Civil Rights Movement by Afifah Zahirah https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM Neutrality beats brutality en-us 2018-04-03 03:24:10 UTC 2018-04-03 04:34:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Civil Rights Movement summary deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247981912 1954-1968 (15 years)
African-Americans fighting to secure social rights. ]]> 2018-04-03 03:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247981912 Relevant links deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247982400 https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/civil-rights-movement-overview/]]> 2018-04-03 03:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247982400 I Have A Dream speech deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247982842 Martin Luther King Jr.]]> 2018-04-03 03:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247982842 Jim Crow Legislation (late 1900's) deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247983405 To marginalize blacks, keep them separate from whites and erase the progress they’d made during Reconstruction, “Jim Crow” laws were established in the South beginning in the late 19th century. Blacks couldn’t use the same public facilities as whites, live in many of the same towns or go to the same schools. Interracial marriage was illegal, and most blacks couldn’t vote because they were unable to pass voter literacy tests.]]> 2018-04-03 04:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247983405 Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247984128 In the spring of 1951, black students in Virginia protested their unequal status in the state's segregated educational system. Students at Moton High School protested the overcrowded conditions and failing facility.

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.

North Carolina became the first city in the South to publicly announce that it would abide by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling. "It is unthinkable,' remarked School Board Superintendent Benjamin Smith, 'that we will try to [override] the laws of the United States."]]> 2018-04-03 04:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247984128 Emmett Till's murder, 1955 deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247985451 Emmett Till, a 14-year old African-American from Chicago, visited his relatives in Money, Mississippi, for the summer. He allegedly had an interaction with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a small grocery store that violated the norms of Mississippi culture, and Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam brutally murdered young Emmett Till. They beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river. 

The murderers were voted "not guilty" which caused a big uproar among African-Americans as it was clear there was injustice in the all-white jury.]]> 2018-04-03 04:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247985451 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956 deathstorm235 https://padlet.com/deathstorm235/CRM/wish/247985972 100 days after Emmet Till's death, on December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old woman named Rosa Parks found a seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus after work. Segregation laws at the time stated blacks must sit in designated seats at the back of the bus, and Parks had complied. When a white man got on the bus and couldn’t find a seat in the white section at the front of the bus, the bus driver instructed Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats. Parks refused and was arrested.

As word of her arrest ignited outrage and support, Parks unwittingly became the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.” Black community leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) led by Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr., a role which would place him front and center in the fight for civil rights.
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