Historical Human Rights Movements
Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus effectively began which movement?
Civil Rights Movement
Fundamental things every person is entitled to just by being human, like the right to food, shelter, and safety, regardless of who they are
Rights
An American minister and advocate for human resistance and peaceful protesting. They were a prominent leader for the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK Jr
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall ____. -Rosa Parks
Overcome
Gave women the right to vote
Womens sufferage
Gave women the right to vote in national elections
Women's suffrage movement
The right to this means you can live or work wherever you’d like.
Freedom of movement
Refused to give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
“I have a ____ that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
- MLK Jr
Dream
Refused to give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
A massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial
The March on Washington
The right to express opinions, ideas, beliefs, or artistic creations without censorship or interference
Freedom of speech
This person insisted all people of the world had human rights, and is known for their philosophy of nonviolence.
Gandhi or MLK
“To ____ people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” - Nelson Mandela
Deny
The Movement of millions of slaves to America from Africa during the 18th century
The Atlantic slave trade
Brown V Board of education
This Supreme Court of the USA case ruled that "state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional".
These rights pertain to participation in decision making and governance.
Political Rights
This woman was one of the most notable leaders of the women's suffrage movement in NZ
Kate sheppard
"Be the ___ you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi
Change
The name of racist segregation laws in the USA
Jim Crow
The Apartheid system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that governed this African nation from 1948 to the early 1990s
South Africa
Unfair treatment or prejudice against individuals or groups based on certain characteristics such as race, gender, or ethnicity
This 21 year old Swede is a well known environmental rights activist, and she was named Time’s Person of the Year in 2019 at just 16 years old.
Greta Thunberg
Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single ___. -Kate Sheppard
drops
The Supreme Court of the USA case ruled that "state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional".
Brown V Board