https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs Made with magic en-us 2022-03-29 16:03:24 UTC 2022-04-03 04:06:19 UTC hello@padlet.com socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119722593 War between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam which was backed by America because since the Cold War they were scared of the threat of communism and wanted it to stop. Over 3 million people died, there were many protests because lots of Americans thought the US shouldn't have been involved in this fight, in the end North Vietnam won and the war was called the victory war by the Vietnamese. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119722593 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119748580 A protest Rosa Parks started against segregation when she refused to sit at the back of the bus resulting in black people boycotting public transit because they refused to have separated seating laws and only be allowed to sit at the back of the bus. This worked because 75% of the people who rode the bus were black, and after this black people started getting accepted more because the discrimination they faced was shown. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119748580 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119750443 Schools segregated black and white students so black students had to go to different schools. Mr. Brown wanted his daughter to go to the school in her neighbourhood which was a white school, so he took the board of education to court and proved that white and black schools weren’t equal and then the court said schools should not be segregated anymore.]]> 2022-03-29 16:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119750443 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119767122 To protest segregation a group of black and white people sat  together on chartered busses. The protest was meant to be non-violent but white mobs made it violent, at one point beating the riders and fire bombing the bus. The freedom riders showed people that they can accomplish things that seem impossible.]]> 2022-03-29 16:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119767122 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119770388 Martin Luther King was arrested because he was leading protests, at one of the biggest rallies “March on Washington” he gave the I Have a Dream Speech. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for non violently fighting against racism. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2119770388 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122302796 John Kennedy was the president of the US, he supported the civil rights movement and was a progressive president. There were many conspiracies about his murder, but as far as we know he was shot in Dallas, Texas during a motorcade procession. Many hundreds of thousands attended his funeral and confidence was lost in the government by many people.

]]> 2022-03-30 21:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122302796 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122314788 Malcolm X grew up in extreme poverty, he was a Muslim minister, who was a leader of Black Civil Rights. While protesting he used fear and was violent, at the age of 39 he got assassinated. ]]> 2022-03-30 21:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122314788 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122322593 This march was 3 parts to raise awareness for black voting rights because only 2% of black people were registered to vote at the time, it went from Selma, to Edmund Pettus Bridge where people were stopped by police violently, to Montgomery, Alabama which was very racist at the time. It was mostly peaceful and even Martin Luther King Jr joined, but eventually the KKK attacked 3 supporters who were white ministers, a few months later President Johnson signed the bill so Black People could vote.]]> 2022-03-30 21:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122322593 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122330942 This was a very violent political party, that had a lot of problems within the group, but they fought for many things such as, fair employment, equal rights, stopping police brutality, events to help poverty, etc. During the civil rights movement they fought for black rights, in the US they had organized gun patrols by citizens, and the FBI labeled them as communists and came up with fake evidence to try to break them up.]]> 2022-03-30 21:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122330942 socials447 https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122337090 Nixon tapped information that was coming in and going out of the white house because from the white house Daniel Ellsberg released confidential papers about the Vietnam War hoping the war would end. Nixon denied involvement when at the Democratic Headquarters there was a break-in, he was re-elected but he was the one who paid the burglars hush money, which made him resign as president. People don't know why the break in happened, and this showed how powerful the media was and people stopped trusting the government. ]]> 2022-03-30 21:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/socials447/bxwbger01791g9bs/wish/2122337090