How Did Martin Luther King Show Courage Related To The Civil Rights Movement
1. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. He was given death threats and called names in every ball park and managed to keep his cool most of the time.
2. Abraham Lincoln after he won the war he created the thirteenth amendment which abolished slavery.
3. Martin Luther King was a peaceful leader for African American civil rights movement. “I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
4. Malcom x was a leader for African Americans who believed that the white man is the devil. They must defend themselves by any means necessary.
5. Rosa Parks would not move to the back of a bus and was arrested. That started the Montgomery bus boycott.
6. Mamie Till son was …show more content…
NWA was a popular rap group that sang about their frustrations with police brutality in black neighborhoods.
9. Andrew Goodman participated in a march in 1958 to integrate schools he also participated in the march on Washington in 1963.he volunteered at program to help African Americans in Mississippi.
10. Marcus Garvey promoted black nationalism. He also encouraged blacks to become independent and self-sufficient doing more business in the black community.
11. Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964 which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. He also appointed the first black supreme court justice.
12. Colin Kaepernick is a NFL player who won’t stand for the national anthem "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." Now some player across the league are sitting in protest with him with makes me believe he is starting a new movement.
13. Thurgood Marshall was the director of the NAACP legal defense fund he won major case in brown v. board which desegregated public schools. He was later appointed the first black supreme court
2. Abraham Lincoln after he won the war he created the thirteenth amendment which abolished slavery.
3. Martin Luther King was a peaceful leader for African American civil rights movement. “I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
4. Malcom x was a leader for African Americans who believed that the white man is the devil. They must defend themselves by any means necessary.
5. Rosa Parks would not move to the back of a bus and was arrested. That started the Montgomery bus boycott.
6. Mamie Till son was …show more content…
NWA was a popular rap group that sang about their frustrations with police brutality in black neighborhoods.
9. Andrew Goodman participated in a march in 1958 to integrate schools he also participated in the march on Washington in 1963.he volunteered at program to help African Americans in Mississippi.
10. Marcus Garvey promoted black nationalism. He also encouraged blacks to become independent and self-sufficient doing more business in the black community.
11. Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964 which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. He also appointed the first black supreme court justice.
12. Colin Kaepernick is a NFL player who won’t stand for the national anthem "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." Now some player across the league are sitting in protest with him with makes me believe he is starting a new movement.
13. Thurgood Marshall was the director of the NAACP legal defense fund he won major case in brown v. board which desegregated public schools. He was later appointed the first black supreme court