https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders The faces of equality that changed America forever en-us 2018-06-13 19:29:31 UTC 2024-12-07 04:20:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 0 lawoman1990 https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267080653 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement in America. She is most famous for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was born in Tuskegee, AL. She is known as the "First Lady of Civil Rights." 
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused the orders of a bus driver to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that would play a huge role in the resistance to racial segregation the USA.]]> 2018-06-13 19:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267080653 lawoman1990 https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267081590 Daisy Lee Gaston Bates, born in 1914 in Arkansas, was a journalist, community organizer, publisher, and civil rights activist. She played a role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. With the help of her husband, she published a local black newspaper, called the Arkansas State Press, that publicized the violations of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings. ]]> 2018-06-13 19:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267081590 lawoman1990 https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267082588 A. Phillip Randolph was a prominent member of the labor organizing movement, as well as the civil rights movement. He organized the first majority black labor union, known as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Along with Bayard Rustin  and Martin Luther King Jr., he helped lead the March on Washington. ]]> 2018-06-13 19:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lawoman1990/civrightsleaders/wish/267082588