Katy Peck B2

Table of Contents

Post 1. Bibliography


Post 2. What Are Civil Rights


Post 3. Timeline


Post 4. Organization Page


Post 5. Summary



Post 6. Words Page



Post 7. Fact vs. Opinion



Post 8. Information Page

Bibliography

"The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963" By Christopher Paul Curtis
www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeling1.html
www.civilrightstimeline.com

What Are Civil Rights?

Civil rights are the rights of individuals to be treated equally in education, housing, and employment. People were also judged on their gender, age, race, and religion. African Americans didn't have the same rights that white people had. They had to use different drinking facilities, restaurants, bathrooms, and they had to sit at the back of the bus behind a white line. They weren't treated the same as the white people were treated. They were the white people's slaves. The African American didn't get to vote for a long time too, but when they did they only got three votes for every five men that voted. At that time woman couldn't vote either so there wasn't a good chance they would get who they voted for. Civil rights are important. They made it so you could be treated equally no matter the color of your skin.

Time Line

August, 1955
A fourteen year old colored boy is kidnapped in Mississippi while visiting his family. He is beaten, shot, and dumped in a river for whistling at a white woman.

December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "Colored Section" of a bus to a white passenger.

Rosa Parks on the bus

January-February 1957
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership conference.

May 4, 1961
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips to the south to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities.

October 1, 1962
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

August 28, 1963

About 200,000 people join the March in Washington. Congregrating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen to Martin Luther King Jr give his amazing "I Have a Dream" speech.

Martin Luther King Jr giving his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

Organization Page

I organized my project with sequential and descriptive. I organized it this way because it is easier to see what I did if it is in a list or very descriptive so the readers understand.

Summary

In the book the Watsons take a trip to visit their grandma in Birmingham. There was terrible people in Birmingham. People were so racist they bombed a church that had four little African American girls inside who were killed. A lot of people were badly injured. As I have created my project I have learned that black people were badly treated. They couldn't use the same bathrooms or drinking fountains as the white people. If they did one thing wrong the white people would throw them in jail, beat them, or do other terrible things to them. We watched a movie as a class about Birmingham and it showed all the terrible racism going on then. People hated the blacks strongly. They treated them like they were worth nothing. African Americans were slaves and if they did something wrong their masters could do anything with them. They were very strong people who stood up for what was right.