Ernest green was part of the Little Rock Nine. When he was thirteen he was shot because he was grabbing some fallen fruit off of a white woman’s property.

ballots for president in 1860, the

hostility between many white

Northerners and white Southerners was

visible to everyone. The issue that divided

them was slavery—the legal ownership of

one human being by another. For thousands

of years, the institution of slavery had raised

no moral questions. Many people in many

lands accepted it as a natural part of society.

In the early 19th century, a small but growing

number of people began challenging the

practice on religious and moral grounds. The

result set the stage for political conflict in the

United States.

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to white person. Civil Right supporters started a bus boycott after the incident with Rosa Parks. Later she was known as “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”

Information from “route to freedom.”

“It seems almost incredible that the advocates of

liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a

fellow creature to slavery.”

—jamEs ForTEn

James Forten was born free in Philadelphia in 1766.

He joined the Continental Navy during the American

Revolution and later became a sailmaker, and then a wealthy

cause when he was killed by an antislavery mob in 1837. When people tried burning down a warehouse Lovejoy ran out stop them but was shot and killed.

Carrying axes and pipes, the mob slashed the bus' tires.

Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window.

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 or 1821 on a large plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was born in a small one room log hut. The hut she was born in had a dirt floor, no windows and no furniture.

In 1835 Harriet came between a master and a slave who was running away. The master threw a metal weight at the runaway. It his Harriet instead. Harriet almost died because of it.

Constitution did not allow states to make rules to keep black students out of some schools just because they were black. The Supreme Court ordered all public schools to integrate, to allow black students and white students together in the same schools and classes.

In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman, a free man. They lived in his cabin near the plantation.

Fourteen year old Emmett till is murdered in money,Mississippi,for supposedly whistling at a white woman.

During the years between 1850 and 1860, Harriet worked as a cook, dish washer, and cleaning woman. She used much of her money to make 19 trips south to lead about 300 slaves to freedom. Many of them were her relatives

Constitution did not allow states to make rules to keep black students out of some schools just because they were black. The Supreme Court ordered all public schools to integrate, to allow black students and white students together in the same schools and classes.

There were many reasons for the Great Migration. Southern blacks could not vote. Finding

work was hard. Housing and schools were poor. Blacks and their families were not safe. Mobs

of whites punished black people for no reason.

Her emotional descriptions made many sympathetic readers change their minds about slavery.

Rosa Parks was riding the bus home on December 1, 1955, when she was ordered to forfeit her seat. Instead, 42-year-old Parks then slid over to the window. With that, she was arrested

She was born a slave and did not save herself until she was almost 30. She was a conductor on the under ground rail rode, and helped so many slaves escape the south and move to the west.

In 1868 we have heard about how congress discussed the 14th amendment before it was adopted in 1868. We heard about the segregation practices that existed then.

A mob of around 50 people surrounded the bus, hurling rocks and bricks through the windows.

Carrying axes and pipes, the mob slashed the bus' tires.

Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window.

attempted to go to an all white high school. They were called Little Rock nine. They were about to change history By just simply going to school.

Alabama. It started when George C. Wallace was elected governor. That January, Wallace delivered a powerful speech. He vowed to defend the white South from integration.