reeces padlet by Reece Marco :) https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9 Made with mirth en-us 2022-01-13 13:12:15 UTC 2022-03-04 16:44:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 1954 May 17In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000775034 the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" The decision outlawed segregation in all public schools in the United States.]]> 2022-01-19 15:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000775034 1957 September 25 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000776844 President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, after unsuccessfully trying to persuade Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to give up his efforts to block desegregation at Central High. Faubus and a mob of whites were forced to allow nine African American children to attend school on this day.


]]> 2022-01-19 15:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000776844 1963 June-August reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000782464 Civil rights demonstrations, protests, and boycotts occurred in every major urban area in the country.

1963 August 28
The civil rights movement reached its peak when 250,000 blacks and whites gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which included the demand for passage of meaningful civil rights laws. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech.

]]> 2022-01-19 15:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000782464 1965 January - March reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000899755 A Voter Registration Drive, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., was launched in Selma, Alabama and throughout the state. On March 7, black voting-rights activists began the fifty-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. They were viciously attacked by police. The national response to violence against the marchers contributed to the passing of the Voting Rights Act.]]> 2022-01-19 16:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000899755 1968 November 5 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000903416 Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman, was elected by New York's Twelfth Congressional District.


]]> 2022-01-19 16:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2000903416 April 4, 1968 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011042928 Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.]]> 2022-01-25 12:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011042928 Sept. 24, 1965 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011045573 Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. It requires government contractors to "take affirmative action" toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment.]]> 2022-01-25 12:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011045573 Aug. 4 1964 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011049887 (Neshoba Country, Miss.) The bodies of three civil-rights workers two white, one black are found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson. James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, had been working to register black voters in Mississippi, and, on June 21, had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on speeding charges, incarcerated for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them.]]> 2022-01-25 12:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011049887 Dec 1 1955 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011053702 NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.]]> 2022-01-25 12:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011053702 Oct 1 1962 reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011056267 James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.]]> 2022-01-25 12:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011056267 Link for Sites reecemarco20241 https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011057891 https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/civil-rights-timeline]]> 2022-01-25 12:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/reecemarco20241/iweo9uevqahe6ar9/wish/2011057891