https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf en-us 2021-12-19 09:30:47 UTC 2026-02-23 17:12:19 UTC hello@padlet.com amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955337149 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation – a presidential order freeing slaves in the Confederate states.

]]> 2021-12-19 09:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955337149 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955347896 The Declaration of Independence was written largely by Jefferson. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. ]]> 2021-12-19 10:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955347896 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955351672 A victory for the North, and slavery was abolished throughout the United States with the ratification of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution.  ]]> 2021-12-19 10:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955351672 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955354413 The NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. ]]> 2021-12-19 10:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955354413 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955356831 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.]]> 2021-12-19 10:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955356831 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955360919 Little Rock Nine, group of African American high-school students who sought admission to the all-white school. The group, consisting of Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed, became the centre of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the US. It took an executive order from President Dwight Eisenhower and his dispatch of U.S. troops to guarantee the safety of the students and assure that integration came about.]]> 2021-12-19 10:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955360919 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955363447 The March on Washington was a massive protest march, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.]]> 2021-12-19 10:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955363447 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955365550 The Civil Rights Act represents a clear turning point in history – a point at which America made a genuine attempt to resolve its contradictions and its constrictions. All Americans, both black and white, have benefited. 

]]> 2021-12-19 10:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955365550 amdolmatovich https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955367907 "Freedom Riders" – members and supporters of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who rode buses to challenge segregation practices on interstate highway routes in the South –   were physically assaulted by angry mobs.]]> 2021-12-19 10:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/amdolmatovich/8h8v56axgkdd3ggf/wish/1955367907