Rights-Writing JournalWhat rights do you have as an American citizen? What gives us these rights? How would you react if someone tried to take your rights away? What could you do?

Civil Rights Powerpoint

14th Amendment

Montgomery Bus Boycott

I Have a Dream

Rosa Parks

We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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.--

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Disobedience

Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equal

How “equal” do these schools look?What is your impression of each of the schools? Which would you rather go to, and why?

Segregated Schools

Brown vs. Board of Ed: Separate is inherently unequal

Integration of Little Rock High School, 1957

Poem Analysis- Emmett Till

I hear a whistling Through the water. Little Emmett Won't be still. He keeps floating Round the darkness, Edging through The silent chill. Tell me, please, That bedtime story Of the fairy River Boy Who swims forever, Deep in treasures, Necklaced in A coral toy.-James Emanuel

* In 1955, Till, a fourteen-year-old from Chicago, for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, was murdered by white men who threw his body into the Tallahatchie River.

Making an Argument• Argument- taking a position on an issue and

providing support using reason• Claim- the position or opinion you’re trying to prove• Support- reasons and evidence proving claimRhetorical Devices• Repetition- repeating the same word or phrase for

emphasis• Parallelism- repeating the same grammatical

structures to show ideas are related• Analogy- comparison between two things with

something in common, helps convey abstract ideas

Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”“…And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character….”