https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv Made with mirth en-us 2022-01-12 16:40:18 UTC 2022-03-21 19:17:22 UTC hello@padlet.com josephdaoust2024 https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990848244 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. At the time of the assassination, he was standing on the balcony of his second story room in memphis. He was in Memphis Tennessee to support a sanitary workers strike. When suddenly, he was struck by a bullet that his him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.]]> 2022-01-13 17:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990848244 josephdaoust2024 https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990875991 On December 4th, 1969, the leader of the civil rights group called the Black Panther Party was asleep next to his eight month pregnant fiance when a gas truck which happened to be an undercover police truck loaded with police officers showed up to his apartment, kicked his door down, and started shooting. He was just 21 years old at the time.]]> 2022-01-13 17:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990875991 josephdaoust2024 https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990908178 On July 26th, 1948, Harry Truman signed the Executive Order. The executive order worked to end segregation in the U.S Military]]> 2022-01-13 17:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/1990908178 josephdaoust2024 https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/2000296461 The Little Rock 9 were a group of 9 black students that enrolled to an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 4th, 1957. On the first day of school, the governor of Arkansas ordered the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. However, just later that month President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock 9 into the school. This is an important movement that lead to ending the segregation in schools.]]> 2022-01-19 12:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/2000296461 josephdaoust2024 https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/2106037859 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in

The Greensboro Sit-in was an event when four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refused to leave an "All white" school lunch counter without being served. The four that were involved were called "The Greensboro Four"  were named Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. ]]> 2022-03-21 19:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/josephdaoust2024/6nee70xxj3wbiavv/wish/2106037859