Civil Rights Movement by SARAH THERESE TAN https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30 By: Tanvi A, Skyler D, Sydney G, and Sarah T en-us 2017-10-16 19:08:57 UTC 2025-11-22 16:56:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197634877 It was a movement against racial segregation/discrimination in the South. ]]> 2017-10-17 03:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197634877 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197635078 It tried to resist racial oppression and abolish slavery.]]> 2017-10-17 03:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197635078 W.E.B. Du Bois 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197975073 * Harvard University-educated scholar
* leading advocate for African civil rights
* helped form the NAACP]]> 2017-10-17 18:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197975073 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197976398 - United States expanded it's boundaries, but rights were limited to Property Owning White Males

]]> 2017-10-17 18:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/197976398 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075103 - Slavery was abolished, but prejudice and discrimination remained]]> 2017-10-18 02:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075103 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075401 - Jim Crow laws were strengthened, and Supreme Court ruled that "Separate but Equal" was allowed]]> 2017-10-18 02:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075401 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075678 - Most nonwhite people throughout the world were discriminated against as well, including (most) women of all races]]> 2017-10-18 02:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198075678 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198078707 Malcom-X started a movement to empower African Americans, he was the national spokesmen for the Nation of Islam, he was murdered at a conference on February 21,1965]]> 2017-10-18 02:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198078707 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079055 - in 1964 MLK won the noble peace prize, connecting the African American struggle to the anticolonial struggle ]]> 2017-10-18 02:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079055 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079288 In December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus]]> 2017-10-18 02:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079288 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079548 Her actions lead to the start of the Montgomery bus boycott and other protests ]]> 2017-10-18 02:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079548 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079652 Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)]]> 2017-10-18 02:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079652 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079733 -Soon he faced conflict with “black power”]]> 2017-10-18 02:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079733 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079896 MLK was assassinated in April, 1968 ... he played a pivotal role in the civil rights act of 1964, voting rights act of 1965, he gave the i had a dream speech]]> 2017-10-18 02:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198079896 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080349 Founded the southern Christian leadership conference which promoted non violent protest ]]> 2017-10-18 02:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080349 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080397 1963 was the march on Washington, August 28 1963 was when he gave the famous I had a dream speech.]]> 2017-10-18 02:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080397 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080627 April 4 1968 MLK was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, the killing sparked riots in over 100 cities ]]> 2017-10-18 02:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198080627 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081109 The bus boycott lasted until November 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the NAACP to desegregate the bus system]]> 2017-10-18 02:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081109 783303 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081287 His philosophy was armed self defense]]> 2017-10-18 02:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081287 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081954 On February 1, 1960 four black college students had a sit-in at drugstore lunch counter that was meant for whites ]]> 2017-10-18 03:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198081954 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198082719 The sit-in caused thousands of students to stage their own sit-ins during the winter and spring of 1960]]> 2017-10-18 03:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198082719 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083062 Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed by the student protestors
]]> 2017-10-18 03:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083062 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083269 2017-10-18 03:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083269 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083342 After the freedom of slaves in the resolution of the Civil War, African Americans were still fighting to keep their basic civil rights.]]> 2017-10-18 03:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083342 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083360 2017-10-18 03:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083360 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083365 The Freedom Rides of 1961 demonstrated that that the young nonviolent protestors were willing to confront Southern segregation and they encouraged others to participate in similar protests against segregated transportation ]]> 2017-10-18 03:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083365 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083708 Nonviolent protests were an important part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.]]> 2017-10-18 03:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198083708 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198084363 Not only were they trying to show people that they deserve equal rights, but they wanted them to know the consequences of racial discrimination.]]> 2017-10-18 03:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198084363 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198084655 Once confrontations were televised showing the police attack the nonviolent protestors they gained Northern support and federal intervention ]]> 2017-10-18 03:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198084655 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198085380 Once the Birmingham clashes were put on international news it called for Pres. John F. Kennedy to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964]]> 2017-10-18 03:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198085380 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198085493 * publicized racial injustices
* initiated lawsuits - secure equal treatment for African Americans (education, employment, housing and public accommodations)]]> 2017-10-18 03:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198085493 775236 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086101 Protests occurred across the entire nation and during 1965 mass protests in Alabama led to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson to create legislation that became the Voting Rights Act of 1965]]> 2017-10-18 03:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086101 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086493 This organization did civil disobedience at a small scale to fight segregation in the North.]]> 2017-10-18 03:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086493 Brown v. Board of Education 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086713 A case the Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.]]> 2017-10-18 03:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086713 Local Protest 781133 https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086979 In 1951, Barbara Johns walked out of a Virginia High School that has not been desegregated.]]> 2017-10-18 03:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/781133/bxsm4nsl2k30/wish/198086979