https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo Per. 3: Israel Lozano, Tatiana Chavez, Julian Gonzalez en-us 2021-05-24 00:21:21 UTC 2025-04-04 16:05:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 1883021 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552054789 Under President Truman, this executive order desegregated the armed services. The order was issued on July 26th. ]]> 2021-05-24 00:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552054789 1883021 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552093123 This Supreme Court decision desegregated schools and, by technicality, all public facilities. This undid the previous decision of Plessy v Furgeson, in which the "separate but equal" ruling paved the way for Jim Crow laws that heavily segregated the nation. ]]> 2021-05-24 00:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552093123 1883021 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552094271 On December 1st, Rosa Parks willingly refused to give her front seat up to a white man on a bus which was segregated. She was subsequently arrested by the Montgomery police, sparking what was initially meant to be a one day protest in the city. However, a rising activist by the name of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a mass movement against segregation.]]> 2021-05-24 00:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552094271 1883021 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552099733 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and a social protest campaign that lasted over a year against the policy of racial segregation. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. This later led to a Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery's segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.  (1956)]]> 2021-05-24 00:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552099733 1883021 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552137237 On the first day of nine African-American students' high school year, a white mob and the Arkansas National Guard prevented them from entering Little Rock Central High School. Over the next few weeks, President Eisenhower met with the governor and mayor to deescalate the situation, which went as far as having the students be escorted by US soldiers in order to protect them from violence.]]> 2021-05-24 01:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552137237 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552171761 The Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-ins were peaceful civil rights protests that took place from February to July 1960. They were led by a group of African American college students. The sit-in was at a segregated lunch counter and they refused to leave after being told to.]]> 2021-05-24 01:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552171761 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552174370 Over the summer of 1961, a group of Black and white Americans traveled across the South through public transit in order to see firsthand how well-enforced desegregation of public facilities was. They were met with intense backlash for using the opposite facilities intended for them, the worst of it occurring in South Carolina where they were firebombed and brutally beaten. However, other groups of these "Freedom Riders" popped up across the nation, and the ICC would better enforce the desegregation policy as a result.]]> 2021-05-24 01:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552174370 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552175649 While Martin Luther King Jr. was in Jail, on April 16, 1963, for leading a march of black protesters he wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in response to the people that disagreed with his march.]]> 2021-05-24 01:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552175649 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552179346 From May 2 to May 3, 1963, Rev. James Bevel organized a march of over 1,000 students in Birmingham, Alabama. The purpose of the march was to walk to the mayor and talk about segregation in their city.]]> 2021-05-24 01:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552179346 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552181091 Medgar Evers was an American black civil rights activist in Mississippi. He became a target for those who opposed racial equality and desegregation. He was later shot in the back in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (June 12, 1963)]]> 2021-05-24 01:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552181091 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552184284 On August 28th, roughly 250,000 individuals gathered in Washington, DC in order to bring attention to the various civil rights abuses marginalized communities faced in the US. MLK famously gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, although other speeches were given by some of the other event organizers such as John Lewis and Whitney Young.]]> 2021-05-24 01:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552184284 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552185978 On September 15, 1963, there was a white supremacist terrorist bombing on the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little girls were killed and people were also injured.]]> 2021-05-24 01:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552185978 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552187442 On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United states, was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was taken to the hospital but died 30 minutes later at the age of 46.]]> 2021-05-24 01:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552187442 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552190004 In June 1964, the Freedom Summer Project, a volunteer campaign, wanted to register as many African American voters as they could in Mississippi. Many people were beaten and injured in their attempt. Although, their attempt to register as many African Americans as possible wasn't successful it was one of the reasons the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.]]> 2021-05-24 01:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552190004 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552191089 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark to civil rights and labor law in the United States. It outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools. ]]> 2021-05-24 01:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552191089 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552192428 Malcolm X was an African American Muslim Minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He was also a African American leader in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960's. He was then later assassinated by leader Elijah Muhammad after beginning to disillusion with the Nation of Islam. ]]> 2021-05-24 01:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552192428 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552194006 On March 7th, MLK organized a march from Selma to Montgomery in order to protest Black voter suppression. However, they were met by local law enforcement which brutally attacked the crowd with tear gas, beatings, and even gunfire. The media's coverage and the subsequent public response led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act.]]> 2021-05-24 01:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552194006 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552196530 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. This act was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. ]]> 2021-05-24 01:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552196530 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552198048 Loving v Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Overall, it was a case in which the court held the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.]]> 2021-05-24 01:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552198048 1849244 https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552201401 Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and activist. He was also the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. On April 4th, 1968, as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he was to lead a march, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray. (Hatred was the reason for his doing)]]> 2021-05-24 01:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1883021/8jg4lyj59q41z1eo/wish/1552201401