Blog Discusion
Marcus Garvy--racial pride, universal negro improvement legue, african communities legue
boody sunday--march 7, 1965, civil rights marchers attacked by police
Thurgood Marshal--very young age taught to obey law, denied right to go to a law school, first major case: suing a law school to let a student in, first black supreme court justice
brotherhood of sleeping car porters--didnt get paid much, had to pay to stay on train while working, first major black union
tuskegee airmen--first black aviation group, flew in WWII, still segregated
Malcome X--born in Omaha, black rights speaker, turned to crime, spent time in jail, into Islam, left that when leader started going against his own teachings, assassinated by the nation of Islam
Lynching--popular in the south, hang blacks cuz they felt like it, 5000 lynched, sit by and watch it happen
??????---blacks not allowed to opporate weapons,black man jumps on machine gun and saved lots of people
ella fitzgerald--queen of song
booker t washington--former slave of a small tobacco plantation, son of a slave owner, worked on plantation, carried books for slave owners daughter, went to school after emancipation, payed for it by working in a salt mine, became a rights activist, a lot like King,
Stokely Charmichel--part of violent black movements, when he went to school for science
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