Driving Miss Daisy - 2017 by Rachell Kozlowski

Voting Rights Act

2017-11-13 15:33:26 UTC

The African Americans were fighting to be able to vote. President Lyndon B. Johnson Ratified the 15th amendment to come into act. It was important because it was a major play in letting the African Americans to be able to vote.

Mississippi Freedom Summer

bbrodkorb — 2017-11-13 15:33:40 UTC

1. Focused on getting Mississippi more voters.
Many blacks and few whites had faced constant abuse.
Ku Klux Klan, police, and state/local authorities committed attacks.
James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman.

2. It sent 1,200 blacks to school and made us realize how bad we are towards blacks. One person had said that the only reason they sounded the alarm was because the two men were white. If it was three blacks that were murdered then no one would have cared because it happens all the time in Mississippi.

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"I have a dream"

2017-11-13 15:33:42 UTC

1. 8 - 23 - 1963
Summary of event:
-who was there
-What happened
MLK had 17 min speech

, JFK, and
More than 250,000

2. Why was this event IMPORTANT in history
The speech changed the course of racism.
It brought even greater attention to the Civil Rights Movement, which had been going on for many years. brought Martin Luther King and his message of nonviolence to a nationwide (and worldwide) audience.

Almost not spoken
Used the phrase “I have a dream” eight times
June 11th, 1963 President John F. Kennedy's televised address called for more civil rights.
June 11th, 1963, Medgar Evers, the NAACP leader was murdered. The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was established in 1909. It was an African-American civil rights organization.
one of the most well-known phrases in America's African-American history.

The Selma March

2017-11-13 15:33:46 UTC

1965
There ended up being 3 total marches that made up the Selma March
From Selma, Alabama to the state capitol of Montgomery
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery after a 5 day, and 54-mile march
Involving the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Also known as “Bloody Sunday”
As they started heading east on U.S. route 80 they got six blocks away from Selma and were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas
The people who attacked were state lawmen and local lawmen
Two days after the attack Martin Luther King Jr. led a symbolic march to the bridge
Finally the leaders sought out the court for more protection for a third, full scale march to the state capitol of Montgomery
The Selma March was important because they were demanding an end to discrimination in voter registration
As a result President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
In Selma 40 years ago there was a bridge that separated the blacks and the whites
The planned march traveled right through the Ku Klux Klan
600 people were planned to participate in the first march, 1,000 in the second
This was known as the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by U.S. Congress
The march was not started at the time planned because they were waiting for King to get back from Atlanta

Brown Vs. Board of Education

mizolman — 2017-11-13 15:34:09 UTC

Who was involved?
Linda Brown and Earl Warren
What happened?
Linda Brown, a third grader was not allowed enrollment in the white school that she lived close to. Instead she had to ride the bus miles away to the closest school for blacks. They put the case on hold to get more opinions, while it was on hold, the chief justice died. He was replaced by Earl Warren who outlawed segregation in schools because he felt that it was unconstitutional.
Importantness?
Brown Vs. Board of Education was important because it helped push along the civil rights movement and it outlawed segregation in schools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1siiQelPHbQ

Alabama Bus Boycott

bhelms3 — 2017-11-13 15:34:28 UTC

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19MNJosaBsJ-r_9ogZmS5puT40zbCEUnBKMt742G5qcE/edit#slide=id.g2ac8b152e7_0_7

Black Panther Party

lshilts — 2017-11-13 15:34:56 UTC

People involved

Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale founded the Party.
Elbert
Sherman Forte
Reggie Forte
Bobby Hutton.
They protested against the police. They wanted them to stop using force by hitting people. Their original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality. They believed that the non-violent campaign had failed. The language of the Black Panthers was violent. They were willing to use violence to get what they wanted. They preached for a Revolutionary War. They were willing for those who were oppressed. The FBI was successful in destroying the party. Those who supported the Black Panther Party said that the FBI used dirty tactics. Some say that they organized the murders of some Black panther Party.

2. Why was it important
It was important because it protected the people from the police. The police were using force so they need to people to stand up to them. This would be called the Black Panther Party. They protected people in their neighborhoods. This helped put a end to police brutality.

The Freedom Ride

lwatson26 — 2017-11-13 15:35:01 UTC

Question 1: More than 400 black and white Americans.
The Freedom Ride had a group of people, black and white, who rode a bus around the south. The blacks and whites were trying to prove a point about how blacks aren’t different because of their skins. The bus would take them to bathrooms and gas stations to where the blacks would use the whites restroom or their water fountains. Some got beaten, threatened, and even taken to jail because of this act.Question 2:The event was important because people risked their lives to try and show people what’s right and that the color of their skin doesn’t matter. They tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Morgan v. Virginia.  Also in Alabama the white people set off a bomb in one of their buses. As people tried to escape, white’s decided to attack and beat them. Question 3:

1957 little rock high school

jrichardson32 — 2017-11-13 15:41:43 UTC

Nine black students enrolled at a formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, testing a landmark, in 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling had declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. This was a key event of the American Civil Rights Movement because they were the first kids to enroll in a strictly all white high school, the kids were escorted to the door. On September 2, 1957, Governor Orval Faubus announced that he would call in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the African-American students’ entry to Central High, claiming this action was for the students’ own protection. the black students got verbal and physical assaults from the white students. Melba Patillo, one of the nine, had acid thrown in her eyes, Elizabeth Eckford was pushed down a flight of stairs,The three male students in the group were subjected to more conventional beatings. Minnijean Brown was suspended after dumping a bowl of chili over the head of a taunting white student. She was later suspended for the rest of the year after continuing to fight back. The other eight students chose to not fight back. On May 27, 1958, Ernest Green, the only senior in the group, became the first black to graduate from Central High School.

1963 church bombing

2017-11-13 15:45:38 UTC

200 members of the church were there four killed, A bomb went off in a church preparing for sunday services
It was a white supremacist act of terrorism against the black community of Birmingham
happened September 15 1963 at 11-am most people got out

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jrichardson32 — 2017-11-13 15:47:03 UTC

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