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Prejudice & Discrimination
- Definitions
- Prejudice -
Believing some
people are inferior
or superior without
even knowing
them
- Discrimination -
This means to
act on the basis
of prejudice
- Racism - The belief
that some races are
superior to others.
- Stereotyping - A generalised
and simplistic mental idea of a
group which is usually negative
- Scapegoat - To
blame things that
go wrong on a
particular person or
group
- Types of Discrimination:
- Descrimination against
disabled people
- Rascism
- Sexism
- Ageism
- Homophobia
- Anti-semitism
(against Jews)
- Xenophobia
(against
foreigners)
- Islamaphobia
(against
Muslims)
- Martin Luther King
- Leader of
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
- This resulted in the
outlaw of racial
discrimination on
intra-state buses.
- Used
non-violence to
fight for what he
believed in
- Opposed Vietnam War
- Campaigned for the
poor - both black and
some white people
- When the civil rights
movement was gaining
ground, King would lead
protests to develop interest
among nation.
- Lead Marches
- Had patience for
many years
- He was elected
President of the
Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference
- He began to help
other communities
when leading protests
to fight against racial
descrimination and
injustice.
- In Birmingham (Alabama) they were
having a massive protest for fair hiring
practices and the desegregation of
department store facilities.
- Police responded violently
to the march but King
proceeded to lead the
protest without violence
- When 200,000 people
gathered at the Lincon
Memorial in 1963 for the 'I have
a dream speech'
- He pushed the idea
that non violence
resistance was the
most powerful
weapon available.
- King became
challenged and
publicly derided
- He failed in his drive
against racial
discrimination in
Chicago
- He had made no
progress in his battle
against
desegregation in
public parks in
Albany.
- In the southern states, he
looked for support from janitors,
hospital workers, and pacifist
intellectuals but he was
unsuccessful.