The Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King Jr. & Rosa Parks

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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. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

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.

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.

What do you

already know about Martin Luther King Jr.?

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

Born: January 15, 1929, Atlanta, GeorgiaAssassinated: 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.

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

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

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

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, AlabamaDied: October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan

What would you have done

in Rosa Parks's situation?

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

What have you learned this lesson?