Fighting to end prejudice and discrimination - who, what, how?
Martin Luther King Jr:
Who was he?
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
King was bought up in a Christian family and had a good education. He was strongly influenced in his thinking by the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi (see below) and his non-violent way.
King mainly fought against the prejudice that black people faced in the USA because of the colour of their skin. At this time in America black people were segregated (separated) from whites in a number of different areas of life, for example the school system, transport systems, shops and even churches.
What did he do?
1955 - King organised a bus boycott to try and end segregation on the buses. It took over a year to achieve but by the end blacks could sit next to whites rather than sitting only at the back or standing up for a fellow white passenger.
1957 - King continues to preach non-violent direct action which involved marches, boycotts and sit ins.
1963 - King marched with school children to demonstrate the poor education and schools that black children had
Who was he?
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
King was bought up in a Christian family and had a good education. He was strongly influenced in his thinking by the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi (see below) and his non-violent way.
King mainly fought against the prejudice that black people faced in the USA because of the colour of their skin. At this time in America black people were segregated (separated) from whites in a number of different areas of life, for example the school system, transport systems, shops and even churches.
What did he do?
1955 - King organised a bus boycott to try and end segregation on the buses. It took over a year to achieve but by the end blacks could sit next to whites rather than sitting only at the back or standing up for a fellow white passenger.
1957 - King continues to preach non-violent direct action which involved marches, boycotts and sit ins.
1963 - King marched with school children to demonstrate the poor education and schools that black children had
Mohandas K Gandhi:
Who was he?
Born in to a Hindu family in India (1869) at a time when India was part of the British Empire, Gandhi led the Indian nationalist movement against British rule. He believed in peaceful non-cooperation with the British (boycotts and marches) and famously said "An eye for an eye... and soon we shall all be blind" to show that violence was not the answer.
What did he do?
1930 - he led the salt tax march because it was illegal for Indians to produce their own salt
Hunger strike
Fought to change the attitude toward the lowest Hindu class - the untouchables. He saw them too as 'children of God'.
Who was he?
Born in to a Hindu family in India (1869) at a time when India was part of the British Empire, Gandhi led the Indian nationalist movement against British rule. He believed in peaceful non-cooperation with the British (boycotts and marches) and famously said "An eye for an eye... and soon we shall all be blind" to show that violence was not the answer.
What did he do?
1930 - he led the salt tax march because it was illegal for Indians to produce their own salt
Hunger strike
Fought to change the attitude toward the lowest Hindu class - the untouchables. He saw them too as 'children of God'.
Desmond Tutu:
Who is he?
Tutu was born in South Africa at a time when people lived under the apartheid system. This was the total separation of the black and white communities, with the minority whites in complete control of the country.
Tutu is a religious leader and as he began to move up the religious hierarchy he used his position to campaign against the way black were treated. He took great risk doing it as the apartheid was a government policy and if you criticised it, you faced torture and imprisonment.
What did he do?
Organised non-violent protests like marches, boycotts, peitions
Who is he?
Tutu was born in South Africa at a time when people lived under the apartheid system. This was the total separation of the black and white communities, with the minority whites in complete control of the country.
Tutu is a religious leader and as he began to move up the religious hierarchy he used his position to campaign against the way black were treated. He took great risk doing it as the apartheid was a government policy and if you criticised it, you faced torture and imprisonment.
What did he do?
Organised non-violent protests like marches, boycotts, peitions