Civil Rights by Leilani Santana https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2021-03-22 16:41:44 UTC 2025-10-25 16:47:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Problem #1 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383626396 Different states have created laws that have directly kept African Americans from voting including poll taxes and literacy tests.]]> 2021-04-05 15:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383626396 Problem #2 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383628111 Plessy V. Ferguson has nationally allowed states to segregate school systems to keep races to their own schools. However, the schools are clearly not equal, which prevents Black communities from having equal opportunities.


]]> 2021-04-05 15:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383628111 Problem #3 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383629291   Throughout the country African Americans and LGBT are being discriminated against in employment opportunities and even housing just because of their skin color or sexual orientation. There are no laws preventing such practices.]]> 2021-04-05 15:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383629291 Problem #4 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383630911 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.


]]> 2021-04-05 15:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383630911 Problem #5 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383632159    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. ]]> 2021-04-05 15:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383632159 Problem #6 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383633995  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. ]]> 2021-04-05 15:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383633995 Problem #7 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383635613 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.]]> 2021-04-05 15:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383635613 Problem 8 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383636719 People who are LGBT are being arrested for simply being open about their sexual orientations and fired for being open at their jobs.]]> 2021-04-05 15:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383636719 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383728035 President Lyndon Johnson outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. He said it was voter discrimination.
Medgar Evers
Black veteran stopped by a white mob from voting, became a civil rights leader in his native Mississippi. He was shot and killed in front of his home by a white segregationist in 1963.




]]> 2021-04-05 16:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383728035 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383730651 The Lovings
American married couple who were the plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. They fell in love in a time where their love was illegal.]]> 2021-04-05 16:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383730651 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383733349 Ruby Bridges
The first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Little Rock Nine
 Group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.]]> 2021-04-05 16:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383733349 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383737111 Martin Luther King
leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He encouraged non-violent tactics and had a very large following
Malcom X
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement.  He encouraged violence in order to make their voices heard.]]> 2021-04-05 16:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383737111 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383738044 Kathy Kozachenko
First openly gay American elected to public office when she wins a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council.
Harvey Milk
Responsible for introducing a gay rights ordinance protecting gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs. Milk also leads a successful campaign against Proposition 6, an initiative forbidding homosexual teachers.]]> 2021-04-05 16:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383738044 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383738616 Martin Luther King
helped pave the way for the passing of the fair housing act by being vocal about the problems that minorities faced when it came to housing problems.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the president that signed the fair housing act.]]> 2021-04-05 16:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383738616 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383739309 Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was a latino civil rights activist who fought for the rights of Latin American immigrant farm workers. He dedicated his life to working towards better working conditions, better pay, and the right to unionize all by using non-violent tactics.
United Farm Workers of America
This organization fights to improve wages and working conditions. It also works to promote nonviolence and to educate members on political and social issues.]]> 2021-04-05 16:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383739309 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383754985 Voters intimidation
was used in order to prevent African Americans from registering to vote.Things such as literacy test and tax polls were set in place to prevent African Americans from extercising their right to vote, especially in the south.
Marches
600 black and white civil rights protesters passed through Selma. They were met on the other side by a large force of Alabama state troopers, who ordered the marchers to return to Selma. When the marchers refused to turn back, the troopers attacked.]]> 2021-04-05 16:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383754985 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383757032 Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a law established in order to keep segregation. This meant that U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal. This was there was of making it just. Although things were supposed to be "separate but equal" this was not upheld. Black schools were not run the same way, because they did not have access to the same resources that white schools had therefore giving black students less opportunity.]]> 2021-04-05 16:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383757032 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383759240 Marches
Civil rights activists protested racial discrimination in housing in marches across the city. The March on Milwaukee contributed to the national fight for civil rights for African-Americans and to passage of the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968.]]> 2021-04-05 16:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383759240 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383764057 Marches
Marches were used to walk through town and gain attention. A lot of the times, police would step in and shut them down by acting violently towards the protestors.
Sit-Ins
Sit-ins were done usually at restaurants to force desegregation. The people partaking in them would usually be harassed and would have authorities called. 
Freedom Rides
When black and whites ride the bus together to show the general public that there is nothing wrong with doing that. Sometimes, the buses would be set on fire.
Jim Crow Laws
laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. This included the segregation of businesses.
]]> 2021-04-05 16:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383764057 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383953351 President Lyndon Johnson outlawed the discriminatory voting practices  in order to give everyone the equal opportunity to vote without having to past things such as literacy test that were put in place to keep minorities and African Americans from voting.]]> 2021-04-05 17:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1383953351 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389724624 Marches
One of the tactics they would use to protest was marches. The farmers would leave the farms and go out into the city in order to get noticed more as they were not being taken seriously.
Non-Violent Protest
Another way they kept their credibility was by making sure none of their tactics were violent in any ways. Instead they resorted to strikes, fasts, and marches that were more on the peaceful side of things.]]> 2021-04-07 02:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389724624 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389735951 Through the work of the United Farm workers of America and Cesar Chavez, the Latin American farmers gained better pay and better working conditions. Chavez's work is still influential until this day, an he is known globally for his efforts.]]> 2021-04-07 02:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389735951 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389802629 Brown V. Board of Education
This ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.]]> 2021-04-07 02:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389802629 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389847103 Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity.]]> 2021-04-07 03:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389847103 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389924540 Street Rallies
They hosts street rallies in order to be where they would be noticed the most and get on the media in order to draw more attention to their cause.]]> 2021-04-07 03:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389924540 Solution/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389927921 Changes that were made include equal pay for equal work, an end to domestic violence, curtailment of severe limits on women in managerial jobs, an end to sexual harassment, and sharing of responsibility for housework and child rearing. Although these things still happen today, the feminist movement in the 1960's Brough attention to the issues.]]> 2021-04-07 03:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389927921 People Associated 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389947486 Gloria Steinem
Leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine.
Dorothy Pitman Hughes
is a feminist, child-welfare advocate, African-American activist, public speaker who was a big spokesperson for the feminist movement.]]> 2021-04-07 04:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1389947486 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1391672532 Fair Housing Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap and family status.]]> 2021-04-07 14:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1391672532 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1401183236 Loving v. Virginia
civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.]]> 2021-04-09 18:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1401183236 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1401189768 As a tactic, people of different races who were in love were still together, they just wouldn't not get married since it was illegal.]]> 2021-04-09 18:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1401189768 Tactics Used 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1408157134 Stonewall riots 
police officers attempt to raid the popular gay bar around 1am. The bar had been frequently raided by police officers trying to clean up the neighborhood of "sexual deviants." Angry gay youth clash with aggressive police officers in the streets, leading to a three-day riot ]]> 2021-04-12 16:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1408157134 Solutions/Changes 21593741 https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1408256232 Obergefell v. Hodges
June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states, and required states to provide same-sex marriage licenses]]> 2021-04-12 16:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21593741/kh2duc1swey1brkt/wish/1408256232