https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy Made with mirth en-us 2023-02-03 14:23:21 UTC 2026-02-04 20:19:33 UTC hello@padlet.com maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467669578 Rosa Parks got on the bus to go home after a long day of work. She was tired. After she was on the bus, a white man told her to give up her seat and move to the "colored" section but she refused. The police came and arrested her for disturbing the peace and ignoring the segregation laws on the bus. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks#december-1-1955-rosa-parks-is-arrested]]> 2023-02-03 14:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467669578 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467685255 The day of Parks' trial, black people in Montgomery spread the word about boycotting the buses. She was charged with violating segregation laws. The boycott inspired black leaders to take advantage of the passion the people had and keep fighting. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks#december-1-1955-rosa-parks-is-arrested]]> 2023-02-03 14:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467685255 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467709795 Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago. He was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped and beaten to death because he supposedly offended a white girl. On the day of his funeral, his mom ordered an open casket even though he was unrecognizable. She wanted everybody to see what the people in Mississippi had done to her son.  Doing this made everybody realize how bad things were and that it was time for somebody to do something about the racism down south. 
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till]]> 2023-02-03 15:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2467709795 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2470554448 Up until this point in American History, the schools in the south were racially segregated, keeping white and black people separate. Even if people said "separate but equal," nothing was equal about what black people received. In Brown vs. the Board of Education, the supreme court decided that segregation violated the Constitution. This showed a lot of people that black people didn't actually get equal treatment, especially in school. 
This event caused a lot of division, but it made black people realize that they could fight for equality if they tried. 
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brown-v-Board-of-Education-of-Topeka]]> 2023-02-06 18:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2470554448 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472221176 At this point, the Civil Rights movement had been around for a while. Some progress was being made and the fight was being taken to Washington D.C. Years prior, some of the earliest Civil Rights people tried to have a protest in Washington during WWII. Finally it happened after the violence towards protestors in Birminham, and Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech even though President Kennedy thought it would end in violence. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington]]> 2023-02-07 17:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472221176 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472235931 Before President Kennedy's assassination, he had proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which would end segregation, stopping business from hiring because of race. This was one of the things that the Civil Rights movement was moving for. Even thought Kennedy died, President Johnson kept on pushing for the bill. It was met with a lot of backlash from southern Congress members, but it thankfully passed. It was a big win for the Civil Rights movement. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act]]> 2023-02-07 18:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472235931 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472245508 Martin Luther King Jr. always wanted his protests to be peaceful. The march from Selma to Montgomery was meant to be the same until the group made it to the Edmund Pettus bridge. They were marching to protest the violence and death of a civil rights leader. When they got to the bridge, the police hit the protestors with fire hoses, tear gas, and attack dogs and many of them ended up in the hospital. Some protestors wanted to get violent but King wanted to stay peaceful. It was named "Bloody Sunday."
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement#bloody-sunday]]> 2023-02-07 18:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472245508 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472259351 To make the Civil Rights protests cover a wider range, 7 black and 6 which protestors stole a greyhound bus and began driving and protesting segregated bus terminals to test a past supreme court decision. On their trip, they met a lot of other protestors as well as angry citizens. One day the angry citizens stormed the bus and threw in a bomb. Nobody died, but the bus was destroyed and the protestors were bady hurt and beaten. Robert Kennedy arranged for them to get a new bus so they could continue their journey. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement#freedom-riders]]> 2023-02-07 18:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472259351 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472268379 Malcolm X was the other major leader of the Civil Rights movement, but he was not the same as King. He wanted his people to hit back rather than protest peacefully. He thought that if you hit them back, they wouldn't hit you again. This got him a lot of followers. Unfortunately, on February 21st, 1965, he was assassinated by multiple people at a rally. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement#civil-rights-leaders-assassinated]]> 2023-02-07 18:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472268379 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472278631 President Kennedy might not have been the leader Civil Rights movement, but he played a big part in helping its progress. He worked a lot with Martin Luther King Jr. in such times as the march on Washington. He also began the process of pushing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was a big ally of the movement. Unfortunately on November 22nd, 1964, he was shot and killed by an assassin as his car drove down the street in a parade. His death was a big shock and a tragedy. Thankfully President Johnson took office and continued the work of JFK during his administration. 
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated]]> 2023-02-07 18:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472278631 maximuscasello2025 https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472286290 The leader and the biggest influence on the Civil Rights movement was easily Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was the man behind the peaceful opposition of segregation. He had spent a lot of his time in jail because of his protests and his work made a lot of progress towards desegregation. Unfortunately on April 4th of 1968, he was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room. There was a lot of heated passion and violence from Civil Rights protestors after this happened. Robert Kennedy, brother of President Kennedy would make a speech asking the protestors to stay strong even though they had all lost what felt like to them a member of their family. 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement#civil-rights-leaders-assassinated]]> 2023-02-07 18:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maximuscasello2025/n121cbv1i11jk5qy/wish/2472286290