https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h Made with mirth en-us 2023-02-03 14:23:24 UTC 2025-11-03 08:56:47 UTC hello@padlet.com jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467672574 Before: Oliver Brown was forced to send his daughter to a school farther away than the school that was closest to their new home because of the supreme court ruling over Plessy v. Ferguson which ruled that segregation did not violate the U.S. Constitution and made it legal in the South.
During: Brown filed a class action lawsuit against the Topeka Board of education. The supreme court picked up this case and ruled in Brown's favor.
Importance: Officially desegregated schools and overruled Plessy v. Ferguson.

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 ]]> 2023-02-03 14:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467672574 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467687379 Before: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. She was arrested and thrown in jail, which kicked off the Montgomery Bus boycott.
During: The Montgomery Bus boycott put the name Martin Luther King out there who led the boycott on December 5th peaceful protest and then boycotted the busing system.
Importance: The busing company was losing money because of the protest and decided to give in. Segregated seating was ruled unconstitutional and upheld by the supreme court.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement]]> 2023-02-03 14:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467687379 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467699130 Before: After Schools were desegregated nine black students attended their first day of Central High School in Arkansas 
During: The nine students were met with an angry mob of white people and the Arkansas National Guard who turned them away. President Eisenhower was sent in U.S soldiers to escort and protect the nine students to school and during classes.
Importance: Eight of the nine students completed their academic year. The situation gained international attention and shed light on the struggle between federal and state power.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement]]> 2023-02-03 15:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467699130 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467720843 Before: Four black students from North Carolina A&T who would later be known as the Greensboro Four made purchases at a local department store and then sat at the White Only counter. 
During: The four students were refused service and stayed until closing. They returned the next day with five times the amount of people. 
Importance: Every day the sit-in grew in size and the diner was soon always occupied. When one of the protesters was arrested another would replace them in the diner. The protest grew to take into other cities until all facilities were forced to desegregate throughout the country.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement ]]> 2023-02-03 15:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467720843 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467731565 Before: A six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted to her first day of an all-white elementary school in New Orleans by four federal marshalls.
During: Upon arriving at the elementary school they were met by an angry mob of white people. White people removed their children from Ruby's class until she was being taught alone.
Importance: This event led to the creation of the famous Rockwell painting "The problem we all live with" painted four years later.

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]]> 2023-02-03 15:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2467731565 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472545044 Before: On May 4th, 1961 the freedom rides began. Seven African Americans and six white people took a bus from Washington D.C to New Orleans to test out the new supreme court ruling on interstate bus desegregation. 
During: The two now equal groups used each other's bathrooms as their buses stopped along the route. One of the buses stopped to repair a slashed tire on the road. The parked bus was firebombed then the riders were beaten. As riders were either arrested or beaten they were replaced by fresh groups of riders to complete the trip.
Importance: After the corresponding events took place the current U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ordered the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce the segregation bans more strictly and harshly that took place the September of that year.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement]]> 2023-02-07 22:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472545044 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472559265 Before: Martin Luther King Jr. and his group the SCLC launched a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. He partnered up with a local pastor named Fred Shuttlesworth and the ACMHR.
During: Marches, Sit-ins, Mass protests, and Economic boycotts took place in and around the city. King and others were arrested and placed in solitary confinement. Once King got out he organized the Children's Crusade where school kids and volunteers would skip school and marched. The commissioner of public safety ordered police and firemen to use attack dogs and high-pressure water hoses to attack the peaceful protesters.
Importance: The media was outraged by this and the protests garnered nationwide attention. The current president at the time JFK proposed a civil rights bill on June 11th. Tensions were still high in Birmingham and on September 15th a bomb went off in a baptist church killing four young African American girls and injuring 14 others.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement]]> 2023-02-07 22:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472559265 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472568746 Before: All demonstrations and events led up to it all accumulating into one massive march on Washington D.C for freedom, civil rights, and jobs. 
During: A crowd of 250,000 people gathered peacefully on the National Mall to listen to speeches given by Roy Wilkins and most importantly MLK.
Importance: This was the day the famous "I have a dream" speech was given by King and was a push in the right direction to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement  ]]> 2023-02-07 23:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472568746 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472588021 Before: The Civil Rights Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law, was a strengthened version of what President Kennedy had proposed the summer before he was assassinated in November 1963.
During: The law gave the federal government the power to outlaw racial discrimination in the workplace, at the polls, and when using public spaces.
Importance:  the legislation was a major victory for the civil rights movement and became the foundation of racial equality.

 the legislation was a victory for the civil rights movement.

]]> 2023-02-07 23:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472588021 jamescolonieskelley2025 https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472598192 Before: Malcolm X, a well-known black civil rights activist was killed on February 21, 1965, while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. Malcolm X was a powerful public speaker who called for the civil rights movement to go beyond civil rights and focus on human rights.
During: when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "N-word! Get your hand outta my pocket!". As Malcolm and his bodyguards tried to calm the crowd after the disturbance Two men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. One man shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. At 3:30 pm, not long after arriving at the Hospital, Malcolm X was pronounced dead.
Importance: Malcolm argued that the solution to racial problems was in orthodox Islam. His speeches and ideas contributed to the development of Black nationalist ideology and the Black Power movement.]]> 2023-02-07 23:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jamescolonieskelley2025/j782fvl1xzw5tm3h/wish/2472598192