https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8 Key Locations en-us 2023-05-09 20:25:04 UTC 2023-05-10 20:18:44 UTC hello@padlet.com emorga1 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584374206 Violence erupts in Watts, CA in August, 1965, as citizens are outraged because of a traffic stop in which a black man was stopped and arrested by a white Highway Patrol officer. An African American man, Marquette Frye, was pulled over on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Frye resisted arrest, however it is unclear today whether or not the officer used excessive force to detain him. "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." -Britannica. The riots lasted for 6 days starting on Aug 11, 1965. There are conflicting opinions about the riots, some believe that it was caused by opportunists who saw a chance to loot, steal, and cause chaos by burning their own neighborhoods. Others believe that the relationship between the police and the citizens in the area had a long history of mistreatment and the Watts riots was simply a breaking point for the community. Still others blamed poverty, as a result, President LBJ declared a war on poverty across America.]]> 2023-05-09 20:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584374206 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584387690 Nelson Mandela was arrested on August 5, 1962, and sentenced to five years in prison for inciting a workers' strike and leaving the country illegally. He was then found guilty of four charges of sabotage on June 11, 1964, and sentenced to life imprisonment the following day. Mandela was incarcerated for over 27 years, with 18 of those years spent on Robben Island. He was finally released from prison on February 11, 1990, after the South African government under President de Klerk released him. Mandela's commitment to the revolutionary cause made him a target for persecution, and his imprisonment became a critical event in South African history and monumentally impacted the face of the revolution.]]> 2023-05-09 20:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584387690 eortega81 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584390022 In 1948 Arkansas had become the first southern state to admit African Americans to state universities. ]]> 2023-05-09 20:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584390022 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584390120 On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to Memphis to lead a march by striking sanitation workers and was supporting an economic protest by Black sanitation workers. James Earl Ray, a career small-time criminal, was convicted of the assassination and pled guilty to the shooting. The motive behind the assassination is not entirely clear, but Ray claimed that he was a pawn in a larger conspiracy, although there is no evidence to support this claim.]]> 2023-05-09 20:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584390120 ktorres41 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584391182 December 5, 1955 there was a protest with an estimated 5,000 and 15,000 people calling for justice. African Americans had to find ways of transportation because they refuse to ride the buses in the city. The black and Jewish community donated part of their salary weekly. In 1956 the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation. ]]> 2023-05-09 20:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584391182 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584392653 In 1973, followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) staged a 71-day occupation of the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which they seized on February 27, 1973. The protesters demanded that the U.S. government make good treaties from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The conflict originated in an attempt to impeach the chairman of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, but as the tribe split into armed camps, tribal police, and government. The Pine Ridge reservation, where Wounded Knee was located, had been in turmoil for years, and the Oglala Lakota who lived on the reservation faced racism beyond its boundaries and a poorly managed tribal government within them.]]> 2023-05-09 20:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584392653 eortega81 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584394370 In Anniston Alabama about 200 angry whites attacked Bus two.]]> 2023-05-09 20:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584394370 eortega81 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584396925 On September 15 1963, violence once again struck Birmingham. In what came to be known as the Birmingham Church Bombing.]]> 2023-05-09 20:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584396925 emorga1 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584422388 Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as they were "separate but equal". The decision was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

]]> 2023-05-09 21:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584422388 emorga1 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584425944 In 1938, Houston put a team of its best law students under the direction of Thurgood Marshall. under the direction of Thurgood Marshall. Over the next 23 years, Marshall and his NAACP lawyers NAACP lawyers would win 29 of the 32 cases brought before the Supreme Court.]]> 2023-05-09 21:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584425944 emorga1 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584478855 On June 4, 1989, the Chinese government ordered a violent crackdown on students and other protesters gathering in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The protesters had been demanding political and democratic reforms in China, as well as an end to government corruption and repression. However, the Chinese government saw the protests as a threat to its control and authority, and decided to act with force to quell them. Chinese army tanks and troops were deployed in the square, and security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands more. The Tiananmen crackdown became a global symbol of China's lack of political freedom and abuse of human rights, and remains one of the darkest and most infamous episodes in the country's modern history.]]> 2023-05-09 23:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2584478855 ktorres41 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2586047429 Some civil rights workers turned their attention to integrating some southern schools and pushing the movement into additional southern towns. At each turn they encountered opposition and often violence. ]]> 2023-05-10 20:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2586047429 ktorres41 https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2586051564 Fighting for voting rights. Civil rights groups recruited college students and trained them in non-violent resistance. Investigations learned that local police murdered the men. ]]> 2023-05-10 20:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emorga1/mwt4pq4la3dflcw8/wish/2586051564