https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g "Black history is American history." -Morgan Freeman en-us 2021-02-03 01:35:47 UTC 2023-01-25 01:53:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156591670 Ron McNair refuses to leave the library until he is able to check out books on his own. He grew up to be the first African American astronaut who went to space! ]]> 2021-02-03 01:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156591670 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156594554 The Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest and refused to get up from the segregated lunch counter. This inspired a series of sit-in protests around the country. ]]> 2021-02-03 01:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156594554 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156598865 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington DC, and Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. ]]> 2021-02-03 01:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156598865 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156605748 Katherine Johnson, working as a computer for NASA, helps the Apollo 13 land safely back on Earth. ]]> 2021-02-03 01:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156605748 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156609603 Lonnie Johnson invents the Super Soaker water gun.]]> 2021-02-03 01:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156609603 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156612285 Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47. ]]> 2021-02-03 01:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156612285 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156625611 Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden overcame gender and racial barriers and made history working for NASA.]]> 2021-02-03 01:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1156625611 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1159527552 Enslaved people were allowed to gather in Congo Square, New Orleans on Sunday afternoons. This is where Jazz music was born, because it was the only place where the enslaved people were allowed to play their traditional music. ]]> 2021-02-03 16:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1159527552 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1164596556 Frederick Douglass was born in 1818, escaped from slavery in 1838, and lived the rest of his life as an abolitionist. ]]> 2021-02-04 16:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1164596556 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1168954492 Chuck Ealy had won every high school and college level football game as a quarterback, but wasn't allowed to play for the NFL because of the color of his skin. He moved to Canada to play football there and was named the MVP. ]]> 2021-02-05 16:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1168954492 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1183081886 Richard and Mildred loving took their case to the Supreme Court and won, making interracial marriage legal in Virginia. ]]> 2021-02-09 16:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1183081886 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1187977684 Children marched in a weeklong nonviolent protest known as the Children's Crusade. Children were arrested and put into jail for protesting. By May 10th, the process of desegregation had begun. ]]> 2021-02-10 15:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1187977684 elohse1 https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1232019068 At age 116, Mary Walker, who had been born into slavery, learned to read and became the oldest student. ]]> 2021-02-23 15:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/elohse1/dgqhg41napsaxc6g/wish/1232019068