it."

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  55. 1) Martin Luther king Jr.
    2) 1929 - 1968
    3) Martin Luther went to segregated public schools in Georgia. He Graduated from high school at the age of 15. He also got a B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College.
    http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

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  56. 1)Event
    2)Montgomery Bus Boycott
    3)Started December 1st, 1955- Ended November 13th, 1956
    4)This event was started when blacks decided to boycott city buses until they could sit where they wanted, not in the 5th row or further back. This problem first arose when a lady named Rosa Parks was arrested for not moving back when a white man boarded the bus and resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation unconstitutional 1 year later.
    5)http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrrights-55-56/montbus.htm

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  57. 1) Person
    2) Jesse Jackson
    3) 1941-Present
    4) Jesse Jackson worked along side Martin Luther King Jr. to improve equal rights for blacks. He later ran for president.
    5) rainbowpush.org/pages/jackson_bio

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  58. 1)Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
    2)1948
    3)Mexican Americans won cases against those who show racial and religious intolerance making it illegal to split school a school building up into Mexican Americans only.
    4)Packet

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  59. 1) Meyer v. Nebraska
    2) 1923
    3) Because the ban ( a foreign language instruction in private school ) violated The Fourteenth Amendment, It prohibited all pre-eighth grade foreign language instruction.
    4) http://www.civilrights.org/judiciary/supreme-court/key-cases.html

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  60. 1) John F. Kennedy
    2) 1961-1963
    3) JFK wanted to desegregate all of the schools, hotels, restrooms, and even water fountains.
    4)http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights-Movement.aspx

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  61. 1. Coretta Scott King
    2. 1927-2006
    3. Coretta fought for Martin Luther King jr. day, which actually started in 1985. After her husband died she carried out his life fighting for her rights and finished his projects.
    4. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1154673,00.html

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    1. 1) Coretta Scott King
      2) 1927-2006
      3) Labled one of the most influential women of all time, she did not just speak out for civil rights. Her other main speaking roles were for gay and lesbian rights.
      4) www.thekingxenter.org/about-mrs-king

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    2. Kenton,
      Please correct your capitalization issue for full credit.
      -Mrs. Buchanan

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  62. 1)Organization
    2)LULAC
    3)1929-Present
    4)LULAC was specificaly founded to give Mexican Americans rights. LULAC helped with many different civil right acts and movements. LULAC especially helped with Hernandez v. State of Texas in 1954.

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  63. 1.) Pete Hernandez v. State of Texas
    2.) 1950
    3.) Pete Hernandez, a migrant cotton picker, was accused of the murder of Joe Espinosa from Edna, Texas. When he was tried, he was found guilty from an all white jury. He argued that it wasn't fair that people discriminated Mexican Americans by not letting them in the jury. He said the the 14th Amendment guaranteed protection not only on basis of race but class. But the public disagreed saying that the 14th Amendment only applied to race and that an all white jury was a complete coincidence. However, Chief Justice Earl Warren agreed with Pete and reversed his punishment. Then the public finally said that Mexican Americans were "the other white" and the jury was strictly chosen by behavior, not race.
    4.)http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jrh01
    and my packet

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  64. 1)Poll Tax Drives
    2)It started in 1901
    3)Poll Tax Drives had to do with the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.The Poll Tax required voters to pay $1.75 in order to vote.This regulated that people had to spend money in order to vote.
    4)Civil Rights Movement Packet

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  65. 1. Poll Tax Drives.
    2. January 23, 1964.
    3. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the 24th amendment that prohibited the requirement of paying a poll tax to vote in federal election.
    4. Civil Rights Movement packet.

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  66. 1. Coretta Scott King
    2.1927-2006
    3.Coretta fought for Martin Luther king Jr. day, which started in 1985. After her husband died she carried out his life fighting for civil rights and finished his projects
    4.http://www.time.com/nation/article/0,8599,1154673,00html

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  67. The blog is closed.

    Have a great weekend.
    -Mrs. Buchanan

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