https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l ENOUGH - Who did you choose? Why? What were they fighting for and how did they fight for equal rights? en-us 2021-10-04 14:32:55 UTC 2022-02-01 18:46:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780411 Ruby Bridges 
She protested for racial equality. She went to an all white school with body guards she she wouldn’t get severely bullied. Parents pulled some of their children out of the school and all out of her class. So she was alone.]]> 2022-02-01 16:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780411 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780624 Woody Guthrie he made songs about how people should not be doing labor to all the most powerful. ]]> 2022-02-01 16:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780624 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780825 I chose Muhammad Ali. Because I have know for awhile that he was a boxer, but I was curious to know how he impacted the world. Muhammad Ali fought against the war, he was drafted but refused to go. Being drafted was against his religious beliefs.]]> 2022-02-01 16:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023780825 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023859281 Ruby bridges 
Ruby was protesting by going to an all white school, and a lot of people weren’t happy. She had to get guards to take her to school, and a lot of kids dropped out of her class. Her teacher even got fired at the end of the year. Ruby was protesting equality to show skin tone isn’t the biggest problem.]]> 2022-02-01 17:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023859281 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023863992 I chose Samual Adams because he stood up for the rights of the people who were being treated unfairly in Great Britain. He and a group of other people took crates full of expensive tea, which was heavily taxed on at that time, and dumped all of it into the harbor.]]> 2022-02-01 17:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023863992 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023864901 I chose Susan B. Antony. I chose her because I didn’t know much about her, and wanted to know more. 
She fought for woman’s right to vote. She fought by illegally voting in the presidential election on November 5, 1872 and was later arrested. When the court decided to not deal with her trial, she was released and continued to fight for woman’s rights to vote. 14 years after she died, the nineteenth amendment was ratified, which gave woman the right to vote. ]]> 2022-02-01 17:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023864901 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023865383 I choose Harriet Tubman because when she escaped from her owner she kept going back and freeing other slaves from different people. And she gave information on how to escape from their owners. And proved that different people can successfully do different things and she proved that becoming a famous “conductor” and how she helped a lot in the civil war.]]> 2022-02-01 17:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023865383 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867139 I chose Gilbert Baker because I have never heard of him before. He was fighting for gay rights and made a rainbow flag that represented race, gender, age, etc. He fought for equal rights by making this flag to then later have it be marched in the parade to show pride.]]> 2022-02-01 17:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867139 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867420 I chose America Ferreira because she and Eva Longoria, Penelope Cruz, Zoe Saldana and other Latina women spoke out for woman’s rights and to stop men from using power and physical threats to control woman. On January 1st, 2018, they started Times Up to support woman who were being hurt or held back in a work place. They were fighting for equal woman’s rights.]]> 2022-02-01 17:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867420 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867929 I picked Colin Kaepernick because I am a big football fan and this a big event in NFL history. He was protesting against the police brutality against African Americans. He protested by kneeling during the national anthem.]]> 2022-02-01 17:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867929 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867991 I chose Ruby Bridges to learn more about. I chose her because I hadn’t heard about her and wanted to learn more about what she had done. Ruby Bridges was the first African- American to go to an all white school which she started in elementary school. Her and her parents wanted her to be able to get the same education that white kids got. Even though she got taunted every day,  was sent daily threats, and had to be escorted in by an armed guard, she still went to school.]]> 2022-02-01 17:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023867991 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023868715 Gilbert Baker 
I chose Gilbert Baker because I support the LGBTQIA+ Community. Gilbert Baker was the man to first design and make the pride flag. He did this to fight for lgbtq+ equality and rights.]]> 2022-02-01 17:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023868715 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023870363 Woody Guthrie
Woody wrote songs protesting against World War II, and helped people get through the Great Depression with some of his hit songs like “This Land Is Your Land” and “I Ain’t Got No Home”. I chose Woody Guthrie because I didn’t know who he was before this and I thought it was the Woody from toy story.]]> 2022-02-01 17:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023870363 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023870506 I chose Colin kaepernick because I had never heard of him before and I thought that what he was fighting for is a worthy cause. He was raising awareness on police brutality, he did this by kneeling during the national anthem at one of his football games and other people started joining him. This did get him kicked out of the football team but he got his message across.]]> 2022-02-01 17:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023870506 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023871984 Jazz Jennings-fought for the right to become a transgender girl. I chose this because I do feel like this is a problem still today and that we are working on to change. Some things she fought for were the right to wear what she wanted, to join the girl’s soccer team, and to use the woman’s restroom. ]]> 2022-02-01 17:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023871984 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023873657 I choose Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, I choose them because I’ve never heard of them before and wanted to know who they were. They had been fighting for better working conditions for grape growers, they was a strike for 6 months but since that hadn’t worked they had gotten people to stop buying grapes which soon lead to an agreement being signed.]]> 2022-02-01 17:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023873657 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023875437 I chose Colin Kaepernick because I heard how he got dropped from the 49ers after he knelt during the national anthem, even though he was a really good athlete. He did this to raise awareness about police brutality against African Americans, he fought for the and ended up losing his job.]]> 2022-02-01 17:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023875437 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023876537 I found more information about Ruby Bridges and she was the first black girl to go to a all white school. She was fighting for equal rights by trying to make all schools fair and equal for all race. She is a adult women now and has published a book about her experience and how it effected others]]> 2022-02-01 17:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023876537 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023876636 Ruby Bridges
I chose Ruby because I think everyone deserves education. Ruby bridges was the first African American student to go to an all white elementary school. Rubys mother wanted her to have the educational opportunities that she didn’t. Ruby continued to go to school even when she was the only student. She and other brave students stopped segregation in schools. She fought for herself and equality.]]> 2022-02-01 17:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023876636 6rexerk2 https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023878995 I choose Gilbert baker because I didn’t know who make the first pride flag and I thought it was interesting that it had 8 colors at first. He worked to push for LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance ]]> 2022-02-01 17:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sumiller2/72ubhmi557mwyj8l/wish/2023878995