https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv Conflict and Resolution during civil rights en-us 2021-03-22 16:50:50 UTC 2025-10-18 12:14:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339067384 Although the 15th amendment states that all American citizens have equal voting rights, yet there are laws and policies put into order to keep African Americans from voting]]> 2021-03-22 16:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339067384 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339082023 A court ruling that has allowed schools to segregate students to their own separate schools. The schools were clearly not equal and therefore the education of black students suffered]]> 2021-03-22 17:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339082023 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339097480 African Americans and people apart of the LGBT community are discriminated against in employment opportunities and housing and there were no laws against this.   ]]> 2021-03-22 17:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1339097480 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387595729 After the civil war the african american people we freed from slavery and made citizen in the US, although they were citizens , when they went to vote they were systematically turned away from state polling places. ]]> 2021-04-06 15:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387595729 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387597495 The 15th amendment was passed to make sure they people of color were able to vote, but they still made literacy tests and polling taxes to keep black people from voting. The supreme court made a ruling also they you could only vote if your grandfather voted which kept many african americans from voting. This was debated in the press and on the streets]]> 2021-04-06 15:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387597495 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387598365 Martin Luther King brought hundreds of black people to the polls in Selma Alabama and was denied by the people. In 1964 the 24th amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes. And in 1965 the voting rights act enforced the attorney general to allow black citizens to vote. ]]> 2021-04-06 15:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387598365 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387601021  Since Plessy V. Ferguson there has been widespread segregation and discrimination in public facilities like transportation, restaurants, and bathrooms. The segregated places are clearly not equal even though they are separate]]> 2021-04-06 15:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387601021 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387604111  Interracial and non-heterosexual relationships are a serious taboo and even illegal in many states. Certain marriage laws prevent the government licensing of certificates to interracial couples and there are no states that allow licenses being issues to LGBT couples]]> 2021-04-06 15:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387604111 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387607813 Women are beginning to leave the household norm and instead work in corporate and other white-collar jobs. Unfortunately, they are being treated as lessers to men, being intimidated or treated differently, being paid less, and still expected to take care of the family. ]]> 2021-04-06 15:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387607813 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387612485 Latin American immigrants and workers in the U.S. are working in difficult conditions as laborers and experiencing very poor pay, threats to their citizenship, and intimidation]]> 2021-04-06 15:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387612485 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387614555 People who are LGBT are being arrested for simply being open about their sexual orientations and fired for being open at their jobs.]]> 2021-04-06 15:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1387614555 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388715596 Since there were many things that were segregated in the United States after plessy vs. ferguson schools were included. Children were included in this as well. There were separate schools one for black kids and one for white kids and the white school was much nicer and provided a much better education. ]]> 2021-04-06 19:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388715596 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388756099 After the brown vs. board of education changed the laws about segregation in school the southern congressmen made the "Southern Manifesto" which denounced the decision.Many southern cities went with this as well, they resisted the change with protests and violence. ]]> 2021-04-06 19:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388756099 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388776171 Violent opposition and resistance to desegregation was common throughout the country. In August 1967, more than 13 years after the Brown decision, a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights observed that there was still violence committed towards the black students. ]]> 2021-04-06 19:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1388776171 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389795770 During segregation and the times of Jim Crow there were very few job opportunities for African American people to make money. This kept them from making the same income as the white families. LGBT people were also fired from jobs if they were open about their sexuality. Therefore keeping them from being able to buy property in places white people did]]> 2021-04-07 02:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389795770 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389811235 There were laws made prohibiting minority groups from owning or renting in majorly white neighborhoods. In protest the minorities would offer to pay more than i white family would in order to prove that they were not economically lesser than. ]]> 2021-04-07 02:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389811235 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389819643 It was not until the fair housing act which was passed in 1968 along with the civil rights act that made all housing discrimination illegal. That included all discrimination tactics at the time including racial steering, blockbusing, and redlining ]]> 2021-04-07 02:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389819643 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389828749 When plessy vs. ferguson was passed the law was separate but equal, but any minority including blacks asian LGBT ect. were given non equal opportunities and accommodations. They went to worse schools ate at worse restaurants and had much worse experiences. ]]> 2021-04-07 02:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389828749 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389835648 There were many ways that people protested against the discrimination that they dealt with when it came to public segregation. One very famous example, is college students would ride around in busses, that there not segregated and they would sit together to show they people that this was not hurting anyone and it was equal. ]]> 2021-04-07 02:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389835648 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389842014 De Jure segregation was outlawed by the civil rights act of 1964, in some places it was outlawed earlier. De Facto segregation on the other hand still exists in society today, it was much worse in the 60s but it is something activists are still fighting for today. ]]> 2021-04-07 03:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389842014 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389960926 Before any laws were made being in a homosexual relationship was considered a "crime against nature". In the 1900s piece would raid bathhouses and arrest all of the men in the house for being gay. This was also an issue for all LGBT people at the time. ]]> 2021-04-07 04:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389960926 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389977120 a small group picketed the Whitehall Street Induction Center after the confidentiality of gay men's draft records was violated. This action has been identified as the first gay rights demonstration in the United States. This went on and the LGBT continued to protest, they were treated horribly just like the African Americans.]]> 2021-04-07 04:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389977120 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389983912 As the LGBT community continued to fight for marriage rights, they continued to be denied the right for legal marriage. It wasn't until 2015 that the supreme court made gay marriage legal in every state in the US. ]]> 2021-04-07 04:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389983912 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389990500 Women played a huge role in the civil rights movement, before the civil rights women were expected to marry and have children. Women did join the workforce before the civil rights but they were paid much less and were treated much more than men in the workforce. ]]> 2021-04-07 04:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389990500 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389994534 Women led many protests and worked very hard during the civil rights movement, one example is Gwendolyn Simmons who was a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. She had to fight for the position because she was a women but help organize peaceful protests. ]]> 2021-04-07 04:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1389994534 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1390001046 When the civil rights act was passed in 1964 this was a huge celebration for women in the Us because this meant that they were able to work the same jobs as men. Another success for women in the civil rights movement was the equal pay act which was passed in 1963 which said that men and women needed to be paid the same for the same jobs. ]]> 2021-04-07 04:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1390001046 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392513520 The people that were involved in this problem were Latin americans and other immigrants that came to America to make money and live out the american dream. They did not get the same opportunities and wages as white americans because of their ethnicity. ]]> 2021-04-07 17:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392513520 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392524768 On very important movement that took place was the Chicano movement, this movement changed the law for mexican workers in the United States. It also helped the mexican americans have a voice within the nation. They helped fight with all other minorities for equal rights. ]]> 2021-04-07 17:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392524768 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392540105 A mexican american activist named cesar chavez led a 300 mile protest to bring farming wages to the attention of the government. After this the employer's gave the workers higher wages and better benefits for their efforts. ]]> 2021-04-07 17:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1392540105 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397301412 The people that were involved in this issue were all of the people in the LGBT community, there people were able to be fired for their jobs and faced punishment from the law if they were open about their sexuality ]]> 2021-04-08 18:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397301412 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397314692 One example of the ways that the lgbt community resisted against these prejudices were that they were arrested at a place called the stonewall in, after this there riots outside of this inn and this would be considered the first time there was a gay pride demonstration in NYC]]> 2021-04-08 18:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397314692 20535811 https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397323804 For the first time in 1958 there was a supreme court case where the supreme court ruled in favor of homosexuals. In 1962 Illinois was the first state to decriminalize homosexualality. In 2015 gay marriage became legal in all 50 american states and couldn't be faced with criminal charges. ]]> 2021-04-08 18:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20535811/jv55rpfshm0uz2dv/wish/1397323804