Civil Rights Movement Timeline by https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5 en-us 2021-12-08 00:18:36 UTC 2025-02-15 03:54:41 UTC hello@padlet.com March On Washington (August 28th, 1963) 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934755883 The March on Washington took place on August 28th, 1963. Leaded by civil rights leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr ect. 

]]> 2021-12-08 00:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934755883 Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956) 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934758448 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.]]> 2021-12-08 00:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934758448 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934762838 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 hastened the end of legal Jim Crow. It gave African Americans equal access to restaurants, transportation, and other public facilities.]]> 2021-12-08 00:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934762838 Claudette Colvin (March 2nd, 1955) 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934765638 On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. She was the first african american women to refuse to give a seat on the bus, before Rosa Parks. ]]> 2021-12-08 00:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934765638 Civil Rights Act of 1957 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934767898 President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first significant civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, into law on September 9, 1957. It made it possible for anybody who attempted to prevent someone from voting to face criminal charges.]]> 2021-12-08 00:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934767898 Voting Rights Act of 1965 00110531 https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934770030 On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, taking the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a step further. The new legislation outlawed all voter literacy tests and gave federal examiners power over specific voting districts.]]> 2021-12-08 00:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/00110531/fbdw5mxway06hv5/wish/1934770030