https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0 Anali and Madison en-us 2017-03-13 15:24:50 UTC 2025-12-02 01:18:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png mgeorg4874 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160000787 2017-03-14 14:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160000787 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160009798 The Montgomery bus boycott started on December 5th, 1955 until December 20th, 1956. The Montgomery bus boycott was a boycott of all buses in Montgomery Alabama. It was started because of several cases where African Americans refused to sit at the back of the bus. The most famous of these cases was Rosa Parks' refusal to give her seat up. African Americans were choosing not to ride the bus because of segregated seating and, unjust rules. African Americans were forced to sit at the back of the bus. This boycott was the first large scale protest against segregation. ]]> 2017-03-14 15:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160009798 mgeorg4874 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160011928 He was the main guy behind events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington These helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.]]> 2017-03-14 15:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160011928 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160121890 2017-03-14 22:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160121890 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160123002 During the Boycott, the key strategies were to be peaceful and not to ride the bus. The KKK bombed several of the leaders homes and churches but, the protesters remained nonviolent. ]]> 2017-03-14 22:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160123002 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160141218 The fourteenth Amendment was being violated with the enforced segregated seating. ]]> 2017-03-15 01:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160141218 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160141313 This was influential to other Civil Rights groups because it started the MIA and showed that there is hope to end racism. This influenced other groups towards Civil Rights because, it paved the way towards peaceful protests, and real change. ]]> 2017-03-15 01:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160141313 mgeorg4874 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160272193 The March on Washington:
On August 28 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom. The event was designed to help the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. It became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, for racial justice and equality.]]> 2017-03-15 14:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160272193 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160272951 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxt7Cq9qAA5xRGxfYXNDTlJPbGc/view?usp=sharing]]> 2017-03-15 14:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160272951 mgeorg4874 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160275247 William A. Gayle challenged the Alabama state. Referring to segregation on Montgomery buses. Filed by Fred Gray and Charles D. Langford on behalf of four African American women who had been mistreated on city buses. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld a district court ruling that the statute was unconstitutional.
The court case helped American society today because it brought light to the fact of segregation. After the court case it helped to stop segregation]]> 2017-03-15 15:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160275247 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160283862 Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4 1913, in Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Alabama, started a boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation]]> 2017-03-15 15:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160283862 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284119 2017-03-15 15:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284119 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284505 These pictures show how people were trying to make a change in racism. African Americans were  boycotting buses, refusing to give up their seats, and it continued for a year.]]> 2017-03-15 15:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284505 amaldo2096 https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284690 2017-03-15 15:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/amaldo2096/oa7ql7905tj0/wish/160284690