Racial Justice Timeline: 1965-2020
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Black History Resources 6-8
Teacher Guide by Liane Hicks and Rebecca Ray
Students can research the issues that led up to the Civil Rights Movement, and discuss ideas like equality, racism, segregation, and intolerance. A discussion of this sort is also a good segue into talking/learning about different groups that have been discriminated against in the past or present.
Black History Resources 9-12
Teacher Guide by Liane Hicks and Rebecca Ray
Students can choose an important person from history and do a storyboard biography about them and their contribution to equality and/or society. They could also analyze Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Storyboard Description
Create a visual narrative timeline of racial justice in the United States.
Storyboard Text
- MARCH 1965: SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCHES AND BLOODY SUNDAY
- AUGUST 1965: VOTING RIGHTS ACT
- "a great step forward in removing all of the remaining obstacles to the right to vote." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- APRIL 4, 1968: MLK ASSASSINATED
- "I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land."- Martin Luther King, Jr. in his last speech, April 3, 1968, Memphis TN
- APRIL 11, 1968: FAIR HOUSING ACT
- Equal Housing Opportunity FOR SALE
- 1972: SHIRLEY CHISHOLM RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
- If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
- Marches protested segregation, police brutality, voter suppression, and the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. On March 7th, John Lewis led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and met brutal attacks by police. Video of the violence shocked the nation, spurring the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
- 1978: AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONand THE BAKKE DECISION
- The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Johnson in August 1965 to enforce the 15th Amendment, explicitly saying that obstacles that prevent people from voting are against federal law. It aimed to prohibit racial discrimination in voting at the state and local level.
- 1984: JESSE JACKSON RUNS FOR PRESIDENT1986: OPRAH WINFREY LAUNCHES TALK SHOW
- "Now is the time!"
- "For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way"
- Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated a day after giving a speech about racial and economic injustice. His death sparked a wave of protests and riots, which were said to be the greatest social unrest since the Civil War.
- 2008/2012: BARACK OBAMA IS THE 44th PRESIDENT
- "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or . . . some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."-President Barack Obama, 2008
- The Fair Housing Act protects people when they are renting or buying a home or getting a mortgage or housing assistance from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, familial status, or disability.
- JULY 13 2013: MURDERER OF TRAYVON MARTIN AQUITTED and BLM FOUNDED
- Shirley Chisholm was the first Black major-party candidate to run for President of the U.S. during the 1972 U.S. presidential election. She was the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
- SUMMER 2020: GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS
- BLACKLIVESMATTER
- Affirmative Action is a set of procedures designed to eliminate illegal discrimination against applicants for a school or job, remedy historic discrimination, and prevent further discrimination. The Bakke decision agreed that a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was constitutional.
- Reverend Jesse Jackson is a civil rights activist and politician. In 1984, he became the second African American to run for President. Oprah Winfrey launched her talk show in 1986, which ran for 25 years. She is also an actress, philanthropist, and the first female African American billionaire.
- In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States after running on a campaign of racial, social, and economic equality. He was re-elected in 2012.
- Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old, was shot on February 26, 2012. His murderer was acquitted on July 13, 2013. Black Lives Matter formed in the wake of this miscarriage of justice to protest against incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against Black people.
- George Floyd was killed by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, adding another to the long list of victims of police brutality and racism. The killing was recorded and viewed by the public. It set off a wave of protests throughout the summer of 2020 calling for justice and systemic change.
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