My dream speech

We started by looking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s [MLK] famous dream speech and then we talked about what I would like to see change in my lifetime and what I feel passionate about. I am mainly focussed on gender stereotyping and equality and I have been looking at some campaigns and sites like PinkStinks, Let clothes be clothes and A mighty girl for inspiration to write my own dream speech:

I have a dream that I will live in a world
Where people don't tell little girls and boys
What they are supposed to like. 

I have a dream that all over the world
Little girls will go to school alongside their brothers. 

I have a dream that all over the world,
Men and women will be able
To chose who they love. 

I have a dream that when I am older
I will live in a world where society does not teach
Little girls that the most important thing about them
Is to be pretty. 

I have a dream of a world
Where damsels and princesses save themselves
Instead of waiting for their prince charming. 

I have a dream that we will live
In a world where being strong and protective
Isn't just for boys
And being kind and thoughtful
Isn't just for girls.

Harriet Tubman

Born:  1820 in Dorchester county, Maryland.

Died: March 10 1913 in Auburn,  New York aged 93.

Children: Gertie Davis [adopted] 

Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland 1820.  Her birth name was Araminta Ross but when she was 13 she took up her mothers name, Harriet.

It was hard being a slave, when she was only 6 years old she was loaned out to another family where she cared for a baby and the only thing she got to eat was table scraps.

When she was thirteen she received a severe head injury when a slave owner tried to throw a iron weight at his slave but unfortunately it hit her in the head. She said that her hair (which had never been brushed) saved her life.

Harriet first escaped with her two brothers but half way they decided to turn back and forced Harriet to come with them.

Harriet then escaped again in 1849 to Philadelphia but immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Very slowly group by group she brought relatives with her out of the city and gradually guided dozens of slaves to freedom.

Harriet was called 'the moses of her people' like in the bible she freed her people. Harriet freed hundreds of slaves before she freed herself.

The underground railroad was not a actual railroad but a number of safe homes [called stations] that hid slaves as they travelled north. The people that helped the slaves where called conductors.

The main reason that Harriet Tubman was never caught was because she was a woman everyone assumed they were looking for a man. 

A day in the shoes of Ruby Bridges

 My name is Ruby Bridges and I am 6 years old. I was born on September the 8th 1954 in
TylerTown, Mississippi. My parents Lucille and Abon Bridges  are sharecroppers which means they farm on the land but don't own it. When I turned four we moved to New Orleans. In New Orleans we lived in a small apartment were I shared a bedroom with my sister and two younger brothers. I went to a all black kindergarden. It was a long walk but I didn't mind I would pass the baker who would give me a friendly wave. I really liked my teacher mrs. king. One day I was asked to take a test, at the time I did not know that it would determine whether or not I would go to a all white school. I was one of the six who passed the test two didn't go and there was three other girls who went to a different school. At first my dad didn't want me to go because off all the protesters but my mum managed to convince him.


Each day these men called federal marshals would take me to school. at first I didn't understand why there were so many people trying to stop me from going to school. every day there would be protesters throwing stones at me. Most of the other children were taken out of school even the people who did not protest had to take there children out of school because it wasn't safe. I was the only black child in the school and the only child in the year. I had a white teacher called mrs. Henry.

Even though there were loads of protesters there was also a few people who would send money to pay the bills and gifts of encouragement.


Hear Ruby Bridges talk about her experience here
before you go please take a minute of your time to listen to this song about Ruby Bridges here.