Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963

Your big questions about race, answered Mississippi Burning - Tasks Pre reading: The following is a quote taken from the film, Mississippi Burning. Mayor Tilma: “Do you like baseball, do you, Anderson?” Agent Anderson: “Yeah, I do. You know, it's the only time when a black man can wave a stick at a white man and not start a riot.” With a partner discuss your interpretation of this quote. Historical Background The mysterious circumstances surrounding a case in 1964 of the disappearance and eventual murders of three civil rights workers is the backdrop for this powerful film produced in 1988. As this was a time of great tension and unrest, due to the advancement of the Civil Rights Movement, there was massive media coverage and the FBI was called in to investigate. A Northerner and a Southerner The two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem DaFoe) couldn’t be more different from one another and their approaches to solving the murders set them apart. Tasks and Activities Watch the trailer for Mississippi Burning and then answer the questions below. Comprehension Mrs.

I've watched a lot of handsomely paid CEOs get on stages for keynote presentations over the past decade, and none were as good as the one I saw Elon Musk give Thursday night in California as he introduced Tesla's new battery system. I'm sure many people will disagree — I mean, how can you compete with Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone in 2007 — but ultimately Jobs was selling a better smartphone. Musk is selling a better future. I'm not saying Musk is going to succeed, or that you should go buy Tesla's battery. Dude's selling a battery and he still managed to be inspiring Here's what I loved about Musk's presentation. But aside from all the technical details I enjoyed, what I liked most was Musk's humble tenor. Take notes, suits of Silicon Valley. Related Items solar battery keynote tesla elon musk tesla energy

Lesson of the Day: ‘How Black Lives Matter Reached Every Corner of America’ Find all our Lessons of the Day here. Featured Article: “How Black Lives Matter Reached Every Corner of America” The killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May while in police custody in Minneapolis, has incited protests across the country and around the world. Some demonstrations against police violence and racial injustice are still taking place months later. In this lesson, you will investigate a not-so-distant moment in history and use more than 200 photographs to learn about how the protests spread from Minneapolis across the country between May 26 and June 9. Look at just the top of the featured article, without scrolling down. What do you notice about the images, text and map? As you read the article and look at the photographs and maps, use these writing and discussion questions to help guide you. 1. On any given day, they spill out onto the streets, driven by fury.They march. What is your reaction to this introduction? 2. What is going on in this picture? 3. 4. 5.

Civil Rights for Kids: African-American Civil Rights Movement History >> Civil Rights for Kids March on Washington Aug 28, 1963from the United States Information Agency The African-American Civil Rights Movement was an ongoing fight for racial equality that took place for over 100 years after the Civil War. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, and Rosa Parks paved the way for non-violent protests which led to changes in the law. Background The Civil Rights Movement has its background in the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Drinking Fountain by John Vachon After the Civil War, many southern states continued to treat African-Americans as second class citizens. In the early 1900s, black people began to protest the Jim Crow laws that southern states were implementing to enforce segregation. The Movement Grows The civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was illegal in the case of Brown v.

The Color Line - Zinn Education Project Attack on Apalachicola River. The fort had provided home and safety to more than 300 African and Choctaw families. Painting by Jackson Walker, Museum of Florida Art. Colonial laws prohibiting Black and white people from marrying one another suggest that some Black and white people did marry. The social elites of early America sought to manufacture racial divisions. Find more remote-ready lessons here and refer to our remote teaching guide. Individuals’ different skin colors were not sufficient to keep these people apart if they came to see their interests in common. Because today’s racial divisions run so deep and can seem so normal, providing students an historical framework can be enlightening. Classroom Stories The Color Line lesson is one of my all-time favorite middle-school social studies lessons. It gets to the heart of a core issue in U.S. history and contemporary politics: “divide and conquer” tactics, which elites use to maintain power and control. —Rachel Stone

Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Victory for Civil Rights – Speakeasy News Sixty years ago, on 20 December, 1956, Martin Luther King and his fellow campaigners won a first victory in the long battle for African-American civil rights. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which had begun when Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, finally ended after 381 days, when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation illegal. But Rosa Parks wasn’t the first African American woman to refuse to give up her seat in a Montgomery bus. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on 1 December, 1955. In the previous year, four other women had refused to move seats. Colvin was arrested. But Colvin wasn’t forgotten. Boycott When Rosa Parks, a middle-aged, eminently respectable NAACP activist refused to move to the back of the bus, this time the community felt it had found its spokesperson. In parallel, the NAACP decided it was time to challenge bus segregation in court. Webpicks Useful websites and online tools for classroom use > African American History on the Web

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality Racial segregation in public education has been illegal for 65 years in the United States. Yet American public schools remain largely separate and unequal — with profound consequences for students, especially students of color. Today’s teachers and students should know that the Supreme Court declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional in the landmark 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education. Perhaps less well known is the extent to which American schools are still segregated. Although many students learn about the historical struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum. “No one is really talking about school segregation anymore,” Elise C. The teaching activities below, written directly to students, use recent Times articles as a way to grapple with segregation and educational inequality in the present. • How and why are schools still segregated in 2019?

Internet Connection Is Civil Right, German Court Rules | Disinformation In the near future, in certain regions of the world, denying someone internet will be considered a barbaric, criminal act. Computer World UK reports: Internet access is crucial to everyday life and the loss of connectivity is deserving of financial compensation, the German Federal Court of Justice has ruled. 0Share 8Share Miseducation By Lena V. Groeger, Annie Waldman and David Eads, October 16, 2018 Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. Look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 districts to see how they compare with their counterparts. About Our Data | Related Story | Local Stories Measure Opportunity Discipline Segregation Achievement Gap School districts where White students are more likely to be in an Advanced Placement class or gifted and talented program, compared with Black students. Note: When unified school districts do not exist, we display secondary school districts. Nationally, White students are 1.8 times as likely as Black students to be in an Advanced Placement class. 50.6M Students | 3.22M Teachers | 17.3K Districts | 96.4K Schools | 334 Districts Under Desegregation Order All States

untitled Race and Incarceration – The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights The statistics on race and incarceration in the United States present a disturbing picture of a criminal justice system that in which people of color are vastly overrepresented and face harsher penalties than their white peers. According to the Sentencing Project, 1 in 3 black men and 1 in 6 Latino men is likely to spend time in prison in their lifetime, as compared to 1 in 17 white men. This racial disparity also exists for women–while 1 in 111 white women will spend time in prison, for Latina women this likelihood is increased to 1 in 45 and for black women 1 in 18. The Prison Policy Initiative breaks down racial disparity by state, and shows that although black Americans make up 13% of the population, they account for 40% of the incarcerated population. This stark racial disparity in our prisons is the result of deeply rooted racial bias and public policy initiatives that triggered an explosion of the United States prison population.