SS: History Alive! Presentation Notes

• Little Rock Central High School – Neil
• During Civil Rights movement, segregation was still rife in schools
• Laws didn't have much effect on the issue
• Previously all-white Little Rock Central High School had more than 75 black students, which angered the locals
• Little Rock Nine was created with black students
• Arkansas guards prevented black students from entering the school
• Little Rock Nine finally attended Little Rock Central High School with guards
• Harvey Milk, The Martin Luther King of the Gay Rights Movement – Ramon
• Fought (and died) for gay rights
• OriginallyNY public school teacher, then moved around
• Ran 3 times but wasn't elected, then elected
• Challenged Proposition 6, proposition against LGBT people
• Organized March on Washington but brutally assassinated before the date
• Uganda couple escaped to the US due to a Ugandan law against gays, but then was forced to flee when President Trump was elected
• Larry Doby: Breaking Barriers – Justin, Michael
• Denied entrance to the hotel at his first professional game
• Some team players refused to shake his hands after a match
• The 8888 Uprising: Myanmar's Fight for Democracy – Amaryllis, Alli
• 1988 uprising spurred protests for civil rights
• Made citizens aware of the protests
• The Harlem Renaissance: African American Artists of Change – Nadia
• Reformed ways to express individualism through artistic expressions
• More racial and gender equality for artists (musicians, actors, painters, etc)
• Albert Einstien: A Civil Rights Activist – Luca
• Jim Crow Laws – gave more power to whites 
• Joined the founding of NAACP
• Improved education for blacks
• The American "Indan" Movement – Luca, Aaron
• Whites stole land from the "Indans"
• Land represented the "Indan's" culture and history
• Destroyed cultural significance
• Malcolm X: Equality at All Costs – Mychal
• Willing to die for equality
• Soviet Ballet Dancers: Dancing Their Way to Freedom – Aditi, Zi
• Got more quotes
• Integrated more media (newspaper articles, videos, images, etc)
• Updated formatting
• Anastas Mikoyan: The Soviet Ambassador Who Stood Between Castro and Nuclear War – Varun
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