https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9 Made with mirth en-us 2023-02-03 14:23:32 UTC 2025-11-05 00:22:48 UTC hello@padlet.com giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2467715415 The Montgomery Boycott was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. It occurred because during the time black people were not allowed to sit in the front and a women named Rosa Parks was sitting in the front of the bus and a white man approached her and told her to move and she wouldn't give up her seat. Following this the locals went on a strike for a year and did not take the bus all year. This is an important event because it was one of the first people to stand up to the racism and do something about it.]]> 2023-02-03 15:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2467715415 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471662039 In the famous 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the justices held unanimously that racial segregation of students in public schools was unconstitutional. One of the pillars of the civil rights movement was Brown v. Board of Education, which helped set the precedent that "separate but equal" education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. What caused this was segregation in public schools.]]> 2023-02-07 12:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471662039 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471671579 Ruby Bridges, age 6, is accompanied by four armed federal marshals as she enrolls at New Orleans' William Frantz Elementary School as the school's first integrated pupil. What caused this was that many people threatened to hurt Ruby because they were upset that she was able to go to a public school. This is an effect of the Brown V. Board of Education.]]> 2023-02-07 12:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471671579 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471681400 From the middle of the 1950s until his assassination in 1968, Baptist clergyman and social activist Martin Luther King Jr. was a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement. King used nonviolent protest to demand equality and human rights for African Americans, the underprivileged, and all other victims of injustice. He was the impetus behind historic actions like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, among other important pieces of legislation. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday in the United States since 1986, is observed every year to honor King, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. What caused him to do all of his courageous acts was the racism and segregation that was going on during the time and he knew he had to change that.]]> 2023-02-07 12:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471681400 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471687820 Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. What caused this was the discrimination of black people.]]> 2023-02-07 12:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471687820 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471693051 Young African American students in Greensboro, North Carolina, staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960 and refused to leave after being refused service. This action was the beginning of the Greensboro sit-in, a civil rights protest. The sit-in movement quickly extended to Southern college towns. Despite the fact that many of the demonstrators were detained for trespassing, disruptive behavior, or disturbing the peace, their efforts had a significant and long-lasting effect, causing Woolworths and other businesses to modify their segregationist practices. What caused this was racism to not server african americans at resturants.]]> 2023-02-07 12:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471693051 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471698979 In order to protest segregated bus terminals, groups of white and African American civil rights activists took part in Freedom Rides, bus excursions through the American South in 1961. In Alabama, South Carolina, and other Southern states, Freedom Riders attempted to use "whites only" facilities and lunch tables at bus terminals. Along their itineraries, the groups encountered arresting police officers and were brutally attacked by white protesters, but they also brought the civil rights struggle to the attention of the world. What caused this was segregation that didn't allow African Americans to use a white person bathroom.]]> 2023-02-07 13:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471698979 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471716863 A large-scale protest march is known as the "March on Washington" took place in August 1963 in Washington, D.C., when around 250,000 people congregated in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The rally, also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, sought to raise awareness of the difficulties and injustices that African Americans now confront a century after freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his now-famous "I Have a Dream" address on that date as well. This was caused that because many were fed up with racism and segregation. ]]> 2023-02-07 13:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471716863 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471727046 The 16th Street Baptist Church experienced a bombing on September 15, 1963, as churchgoers were getting ready for Sunday worship. Four young girls were slain in the racially motivated incident, which shook the country. What caused this was a group of racist people that were getting upset at the black community for standing up for themselves so they planted bombs in a black church.]]> 2023-02-07 13:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471727046 giovanniaguiarortiz2025 https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471730746 One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of the civil rights movement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and put a stop to segregation in public spaces. Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who succeeded John F. Kennedy, signed it into law after it withstood fierce resistance from southern members of Congress. The Voting Rights Statute of 1965 was one piece of further civil rights legislation that Congress approved in the years that followed, expanding the original act.]]> 2023-02-07 13:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/giovanniaguiarortiz2025/cai1154epthr1by9/wish/2471730746