10 amendment
Stokely Carmicheal
"Black power!"
JFK
Civil Rights Address
JFK
" This is one country. Has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents."
JFK
"...It ought to be possible... for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops."
MLK
"America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
Martin Luther King
"And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent."
Stokely carmichael
"But we understand how the honkies are - they don't recognize their own racism."
Lincon
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty."
August 28, 1963
"I Have a Dream" Speech was spoken by MLK (Washington, DC) on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This was the March on Washington. He was also a Baptist minister like his father.
Martin Luther King Jr.-
"I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
Malcom X
"I am asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public - hotels, restaurants, theaters, etc."
MLK
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
April 3, 1968
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech (MLK's last speech) in Memphis, TN. He was there to support the black sanitation workers who were on strike due to unfair wages and being called "boy."
MLK
"If I had sneezed."
RFK
"Let us say a prayer for our country and our people."
MLK Jr.
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!"
Malcom X
"So I have to stand here today as what I was when I was born: A black man."
Lincon
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
Stockly
"The only word is 'negro' and they named us 'negro' and put with it the adjectives that they have: lazy, stupid, apathetic, loves watermelon, has good rhythm."
Malcom X
"They worked from sunup until sundown - - from can't see in the morning until can't see at night."
Malocm X
"This is what he does...."
Stokely
"We Ain't Going"
RFK
"We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we - - and we will have difficult times in the future."
RFK
"We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another."
Malcom X
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.
JFK
All citizens of the country need to support equality, civil rights adress
Logos
Facts, information
June 20, 1964
Freedom Summer began with the deaths of three men - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner (Mississippi Burning)
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address and his 2nd Inauguration remarks
November 23, 1963
JFK assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald (Dallas, TX)
June 11, 1963
JFK gave the Civil Rights Address which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was the first Catholic president elected.
July 2, 1964
LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act, finally
March 4, 1865
Lincoln gave his 2nd Inaugural Address which was during the last days of the Civil War and only one month before he was killed. It was a somber speech about the devastating war.
January 1, 1863
Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort.
April 14, 1865
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater in Wash
April 4, 1968
MLK assassination by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel
February 21, 1965
Malcolm X assassination by 3 Nation of Islam brothers (Manhattan, NYC). He was once a Baptist, then turned Muslim (NOI) and then back to peaceful protest after the trip to Mecca.
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, it landed on us!"
Malcom X The movie speech
Love, Wisdom, and Compassion
RFK - remarks on MLK's assassination
June 6, 1968
RFK assassination by Sirhan Sirhan (Los Angeles, CA)
April 4, 1968
RFK's unplanned speech about MLK's assassination (Indianapolis, IN) where he quoted a Greek poet. No one rioted because of this speech.
rfk
The country is divided and we need to trust God to lead us to peace, speech on the assassination of mlk
Fannie Lou Hammer
We as a group of people are tired of being treated this way.
Pathos
emotion
Fannie Lou Hamer
famous quote: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
ethos
is when an argument is constructed based on the ethics or credibility of the person making the argument
Malcolm X
opening lines to the Movie & "It's Either the Ballot or the Bullet"
RFK
remarks on MLK's assassination
