Oral Presentations for English
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- Freedom Rides
- were used to compel the new Kennedy administration to enforce the 1960 US Supreme Cout ruling that made segregation og bus terminals and stations serving interstate travel unconstitutional
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- is the Supreme Court case that upheld state laws providing "serperate but equal" accomodations for blacks
- A. Phillip Randolph
- organized the first black union to negotiate the successfully for bettwe conditions with white employers
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- is the organization that led lunch-counter sit-ins during the 1960's
- Booker T. Washington
- was the president of the Tuskegee Insatitute and believed that blacks should first achieve economic success rather than fight for civil rights and changes in the law
- Langston Hughes
- wrote Weary Blues and "A Dream Deferred: and lived in the harlem
- Central High
- is the name of the Arkansas high school that wwas integrates by Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, and seven other black teenagers
- Louis Armstrong
- was a famous trumpet player as know as Satchmo
- Harlem Renaissance
- is the name of the great artistic and literary movement that occured in New York City in the earlly part of the 20th century
- Spirituals
- were sung by slaves to help them express their thoughts and faith, They gave slaves hope and served as a form of resistance against their masters
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- is the name of the First Lady who resigned her membership in the DAR in protest when that organization refused to allow an African American singer perform at Constitution Hall
- Daisy Bates
- is the name of the African American activist who helped Ernest Green, Elizabeth Ekford, and other black teenageers to integrate an all-white high school
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- used religion to help motivate and inspire people during the Civil Rights Movement
- Ida B. Wells
- led a successful canpaign agaisnt lynchings of Africans Americans; helped fight for women's rights and civil rights
- 1954
- was the year that the US supreme court decided that segregated schools was unconstitutional
- Thurgood Marshall
- was the lead lawyer in the case to desegregate schools and later became the first African American justice of the U.S. supreme court
- Jackie Robinson
- was the talented and courageous athlete who "broke the color barrier" in major league baseball, becoming the first African American to plau in the previously all-white league
- Brown vs, Board of Education
- was the U.S. supreme Court case that declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional
- W.E.B. Dubois
- was one of the founders of the NAACP and believed that blacks should fight for civil rights and changes in the law, rather than waiting, and disagrees stringly with the president of the Tuskegee Institute
- Mariam Anderson
- performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1938 before a crowd of 75,000
- Jim Crow Laws
- was the name given to the segregation laws that seperated blacks and whites throughout the south and elsewhere in the country
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- is the name of the union with A, Phillip Randolph
- Brooklyn Dodgers
- was the name of the first major league baseball team to be integrated
- Countee Cullen
- author of COlor who was influenced by the classical style of poets like Keats
- Selma March
- is the name of the march protestinf discriminatory voting practices; helped pave the wat for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act