Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
-Pastor in AL
-Civil Rights activists voted king as leader
-"I have a dream" speech in 1963
-Worked for Civil Rights Act
-Congressed passed Civil Rights in 1964
-King received Nobel Peace Prize
-Killed by assassins bullet April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tenn
Malcolm X 1925-1965
-Was in prison 1946-1952 for burgulary
-Converted to Muslim- "Black Muslim"
-Believed in black separatism
-Took name "X" as lost African name
-Rivarly between X and Nation of Islam because of X's disagreement w Elijah Muhammad
-Started his own organization for all races to Muslims
-Feb 21, 1965 he was shot by his own group as he spoke at a rally in Harlem.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Protect Ourselves Transcript of 1964 Tv Interview with Malcom X
-X believes in talking face to face rather than doing something constructive for the benefit of the people
-X also believes Negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
-X questions if government and FBI respects Negors
-Also believes Negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community
-X also believes Negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
-X questions if government and FBI respects Negors
-Also believes Negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community
Stride Toward Freedom Non-Fiction by Martin Luther King Jr.
-life of opressed; they adjusted by being silent
-to accept passively is unjust
-religion reminds everyone of their rights; moral
-can adjust by being viloent
-violence to acheive racial justice is impratical and immoral(emphasises hate rather than love); seeks humiliate oppent rather than win his understanding
-violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness
-or to adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of two opposites
-W/nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right and wrong
-not black vs. white but justic vs. injustice
-to accept passively is unjust
-religion reminds everyone of their rights; moral
-can adjust by being viloent
-violence to acheive racial justice is impratical and immoral(emphasises hate rather than love); seeks humiliate oppent rather than win his understanding
-violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness
-or to adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of two opposites
-W/nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right and wrong
-not black vs. white but justic vs. injustice
Ballad of Birmingham Poem by Dudley Randall
Ballad-narrative poem that was orginally meant to be sung
The poem was about a mother letting her daughter go to church. She hears her explosing and fids her daughters shoe. Robert Chambliss blew up the Street Baptist Church killing four girls.
The poem was about a mother letting her daughter go to church. She hears her explosing and fids her daughters shoe. Robert Chambliss blew up the Street Baptist Church killing four girls.
Coming of Age in Mississippi autobiography by Anne Moody
-1963 she was with the NAACP
-She was asked to be on a sitin at Woolwroth's.
-2 other people were with her.
-As they sat ther epeople left and news crews came.
-White people came in and chant anti-Negro slurs
-Make nooses and attempt to put them around their necks
-When they started to pray all hell broke loose.
-They were slapped and push to the ground
-Memphis was arrested, but the two girls stayed.
-One man came to sit with them and he was white
-As they were being haresses more Lois Chaffee joined them. Two whites, and two negros all women.
-Food was thrown all them.
0John Salter came, but got a jaw wound
-Geroge Raymond and a student was joined also.
-The police would not escort them out.
-Anne went to get her hair done and the hairdresses let her cut in front of everyone
-That night there was a rally about the whole day. there was appaluded and talked about how this is just a beginning.
-She was asked to be on a sitin at Woolwroth's.
-2 other people were with her.
-As they sat ther epeople left and news crews came.
-White people came in and chant anti-Negro slurs
-Make nooses and attempt to put them around their necks
-When they started to pray all hell broke loose.
-They were slapped and push to the ground
-Memphis was arrested, but the two girls stayed.
-One man came to sit with them and he was white
-As they were being haresses more Lois Chaffee joined them. Two whites, and two negros all women.
-Food was thrown all them.
0John Salter came, but got a jaw wound
-Geroge Raymond and a student was joined also.
-The police would not escort them out.
-Anne went to get her hair done and the hairdresses let her cut in front of everyone
-That night there was a rally about the whole day. there was appaluded and talked about how this is just a beginning.
The Gettysburg Address speech by Abraham Lincoln
-Gettysburg was the turning point for the civil war.
-the confederate army need shoes. they had to go to Gettysburg, Penn to get them.
-They came upon the Union Army
-they fought for three days july 1 to the 3 1863
-union won but many died
-28,000 for donfederate 23,000 for union
-nov 19 1863 lincoln give this speech
repition-recurrance of words, phrases or lines
-the confederate army need shoes. they had to go to Gettysburg, Penn to get them.
-They came upon the Union Army
-they fought for three days july 1 to the 3 1863
-union won but many died
-28,000 for donfederate 23,000 for union
-nov 19 1863 lincoln give this speech
repition-recurrance of words, phrases or lines
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Style-not what said, but how it is aid. Style can be describe as formal or conversational, concise or elebroate, objective or subjectie. (figurative language, tone sentence length)
-he talks about his mater Mr. Covey
-He got sold by his master to be mr. covery for one year.
-first six months with him were hell
-one day he gets really sick while working and falls to the gournd
-mr. covey tells him to get up, but he can't
-he thens proceeds to beat him and hims him bleed form the head.
-he runs away goig to his old master
-he tells him of what covey is doing, but doesn't believe him
-while walking back the next day he meets this guy that takes him to go see his gf
-she tell shim to keep a root on his right side and it will protect him
-he goes sat morning and when he gets there covey sees him and runs after him
-he gets away and hides in the corn for the day
-the next day as he is doing horse chores covey comes up ready to whip him
=he doesn't let him and starts to fight him.
-he calls to Hughes, but fred drops kicks him and bill doesn't help either
-they go at if for two hours. finally covey gives up
-he was a slave for four more years but he was never beaten again.
-he talks about his mater Mr. Covey
-He got sold by his master to be mr. covery for one year.
-first six months with him were hell
-one day he gets really sick while working and falls to the gournd
-mr. covey tells him to get up, but he can't
-he thens proceeds to beat him and hims him bleed form the head.
-he runs away goig to his old master
-he tells him of what covey is doing, but doesn't believe him
-while walking back the next day he meets this guy that takes him to go see his gf
-she tell shim to keep a root on his right side and it will protect him
-he goes sat morning and when he gets there covey sees him and runs after him
-he gets away and hides in the corn for the day
-the next day as he is doing horse chores covey comes up ready to whip him
=he doesn't let him and starts to fight him.
-he calls to Hughes, but fred drops kicks him and bill doesn't help either
-they go at if for two hours. finally covey gives up
-he was a slave for four more years but he was never beaten again.
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