THE DAILY NEWS OF THE DC. AREA
AUGUST 28, 1963
Washington Times Advise Column
Stand Against Segregation
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech By: Sophie Marcotte Martin Luther King Jr., a small negro boy, was born in a large victorian house in Atlanta, Georgia. He beginning of this speech his started his journey as a civil rights activist during the plan was to change segregation Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and since then he completely and have freedom has had many accomplishments. Some of his for him and him and other accomplishments were having no more bus people facing the same social segregation in Montgomery, writing his own book to challenges as he was. As quoted help people take a stand against segregation, and from his speech “one hundred placing great power in the faith of having the rights years later, the Negro was not to vote. On the very special day of August, 28 Martin free.” which is what he was Luther King Jr. and other civil rights organizers lead planning to change. Will this be 250,000 people to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial the end of segregation as we to fight for equal rights and freedom. He believed know it? that Negros were still being treated unfairly and had no equal rights. With having different bathrooms, water fountains, schools and much more. He thought “why should we be treated different just by our skin color, when underneath we are all the same?” and that is what his speech was all about. At the
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Dear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., My name is Bobby, I am young white boy and I am having some debates with myself. A couple of weeks ago my mom, my grandmother, my brother and I were driving on a road trip, to bring my grandmother home back to florida. On the way we had some troubles like my brother and I fighting, and my mom being stressed about relationships. It was a long car ride. But an even bigger problem came up at one point, our car had gotten stuck at some creepy old house. Two black men came out of that house and came up to our car window. I was very frightened of chocolate men back then. We got out of the car and started running because we couldn't get our car unstuck. After that we decided to go on a train the rest of the way, but of coarse we ran into another problem. The train employees were on strike, so the only option was to take the bus. We were taking a white only bus, when a family of blacks who were desperate to come on to the bus to see their son who was miles away. After this encounter I realized that maybe we’re not so different after all. Now this is why I was coming to
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the blacks do. With us in charge we can do so much
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Advice Column you. Do you have any advise on what I could do to help stop segregation?
Dear Bobby,
The Other side My name is Hugo and I think that segregation is a good thing to have. With segregation it would keep our buses, bathrooms, trains, and water fountains much cleaner. If all of us were sharing more than they could. everything thing then things would be disgusting since black people never bathe Like make sure we have a good economy, and keep or clean themselves at all. ! Have you ever seen black peoples people safe from houses? If you have then you would know terrorists. Those are the that they are old and not well cleaned or reasons why segregation is a great thing to have and i put together houses. That is because we tend to be better at finances than them, and they can not manage their money well. We are much smarter and can think through problems better. Being able to do that better makes it so we should be in charge and get higher quality stu than
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I am sorry about your car getting stuck and you and you brother having a fight. That must of been a long car ride! The most amazing thing that I read though was your encounter with us negroes and seeing how unfair things are. I wish that more people could also have that encounter. Most white people believe that segregation is ok. They feel like they should not do anything because its not involving them, and that there life is happy and all ok. They are bystanders. Down way deep inside they know that what is happening is wrong. Even though they know that its wrong they do not do anything about it. But you I feel like are out of that bystander stage and you want to help stop segregation. My advise to help you stop segregation is to stand up to people who wont let blacks go on a bus or train. Give speeches, start petitions, do all that you can to help fight segregation. And good luck to you.
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Lexicon Organizer Word & Page #
Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)
Definition
Sentence from book
Relevance or importance to topic.
Use the word in a new sentence. (your own!)
Activism #302 (Gale)
Noun
The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.
A remarkable era of nonviolent African American activism began in 1954.
Because the Should we start a blacks during activism to get equal segregation began rights? an activism to have equal rights.
Chocolate #23
Noun
A deep brown color
Did chocolate men dig graves back then, too?
Because segregation is about blacks and whites and blacks can be called chocolate too.
Cigarette #143
Noun
a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
And now the sudden smell because smoking of a cigarette and dirty was more popular underwear as a couple of back then men slumped in the booth next to them.
Civil war #13
Noun
A war between The Civil war battlefields in Racism is what groups of people Kentucky, Tennessee, started the Civil in the same Georgia- war country
There were tons of chocolate men at the park.
My friend found a cigarette on the street
I went to see the Civil war battlefields
Lexicon Organizer Colored #146
Adjective
wholly or partly of nonwhite descent
COLORED.
There were COLORED The sign on the water signs on the fountain was COLORED bathrooms and other things segregating them
Crawl space #55
Noun
an area of limited height under a floor or roof, giving access to wiring and plumbing.
musty crawl spaces like the one in the ceiling over his room at home.
They used crawl spaces to hide slaves
I had to crawl through the dark and musty crawl space
Discrimination #23 (Gale)
Noun
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things
Banning discrimination in employing workers in the defense industry.
The blacks were being treated differently
The blue gold fish was being discriminated from the yellow ones
equal #302 (Gale)
Noun
a person or thing considered to be the same as another in status or quality
The Fourteenth Amendment(1868) declared that all former slaves were U.S. citizens and received equal protection
Because the civil rights movement was about all humans being treated equal
I should be treated just as equal as he is!
Freedom #307 (Gale)
Noun
The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without
In 1964, SNCC initiated Freedom Summer
Because the blacks wanted freedom from being treated unfairly
The people wanted to have freedom
Lexicon Organizer hindrance or restraint immigrant #51
Noun
a person who immigrants? comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
They were surrounded by them on a train
A new boat full of immigrants came in today
Inferior #992 (Gale)
Adjective
lower in rank, They went to inferior status, or quality schools.
The blacks went to worse quality schools than the whites
Bathrooms for the blacks were inferior
Ku Klux Klan #304 (Gale)
Noun
A secret society
Because when the blacks were fighting for equal rights the ku klux klan killed them in rebellion.
The Ku Klux Klan should not have done what they did.
Liberalism #472 (Gale)
Noun
of white southerners in the United States that uses terrorist tactics to suppress African Americans and other minorities a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.
The Ku Klux Klan.
The journal's liberalism Because the and desire to disavow any blacks wanted association with religious equality causes gradually reduced its popularity in the 1910s and 1920s, and it ceased publication in 1935.
A mans liberalism was amazing
Lexicon Organizer minie #97
Noun
The Minié ball, A minie ball. or Minie ball, is a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized rifle bullet
They used minie Have you ever seen a balls in the civil war minie ball?
Musket #203 (Gale)
Noun
an infantryman's A musket on his shoulder light gun with a and bullets in his pocket long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder.
They used Look at the soldiers muskets in the Civil carrying their War muskets!
Negro #28
Noun
a member of a There is one negro dark-skinned clothing store that we can group of peoples go too. originally native to Africa south of the Sahara.
Because the book was about racism and a the stores were separated
The negro store isn't open on sundays
Racist #992 (Gale)
Noun
a person who the passing of new laws believes that a outlawing racist practices. particular race is superior to another.
Because people were racist during segregation
The white man was being very racist to us
Segregation
Noun
the enforced
Because the civil
Some people thought
Americal was a
Lexicon Organizer #992 (Gale)
separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment
segregated society.
rights movement was about segregation
that segregation had to stop
Shotgun #114
Noun
a smoothbore gun for firing small shot at short range.
Manhunt...Negro They used Youth...Prophet...Shotgun. shotguns in the ..White...Teenager... civil war
Shoot that man with your shotgun!
Slaves #56
Noun
a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
They had slaves even when they were in the union.
The civil war was a It was wrong for battle partly about people to have slaves slaves
Soldiers #108
Noun
a person/persons who serves in an army
The big house is right out here somewhere, and the memorial for the union soldiers.
Soldiers fought in the civil war
The soldiers were going to europe tomorrow
Strike #134
Noun
a refusal to work The trains employees had organized by a gone on strike. body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an
Because the blacks went on strike for equality
the employees of McDonald's went on strike because they weren't being paid enough
Lexicon Organizer attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer Tinderbox #128
Noun
a thing that is readily ignited
Union #114
Noun
the action or fact Union soldiers? of joining or being joined, esp. in a political context
White #131
adjective
(also White )belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored
Everywhere a tinderbox?
Tinderbox’s were common in the 18th century
go get me the tinderbox so we can roast marshmallows
There were unions in the civil war
Our union is doing great!
“She’s white top to bottom, Because isn’t she, Poppa?” segregation was about blacks and whites
Shes a white girl
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