Real Civil Rights Leaders
The Civil Rights Activist who inspires the name of this book, famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech & for authoring "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King Jr.
The reason that the book is called "Dear Martin"
Jus is writing letters to MLK
Justyce's girlfriend (at the end!)
SJ Friedman
The SCOTUS case that deemed "separate but equal" unconstitutional, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
The activity that we incorporated to engage the class
Jeopardy
Who is this?
Rosa Parks
The city that the book is set in
Atlanta, GA
The only teacher of color at Bras Prep
"Doc"
The name of the protest that Rosa Parks was famously involved in
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The amount of key characters listed
Six
A founding member of the NAACP and an advocate for education (we've read his work for homework!)
W. E. B. Du Bois
What kind of tournament does Justyce and SJ win?
Debate
After denying his privilege for the whole book, this character sees major development by the end, choosing to pursue Civil Rights Law
Jared Christensen
What year was the #BlackLivesMatter movement founded?
2013
The author of Dear Martin
Nic Stone
The activist who delivered the famous "Ballot or the Bullet" speech, he isn't taught as frequently in mainstream civil rights history education
Malcolm X
The school that Justyce and Jared attend
Yale
Manny's cousin
Quan Banks
The year of the Emancipation Proclamation
1863
The TV show that we showed a clip from
All American
Creator of the term "intersectionality"
Kimberlé Crenshaw
What Jared calls the group participating in the stereotyped Halloween costumes
The Equality Brigade
The officer that handcuffs Justyce in the beginning of the book
Officer Castillo
The city where the famous sit-ins started
Greensboro
The title page of the slide deck is made to look like this
A composition book