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1 Thursday Great Speech/Outlining Questions?
Discuss “I Have a Dream” Rhetorical Devices “We Shall Overcome” Analysis Homework: Upload outline to turnitin.com by midnight Suffixes at Last due tomorrow Print off an article about the topic you have been reading about

2 Citing Speeches Johnson, Lyndon Baines. “We Shall Overcome.” Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation. Washington, D.C. 15 Mar American Rhetoric. 18 Feb

3 1961: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama
57% of residents are black. 1500 of those black residents are old enough to vote 130 of black residents old enough to vote are registered 80% of those black residents live below the poverty line

4 Why were fewer than 1% of eligible black voters registered?
KKK Voter drives were interrupted by violence and death threats state & local officials blacks trying to desegregate local businesses were beaten and arrested black teachers who registered were fired applicants arrested at City Hall Red tape Voter registration only allowed 2x/month Literacy tests to register Groups of 3 or more discussing voter registration or civil rights became illegal

5 2 July 1964 Segregation becomes illegal when President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. Segregationists step up their efforts to keep black people disenfranchised.

6 Early 1965 January: the Selma Voting Rights Movement formally begins.
February: Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot by a State Trooper as he runs away from the attacks at a civil rights demonstration. A protest march , involving more than 500 protesters, from Selma to Montgomery is planned to ask Governor George Wallace to protect black voter registrants.

7 Police wait for marchers to come across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.

8 Alabama state troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

9 7 March 1965 Protesters refused to disperse.
State Troopers knocked protesters to the ground, beat them with nightsticks, fired teargas, and charged the crowd while on horseback. 17 protesters were hospitalized.

10 Following Bloody Sunday
A second march was organized for the 9th 2500 marchers gathered 3 white participants were attacked; James Reeb died two days later.


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