Real Civil Rights Leaders
Dear Martin Plot
Character Names
Real Events in Civil Rights History
Slide Deck Contents
100

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.

100

The reason that the book is called "Dear Martin"

Jus is writing letters to MLK

100

Justyce's girlfriend (at the end!)

SJ Friedman

100

The SCOTUS case that deemed "separate but equal" unconstitutional, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

100

The activity that we incorporated to engage the class

Jeopardy

200

Who is this?

Rosa Parks

200

The city that the book is set in

Atlanta, GA

200

The only teacher of color at Bras Prep

"Doc"

200

The name of the protest that Rosa Parks was famously involved in

Montgomery Bus Boycott

200

The amount of key characters listed

Six

300

A founding member of the NAACP and an advocate for education (we've read his work for homework!)

W. E. B. Du Bois

300

What kind of tournament does Justyce and SJ win?

Debate

300

After denying his privilege for the whole book, this character sees major development by the end, choosing to pursue Civil Rights Law

Jared Christensen

300

What year was the #BlackLivesMatter movement founded?

2013

300

The author of Dear Martin

Nic Stone

400

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

400

The school that Justyce and Jared attend

Yale

400

Manny's cousin

Quan Banks

400

The year of the Emancipation Proclamation

1863

400

The TV show that we showed a clip from

All American

500

Creator of the term "intersectionality"

Kimberlé Crenshaw

500

What Jared calls the group participating in the stereotyped Halloween costumes

The Equality Brigade

500

The officer that handcuffs Justyce in the beginning of the book

Officer Castillo

500

The city where the famous sit-ins started

Greensboro

500

The title page of the slide deck is made to look like this

A composition book