human rights Flashcards
Define what human rights are.
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status
Understand how Black Americans fought for equal civil rights
Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, “freedom rides,” and rallies
Assess whether Black people in the USA feel that they have equal rights and justice today.
There is still some racism in the USA today but all African American have legal rights.
Understand the work which Amnesty International does in fighting for human rights today*.
Amnesty International investigates human rights abuses and identifies solutions to the systemic issues that marginalised groups of people.
Describe a human rights issue in the world today.
Civil and political rights are violated through genocide, torture, and arbitrary arrest.
who is Abraham Lincoln.
He was a president in the USA who helped the human rights movement. He issued the emancipation proclamation which announced “That all persons held as slaves within rebellious areas are henceforward shall be free” He died April 14 1865, from being shot while attending a play at ford theatre.
who is Martin Luther King
He was an American, christian, minister, activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement. He encouraged people of colour to act with nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalised discrimination. He died from gunshot on 4 April 1968 by James Earl-ray.
who is Rosa Parks
She was an American activist who disobeyed the law by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, in Montgomery alabama. As a result of her defiance, Parks was arrested and found guilty of disorderly conduct. By making her stand she sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, a non-violent protest. Parks’s act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation, and organised and collaborated with civil rights leaders.
who is Bull Conner
He was an American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, alabama. As a member of the Democratic Party, he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement Bull Connor, a white supremacist, enforced racial segregation and denied civil rights to black citizens.
who is - George Floyd
George Perry Floyd was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Derek Chauvin, one of the four police officers, knelt on Floyd’s neck and back for 9 minutes and 29 seconds which caused a lack of oxygen. After his murder, protests against police brutality, especially towards black people, quickly spread across the United States and globally. His dying words, “I can’t breathe”, became a rallying slogan.
who is - Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was murdered in a racially motivated hate crime in Glynn County, Georgia, on February 23, 2020. Three white men, who later claimed to police that they assumed he was a burglar, pursued Arbery in their trucks for several minutes, using the vehicles to block his path as he tried to run away.Two of the men, Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, were armed in one vehicle. Their neighbour, William “Roddie” Bryan, was in another vehicle. After overtaking Arbery, Travis McMichael exited his truck, pointing his weapon at Arbery. Arbery approached McMichael and a physical altercation ensued, resulting in McMichael fatally shooting Arbery. Bryan recorded this confrontation and Arbery’s murder on his cell phone.
what is the American Civil War
12 april 1861 - 1 april 1856, was a war between the north of america(union) and south(confederacy). The Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. Some key battles were he First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Vicksburg Campaign. Key leaders were (south) Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, (North) Abraham Lincon Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman,
what is the Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It declared that all enslaved people in the states that were in rebellion against the United States were free
what is the
- Brown vs the Board of Education.
Brown v. Board of Education was a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision declared separate educational facilities for white and African American students as inherently unequal, rejecting the “separate but equal” doctrine. This ruling inspired the American civil rights movement of the late 1950s and ’60s.
what is - Central High School, Little Rock
-1957) little rock high school announces a black student will attend.
The nine students arrive to a mob of angry parents and citizens. Black students are verbally abused and attacked, food thrown at them ect, and could not get into school.
-Governor Faubus sends state troops to “protect” the students to ensure “order”.
-resident Eisenhower eventually sent the national guard and provided personal protection to the students
