https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i en-us 2023-04-04 18:19:11 UTC 2025-10-21 15:33:54 UTC hello@padlet.com casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544027358 Rosa Parks was sitting in a bus and she refused to give up her seat for a white man, so she was arrested and thus a boycott for the bus started. Since the bus business was not doing good, the boycott worked. ]]> 2023-04-04 18:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544027358 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544033078 The Albany Movement was formed on Nov. 17, 1961 when, led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, various civil rights organizations came together to challenge segregation and work for voting rights.]]> 2023-04-04 18:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544033078 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544034469 The protests gained national attention and eventually ended segregation at city restrooms, drinking fountains and lunch counters and removed barriers to African American employment at city stores.]]> 2023-04-04 18:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544034469 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544035657 Commonly referred to as the March on Washington, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.]]> 2023-04-04 18:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544035657 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544037724 Breadcrumb. Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a march held in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 for the 600 people attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law enforcement officers beat unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas.

]]> 2023-04-04 18:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544037724 casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544041455 The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr James Bevel, and Al Raby was created to challenge the systemic racial segregation and discrimination in Chicago and its suburbs. ]]> 2023-04-04 18:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544041455 casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544043254 Vietnam War protests began among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses, but gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam in earnest.]]> 2023-04-04 18:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544043254 casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544044528 In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. ]]> 2023-04-04 18:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544044528 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544046813 In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.]]> 2023-04-04 18:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544046813 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544048296 The Newark uprising began on July 12 when a Black cab driver was beaten by two white police officers for a minor traffic offense. The five days of rioting and looting that followed produced 26 deaths, 700 injuries and more than 1,400 arrests. The National Guard and state troopers were called in to restore order.]]> 2023-04-04 18:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2544048296 casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546513812 MlK Jr. was killed because people disagreed with his great ideas. And they wanted no change ]]> 2023-04-06 17:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546513812 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546516394 Landmark 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.]]> 2023-04-06 17:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546516394 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546521435 On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation.

]]> 2023-04-06 18:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546521435 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546522911 When Ruby was in kindergarten, she was chosen to take a test to determine if she could attend an all-white school. This was due to the 1954 Supreme Court ruling of Brown vs. The Board of Education which ordered all schools to desegregate.]]> 2023-04-06 18:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546522911 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546523325 During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.]]> 2023-04-06 18:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546523325 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546524729 The protests gained national attention and eventually ended segregation at city restrooms, drinking fountains and lunch counters and removed barriers to African American employment at city stores.]]> 2023-04-06 18:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546524729 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546525299 In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

]]> 2023-04-06 18:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546525299 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546526270 The Selma Marches were a series of three marches that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South.]]> 2023-04-06 18:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546526270 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546527321 The riots resulted in the deaths of 34 people, while more than 1,000 were injured and more than $40 million worth of property was destroyed. Many of the most vivid images of the riots depict the massive fires set by the rioters. Hundreds of buildings and whole city blocks were burned to the ground.]]> 2023-04-06 18:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546527321 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546527789 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.]]> 2023-04-06 18:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546527789 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546529728 In Oxford, Mississippi, James H. Meredith, an African American student, is escorted onto the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off a deadly riot.]]> 2023-04-06 18:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546529728 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546530836 Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote — even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible.]]> 2023-04-06 18:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546530836 casch559 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546536170 The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.]]> 2023-04-06 18:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2546536170 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549271388 In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.]]> 2023-04-10 21:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549271388 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549271936 Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.]]> 2023-04-10 21:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549271936 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549272359 The 16th Amendment gives the Federal Government the power to levy an income tax on all income earners in the United States]]> 2023-04-10 21:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2549272359 kmram007 https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2550530375 On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk alleged that Floyd made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill.]]> 2023-04-11 17:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/casch559/m6bctfg7h2raea2i/wish/2550530375