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

Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
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History9th Grade9-12 Grade

In deze les zitten 16 slides, met interactieve quizzen, tekstslides en 1 video.

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

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

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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 - Tekstslide

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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.

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 4 - Woordweb

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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.

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

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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 - Quizvraag

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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 - Quizvraag

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

Slide 8 - Open vraag

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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

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

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Slide 10 - Video

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

Slide 11 - Open vraag

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

Slide 12 - Open vraag

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

Slide 13 - Sleepvraag

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?

Slide 14 - Open vraag

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Slide 15 - Poll

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Slide 16 - Tekstslide

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