The Civil Rights Movement by Samantha Smith https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo H. American History II April 24, 2018 en-us 2018-04-24 15:29:45 UTC 2025-12-20 06:13:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "March on Washington" slsmith7 https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887354
  • August 28, 1963
  • Leaders were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and A. Philip Randolph 
  • More than 200,000 people, black and white,gathered for the peaceful march with the purpose of forcing civil rights legislation and establishing job equality for everyone.
    • ]]>     2018-04-24 15:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887354     Brown v. Board of Education(1954) slsmith7 https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887617
  • landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all.
    • ]]>     2018-04-24 15:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887617     Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) slsmith7 https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887742
  • December 1, 1955, African-American seamstress Rosa Parks was commuting home on Montgomery’s Cleveland Avenue bus from her job. When the white seats filled, the driver, J. Fred Blake, asked Parks and three others to vacate their seats. The other African-American riders complied, but Parks refused.
  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. 
    • ]]>     2018-04-24 15:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887742     Greensboro Sit-in (1960) slsmith7 https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887922
  • The Greensboro Four were four young black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro
  • They were influenced by the non-violent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947
    • ]]>     2018-04-24 15:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254887922     Citation slsmith7 https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254888903 History.com Staff. "Civil Rights Movement." (2009). www.history.com Web. 24 Apr. 2018.]]> 2018-04-24 15:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/slsmith7/pepqo16k1qbo/wish/254888903