CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS

Mandela, Ghandi, Martin L. King. For english homework.

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CIVIL RIGHTS

Nelson Mandela

1918-2013

Non violent approch

He was arrested

He spent 27 years in prison on Robben Island

While in prison he read lots of books and verses

Studied as a lawyer

Against Apartheid

=segregation

These laws separed black and white people

1994 First Black President

Fist democratic election

1993 Nobel Peace Prize

Mahatma Ghandi

1969-1948

He was a lawyer

He spent 21 years in South Africa where he developed his political views

He was descriminated and bullied because of his skin colour

After these incidents he felt he must fight for civil rights

He ispired moviments for civil rights and freedom across de world

He employed non violent resistance to lead the campaign for India's indipendence from british rule

1930- the salt march

"Whit this handful of salt I'm shaking the foundations of the British Empire"

He was assassinated in 1948

1947 India became indipendent from Britain

Martin Luther King

1929-1968

Atlanta, Georgia,USA

Religion education

At 18 years , he became a Baptist Church preacher

Non violent approch

He took parts of his idea from Ghandi

1955-Rosa Parks refuses to give way to a white man on a Montgomery bus and is arrested.

As a form of protest against this injustice, he organized a boycott of public transport in the city.

People won't use buses for 381 days

1963 he was arrested for taking part in a protest demonstration

28 August 1963, in Washington he delivers his speech

"I have a dream"

1964 Nobel Peace Prize

He was assassinated in 1968

By James Earl Ray