The civil rights movement - Martin Luther King Jr. & Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
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This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

time-iconLesson duration is: 15 min

Introduction

A lesson focussing on the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr.

Instructions

This lesson encourages your students to reflect on the life of Martin Luther King. Jr. With information and engaging activities, your pupils are sure to take in all the information on this significant historical figure. 

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Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

Slide 1 - Slide

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What are you going to learn?





- What the civil rights movement is,
- Who Martin Luther King Jr. was,
- Who Rosa Parks was,
- Why they are important to history.

Slide 2 - Slide

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What's the civil rights movement?





The 1954–1968 civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their allies to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.

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What do you
already know about Martin Luther King Jr.?

Slide 4 - Mind map

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Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Born: January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia
Assassinated: April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Studies theology
  • Promoted to Doctor
  • Becomes a minister
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955): helped organize the first major protest of the African American civil rights movement.
March on Washington (1963) for Jobs and Freedom & King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Listen to the speech.

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Before getting involved in the civil rights movement, what was Martin Luther King Jr.'s job?
A
Doctor
B
Reverend
C
Social Security Act
D
Voter's Rights Act

Slide 6 - Quiz

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What legislation was passed in 1964 as a result of the March on Washington?
A
Disabilities Act
B
Civil Rights Act
C
Social Security Act
D
Voter's Rights Act

Slide 7 - Quiz

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Describe in your own words what Martin Luther King Jr. believed in?

Slide 8 - Open question

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Who is
Rosa Parks?
In December 1943, Parks became active in the civil rights movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected secretary.
Parks being fingerprinted by a cop on February 22, 1956, when she was arrested again after a grand jury indicted 113 African Americans for organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery.
Born: February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama
Died: October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan

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Slide 10 - Video

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What would you have done
in Rosa Parks's situation?

Slide 11 - Open question

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What do Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks have in common?

Slide 12 - Open question

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Drag the events in the correct order.
1948
1955
1963
1965

Slide 13 - Drag question

Question:
Drag the events in the correct order.

Answer:
1848: President Truman desegregated the army.
1955: Rosa Park's action starts the Montgomery bus boycott.
1963: Martin Luther King Jr. leads the March on Washington 
1965: President Johnson signs the voting rights act.
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated.

What have you learned this lesson?

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Slide 15 - Poll

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Aardappeloproer
1917



Enkele Amsterdamse vrouwen zagen dat er een schip vol aardappelen in een van de grachten lag. Ze gingen erop af en plunderden het schip: hun schorten vol aardappelen. De dag erna waren er meer plunderaars. Pas nadat zes mensen door het leger werden doodgeschoten, keerde de rust terug

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