Civil Rights 4B by Paul Carter https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5 By Paul Carter en-us 2017-03-17 18:59:54 UTC 2017-03-17 19:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png 13th Amendment paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879763 December 6, 1865. Was an amendment that is divided into two parts, the first prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except for crime punishment. The second granting congress permission to enforce the law.]]> 2017-03-17 19:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879763 Emmett Till paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879923 1955. The trial was based on a African American teen who was killed by two white men in Mississippi, because he allegedly made advances on a white women. The trial brought about an outrage in America and gave way to many Civil Rights movements.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879923 Little Rock 9 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879988 September 3, 1957. The nine students postponed their first day while the school board obtained a court order for desegregation, but when they arrived on September 4, the National Guard blocked their entrance, thus directly challenging the federal government. On September 20, the district court ordered the governor to stop interfering with desegregation and remove the troops; he refused.]]> 2017-03-17 19:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160879988 MLK Jailed paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880030 April 12, 1963. MLK was arrest for violating Alabama's law against mass public demonstrations took place just over a week after the campaign's commencement.
Letter From Birmingham Jail - April 12, 1963. After MLK’s arrest at Birmingham he wrote a long letter about his arrest to the people and explained what happened. “But what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers?”


]]> 2017-03-17 19:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880030 Roe v Wade paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880090 1973. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Major controversial event that happened during the 1970s.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880090 Voting Rights Act of 1965 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880320 1965. Voting right act that changed the way voting worked in the Us. Gave rights to all races and people man and women to vote. Brought up many controversies during the 1960s.]]> 2017-03-17 19:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880320 EEOC paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880378 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - 1964. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to eliminate discrimination in all aspects of employment. The EEOC investigates complaints of discrimination in such areas as hiring, firing, income, testing, training, and apprenticeship to determine the merit of these complaints.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880378 14 Amendment paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880448 June 1866. The Fourteenth Amendment, which sought to extend national rights to citizens regardless of their race. The Fourteenth Amendment was wedged between two other amendments that were adopted contemporaneously soon after the Civil War, and an understanding of the dilemmas faced after the war does much to explain it.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880448 Jackie Robinson paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880506 1945. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to receive a contract to play Major League Baseball. This first break in organized baseball’s segregation practices in 1945 paved the way for other talented black athletes to enter the sport. Robinson's flair, grace, and superlative athletic ability made him one of the top crowd-pleasers baseball has ever known.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880506 Greensboro 4 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880537 The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent demonstrations by African American college students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The sit-ins, which were staged in an effort to end racial inequalities in the South, it led to other sit-ins across the country.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880537 Birmingham Protests paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880579 1963. part of a nonviolent direct action campaign organized by the SCLC against racial segregation. The Birmingham campaign became a turning point in the struggle for civil rights as the SCLC led a series of boycotts and peaceful demonstrations in the city's downtown area.]]> 2017-03-17 19:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880579 24 Amendment paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880628 January 23, 1964. prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880628 MLK Assassination paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880664 April 4, 1968. On April 4, King was shot while waving to a crowd from the balcony of his room in the Lorraine Motel, and he died just one hour later. His death sparked an enormous wave of rioting and looting in urban areas throughout the nation and brought the idealistic phase of civil rights agitation to a close.]]> 2017-03-17 19:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880664 Desegregation of the Armed Forces paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880699 July 31, 1948. The paper announces the issuance of Executive Order No. 9981, President Harry Truman's order to desegregate the armed forces. Truman also required the military to provide equal opportunities for all citizens.


]]> 2017-03-17 19:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880699 15 Amendment paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880733 February 26, 1869. Once the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited deprivation of voting rights on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," however, a number of other amendments—most notably the Nineteenth and Twenty-sixth—have protected the franchise.]]> 2017-03-17 19:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880733 Rosa Parks paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880783 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who has been called "the mother of the civil rights movement" because of her courage when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. That act of resistance set off a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system, which in turn activated the larger movement against segregation throughout the country. 


]]> 2017-03-17 19:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880783 Freedom Rides - 1961 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880816 Freedom Rides were a series of organized interstate bus rides meant to directly confront discriminatory Jim Crow Laws found in the Southern states. Made up of students and veteran civil rights  activists, the Freedom Riders were enacting a form of civil disobedience.Technically, however, they were acting peacefully to uphold federal laws against discrimination in the face of violent opposition to civil rights legislation and those who used violence to maintain their now-illegal status quo of segregation.]]> 2017-03-17 19:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880816 March on Washington paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880864 August 28, 1963. more than 250,000 demonstrators from all across the country descended on the nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington (officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom). Not only was this march the largest demonstration for human rights in U.S. history, but it also showcased, for the first time, unity among the various civil rights organizations. 


]]> 2017-03-17 19:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880864 Civil Rights Act of 1964 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880882 1964. AN ACT to enforce the constitutional right to vote


]]> 2017-03-17 19:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880882 Civil Rights Act of 1968 paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880913 1968. Gave rights to pay and rent of a whole family and even detailed. 


]]> 2017-03-17 19:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880913 Wisconsin v Yoder paul_carter_923 https://padlet.com/paul_carter_923/6nmmwzhkd1u5/wish/160880962 May 15, 1972. ruled that Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law was unconstitutional when applied to the Amish, because it violated their rights under the First Amendment, which guaranteed the free exercise of religion.


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