https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o made by K’la Green en-us 2020-04-29 17:02:20 UTC 2026-01-27 16:53:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f91d.png klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539936430  Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi. The Greensboro Sit-In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states.]]> 2020-04-29 17:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539936430 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539963097 Nine black students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the students, however, they continue to be harassed.]]> 2020-04-29 17:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539963097 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539974664 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral.]]> 2020-04-29 18:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/539974664 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/540920645  Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”]]> 2020-04-30 05:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/540920645 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/540924612 Brown v. Board of Education, a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court, effectively ending racial segregation in public schools. Many schools, however, remained segregated.

]]> 2020-04-30 05:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/540924612 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/543491738 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. ]]> 2020-05-01 05:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/543491738 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544597532 The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. In March of that year, in an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups.]]> 2020-05-01 17:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544597532 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544977049 Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states.]]> 2020-05-01 23:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544977049 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544999161 Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local black community to organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. ]]> 2020-05-01 23:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/544999161 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545009651 Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of black nationalism. He urged his fellow black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” a stance that often put him at odds with the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. His charisma and oratory skills helped him achieve national prominence in the Nation of Islam, a belief system that merged Islam with black nationalism.]]> 2020-05-01 23:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545009651 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545011595 Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. But she was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women’s suffrage supporter. Tubman is one of the most recognized icons in American history and her legacy has inspired countless people from every race and background.]]> 2020-05-01 23:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545011595 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545016119 Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. ]]> 2020-05-02 00:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545016119 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545028400 In Oxford, Mississippi, James H. Meredith, an African American, is escorted onto the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off a deadly riot. Two men were killed before the racial violence was quelled by more than 3,000 federal soldiers. The next day, Meredith successfully enrolled and began to attend classes amid continuing disruption. This was known as the Ole Miss Riot.

]]> 2020-05-02 00:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545028400 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545031244 Birmingham became the center of the civil rights movement in spring 1963, when Martin Luther King, Jr. and his supporters in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived with a plan they called “Project C”—for confrontation. At that point, blacks were forced to attend different schools, eat in different restaurants, live in different neighborhoods and drink from different water fountains than their fellow white citizens. The city of about 340,000, which King called the most segregated in America, had even abandoned its minor league baseball team rather than watch it play against integrated competition. Meanwhile, around 50 bombings and dozens of cross-burnings had occurred there since 1947, earning Birmingham the nickname “Bombingham.”]]> 2020-05-02 00:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545031244 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545033525 The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and passed additional civil rights legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.]]> 2020-05-02 00:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545033525 klag147 https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545034540 https://www.history.com/?_sm_byp=iVVLJ616qj0Lf4HD]]> 2020-05-02 00:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/klag147/6qx2ki2crskd504o/wish/545034540