https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9 en-us 2021-04-30 17:32:32 UTC 2021-04-30 21:20:45 UTC hello@padlet.com 8228792 https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479300630  Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi. Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago IL. He died on August 28, 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. A racist attack that shocked the nation. He provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

]]> 2021-04-30 17:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479300630 8228792 https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479356621  She was born on February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, AL. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She died on October 24, 2005 in Detroit ML. Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was called the mother of the civil rights movement.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks]]> 2021-04-30 17:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479356621 8228792 https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479988521 Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The little Rock Nine were caused by racial segregation in public schools in 1954.Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. The little Rock Nine became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education when they dared to challenge public school segregation by enrolling at the all-white Central High School in 1957. Their appearance and award are part of the Centennial Celebration of Women at Marquette.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration]]> 2021-04-30 21:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1479988521 8228792 https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1480005838 Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama. He was born in July 11, 1897 on Selma, AL.
For more than two decades. He strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960 s. He was Known for his use of police dogs and fire hoses to quell the Civil Rights demonstrations in 1962-1963. He died in March 10 1973 on Birmingham, AL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor

https://www.nps.gov/people/bull-connor.htm]]> 2021-04-30 21:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1480005838 8228792 https://padlet.com/8228792/jrmzfxi0c5ive6o9/wish/1480018893 The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. One of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It signaled that a peaceful protest could result in the changing of laws to protect the equal rights of all people regardless of race. helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

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