TIMELINE by Theresa Murphy https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1 Made with a wish on a star en-us 2019-03-22 12:49:14 UTC 2019-03-22 13:10:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Plessy v Ferguson d_macalle20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344182389 May 18, 1896 
It was the court case that made racial segregation legal. The phrase “separate, but equal” was solidified because of this case. 


]]> 2019-03-22 12:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344182389 Brown v Board of Education t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344187847 Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954
This was a court case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.


]]> 2019-03-22 13:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344187847 Emmett Till is murdered t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188033 August 28, 1955
Till was a 14 year old African American from Mississippi who was murdered because he was accused of offending a white woman. 


]]> 2019-03-22 13:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188033 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188312 Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956
This was where which African Americans refused to ride public buses to protest segregated seating. Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus for a white person, so she was arrested.


]]> 2019-03-22 13:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188312 March on Washington DC t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188981 August 1963
To fight to stop inequalities that African Americans faced and to fight for jobs, 250,000 people gathered in front of Lincoln Memorial. It was at this march where MLK made his famous “I have a Dream” speech.]]> 2019-03-22 13:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344188981 Civil Rights Act 1964 passed t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344189570 July 2, 1964
This was a law that outlawed racial, religious, and gender discrimination.


]]> 2019-03-22 13:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344189570 Malcolm X shot to death t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344190193 Febuary 21, 1965
Malcolm X was a leader in the civil rights movement. 
]]> 2019-03-22 13:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344190193 Black Panthers are founded t_murphy20 https://padlet.com/t_murphy20/msxt9kioejg1/wish/344190705 October 15, 1966
The Black Panthers was a political party formed to prevent the brutality African Americans faced after Malcolm X and Matthew Johnson were killed. They organized Armed citizen patrols in cities to protect African Americans from police.
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