How we organize ourselves:"Lee Daniels' The Butler"

Instructions: number the following plot events in chronological order.

•Barak Obama becomes the first African American President.

•Lewis joins the Black Panthers – a radical revolutionary organisation.

•Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

•Cecil’s father is shot dead by a white farm owner.

•Lewis is arrested for sitting in a section of a restaurant reserved for “whites only”.

•A supreme court judge declares segregation in schools unconstitutional.

•President Eisenhower sends troops to protect and integrate schools in the south.

•President Kennedy pushes to declare segregation in any public place unconstitutional.

•Cecil gets a job at the Excelsior Hotel.

•Cecil gets trained as a “house servant” by Miss Annie.

•Cecil gets a job at the White House.

•Cecil, with Reagan’s support, gets equal pay for African American staff in the White house.

•Freedom Riders – integrated busses travel into the segregated south.

•President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

•Cecil Joins Lewis in fighting the Apartheid in South Africa.

•President Johnson enacts legislature defending everyone’s right to vote.