May 21

To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for next tomorrow, Friday's quiz (it's only seven new words)

To Kill a Mockingbird is all about racism, hatred, and inequality. And in particular, the question of how we are going to respond to those issues. In 1963, 100 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches ever delivered, the 
I Have a Dream speech. In it, he talks of people being judged based on the content of their character. Ask yourself, what is Tom Robinson's character like?

I Have a Dream

Brown v. Board of Education--Success or Failure
Brown v. Board of Education
The key holding of the Court was that, even if segregated black and white schools were of equal quality in facilities and teachers, segregation by itself was harmful to black students and unconstitutional.
Still Separate, Still Unequal
Was Brown v. Board a Failure?
Georgia Segregated Proms in 2014
     Prom Night in Georgia documentary, part 1
What is Title 1











45 years later senator Obama delivered this speech at the democratic national convention and some say that it is the speech that made it possible for him to win the national election and become president. (When I heard it, I said to my friends, "This man will one day be president.")
Convention speech
The entire speech from the Democratic National Convention