(C block) Religion and social protest: the American Civil rights movement by

(C block) Religion and social protest: the American Civil rights movement by https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h Research key figures of the Civil Rights Movement and add your findings here en-us 2021-01-18 09:06:11 UTC 2022-01-25 10:59:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Ella Baker https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010892653 Ella Jo Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia

As a slave, her grandmother had been whipped for refusing to marry a man chosen for her by the slave owner. Her grandmother’s pride and resilience in the face of racism and injustice continued to inspire Ms. Baker throughout her life.

Baker studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a student she challenged school policies that she thought were unfair.

In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League, whose purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning. She also involved herself with several women’s organizations. She was committed to economic justice for all people and once said, “People cannot be free until there is enough work in this land to give everybody a job.”

Inspired by the historic bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, Baker co-founded the organization In Friendship to raise money to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the deep South.

Miss Baker organized a meeting at Shaw University for the student leaders of the sit-ins in April 1960. From that meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born.

In 1964 SNCC helped create Freedom Summer, an effort to focus national attention on Mississippi’s racism and to register black voters.

Miss Baker, and many of her contemporaries, believed that voting was one key to freedom.

]]> 2022-01-25 10:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010892653 Angela Davis https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010894951 Davis is a major figure in the prison abolition movement. She has called the United States prison system the "prison–industrial complex" (used by scholars and activists to describe the relationship between a government and the various businesses that benefit from institutions of incarceration.) and was one of the founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement to abolish the prison system.

]]> 2022-01-25 10:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010894951 The Little Rock nine https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010897286 The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. 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. They staged a mass sit in raising awareness, even garnering the attention of the Beatles who wrote Blackbird for them.]]> 2022-01-25 10:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010897286 The Freedom Riders https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010899133 •Orginal group of 13 riders- 7 african americans and 6 whites
•Black rider was attacked when they attempted to enter a whites only waiting area
•14/5/1961- Greyhound bus that the riders were on was attacked by an angry mob of 200 white people, someone threw a bomb onto the bus when the tyre blew out. Thankfully they managed to escape the bus but we’re then beaten by the mob when they exited.
•After the incident was widespread the police tried to find the bus driver of the integrated bus but failed and therefore abandoned the Freedom Riders. However Diana Nash organised a group of 10 students from Nashville to continue the rides.
•The US general and the brother of the president began negotiating with bus companies to secure a driver and state protection for the new group of Freedom Riders under police escort on May 20th. However it was still attacked and abandoned by the police again with baseball bats and clubs as they disembarked. The attorney general had to send 600 federal marshals to stop the violence.]]> 2022-01-25 10:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010899133 Moral high ground humanitiesandsocialscience https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010904341 Add an example from the research that you did ]]> 2022-01-25 10:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010904341 CLAUDETTE COLVIN https://padlet.com/humanitiesandsocialscience/k8ixg08gvzhk293h/wish/2010905184 -American Pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retured nurse aide (aged 82)
-She was arrested March 2nd 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama as she refused to give up her seat for a white woman on a crowded segregated bus.
-She was the first person due to this, 9 months before Rosa Parks who was seen as an appealing protester and was therefore noticed more
-Feb 1st 1956 testified to challenge bus segregation however Her case was dropped by civil rights campaigners who felt that the fact her unmarried and pregnant status would affect them

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