https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0 en-us 2017-03-02 15:27:56 UTC 2025-11-05 21:56:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157367012 Abolished slavery in the United States]]> 2017-03-02 15:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157367012 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157367822 Sought to extend national rights to citizens regardless of their race]]> 2017-03-02 15:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157367822 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157368344 Prohibited deprivation of voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude]]> 2017-03-02 15:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157368344 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157369051 Jackie Robinson was the first African American to receive a contract to play Major League Baseball. This first break in organized baseball's segregation practices in 1945 paved the way for other talented black athletes to enter the sport. ]]> 2017-03-02 15:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157369051 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157370194 Emmett Till was an African American teenager who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi in 1955 because he allegedly made advances towards a white woman.]]> 2017-03-02 15:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157370194 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157370749 There was no more segregation in the Military ]]> 2017-03-02 15:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157370749 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157371293 Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who has been called "the mother of the civil rights movement" because of her courage when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.]]> 2017-03-02 15:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157371293 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157371874 Nine African Americans enrolled in High School. They were the first to ever do so. ]]> 2017-03-02 15:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157371874 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157372187 The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent demonstrations by African American college students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.]]> 2017-03-02 15:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157372187 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157372868 A landmark event in the civil rights movement, the 1961 Freedom Rides were a series of organized interstate bus rides meant to directly confront discriminatory Jim Crow Laws found in the Southern states. Made up of students and veteran civil rights activists, the Freedom Riders were enacting a form of civil disobedience. ]]> 2017-03-02 15:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157372868 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157374357 The protests in Birmingham were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) against racial segregation. The Birmingham campaign became a turning point in the struggle for civil rights as the SCLC led a series of boycotts and peaceful demonstrations in the city's downtown area.]]> 2017-03-02 16:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157374357 madyson_cavaness_552 https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157376128 2017-03-02 16:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/madyson_cavaness_552/i9fp2aycqzz0/wish/157376128