https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a Made with mirth en-us 2022-01-10 17:44:58 UTC 2025-12-16 11:32:20 UTC hello@padlet.com angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1989343155 on September 15, 1963  a bomb exploded before Sunday  services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The Church was predominantly Black it was also used as a meeting place for a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured. After the bombing thousands of angry Black protesters gathered at the scene of the bombing police were called to break up the violence. White supremacists were suspected to be responsible for the bombing an official investigation was never conducted. The police found the bombers in 1965 and never did anything about it.

]]> 2022-01-13 00:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1989343155 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1990299292 On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He led the civil rights movement since the 1950s. He used speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation and achieve civil rights advances for African Americans. After his assassination almost everyone moured people crowded streets to mourn. Even Vietnam soldiers payed their respects to Dr. King.
Source ]]> 2022-01-13 13:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1990299292 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998144574 On September 3, 1957 nine Black students, " Little rock nine." were going to their first day of school in an all white school. The Arkansas National guard and an angry mob wouldn't let them enter the school. A few weeks later they tried again to go to school but they had to be removed for their safety. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine to and from classes at Central High.
Source]]> 2022-01-18 15:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998144574 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998186980 On December 1, 1955  Rosa Parks sat int the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus after work. Segregation laws at the time made all  Black passengers sit in  seats at the back of the bus. A white man got on the bus and couldn't find a seat and Rosa refused to give up her seat. Rosa Parks was arrested. Her arrest sparked the bus boycott lead by Martin L. King jr.
Source]]> 2022-01-18 15:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998186980 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998200824 Following Rosa Parks arrest Martin Luther King lead the bus boycott from Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956. All black people refused to take the bus anywhere until they were unsegregated. People were arrested for carpooling to work men, people were dragged out of their cars.
Source]]> 2022-01-18 15:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998200824 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998216222 On May 4, 1961, 13 “ The Freedom Riders" seven Black and six white activists took a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C. To the south to protest segregated bus terminals.  The wanted to ensure that they were following the law of desegregated buses. The activist had bombs thrown into the buses they rode.
Source]]> 2022-01-18 15:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/1998216222 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2000925542 On August 28, 1955 Emmett Till was visiting family in Money, Mississippi when he was murdered for allegedly cat calling a  white woman four days earlier. Emmett Till was fourteen years old.  His murders were the woman's husband and her brother. The men killed Emmett and left his body in Tallahatchie River. His mother decided to have an open casket funeral so that everyone could see what the murders did to her only son. Soon after his death Jet, an African American weekly magazine published a photo of Emmett’s body and mainstream media picked it up and shared the story.

Source     ]]> 2022-01-19 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2000925542 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2004015924 On February 21, 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York. Malcolm X was a civil rights activist and a religious leader. He believed that black people should protect themselves instead of just taking it. Malcolm X was on stage speaking at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965  when he was shot. His four daughters and wife were present when he was shot. The men that shot him were found guilty and sentenced twenty years in prison.
Source  ]]> 2022-01-21 00:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2004015924 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2004016651 The Fair Housing Act was put in order to prevent discrimination against people's race, religion, family dissect and sex. This was used a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The House of Representatives quickly passed the Fair housing act days after the assassination Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source]]> 2022-01-21 00:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2004016651 angelisproctor2024 https://padlet.com/angelisproctor2024/j4kx8cg11wqx1c3a/wish/2005395208 Shirley Chisholm was the first African- American woman in congress. She served 7 terms in the house of representatives. She also tried to run for president in 1972. She worked as a nursery teacher before becoming a senator. She had a masters degree in early childhood education from Columbia University.  she joined local chapters of the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Urban League, as well as the Democratic Party club in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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