TheKultureKidz.com » Civil Rights http://thekulturekidz.com african american history from a-z Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/martin-luther-king-jr/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/martin-luther-king-jr/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:50:18 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=17 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> martin-luther-king-jr Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA in 1948. In 1953 King married Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They had four children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice.

King most famous speech is called ” I Have A Dream.”  He spoke to 250,000 people in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray in 1968. On January 20, 1986 the United States celebrated King’s birthday as a holiday for the first time.

I HAVE A DREAM
(Parts of Speech)

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four 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.

I have a dream today.

Read or listen to the entire speech (new window)

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]]> http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/martin-luther-king-jr/feed/ 1 Voting http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/voting/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/voting/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:07:54 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=25 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> votingbox Voting In March 1870, the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted giving blacks for the first time in this country the right to vote. The Amendment states that all US citizens have the right to vote and shall not be denied that right on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first black person to vote in a US election in 1870.

Visit the National Voting Right Museum: http://www.voterights.org/

Information provided by:
Marlive Harris and students at McWhorter Elementary School, Carrollton, TX.

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]]> http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/voting/feed/ 0 Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/thurgood-marshall/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/01/thurgood-marshall/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:06:33 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=24 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> thurgood-marshallJudge Thurgood Marshall was a great lawyer and Civil Rights leader. As chief counsel for the NAACP, he won the historic Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case. This unanimous 1954 decision laid the groundwork for school desegregation. In 1967, Marshall was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court by President Johnson. This made him the first African American ever appointed to the Supreme Court

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