Remake of My delightful padlet by Alexander Russo https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi Made with mirth en-us 2022-01-12 16:39:15 UTC 2022-01-25 03:41:12 UTC hello@padlet.com MLK assasination (4/4/68) alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/1990867073 Mlk was shot on his balcony on his second floor room at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.  News of Mlk's assassination started major outbreaks of racial violence in the United States, resulting in over 40 deaths nationwide and property damage in over 100 cities. ]]> 2022-01-13 17:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/1990867073 Birmingham Campaign 1963 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/1990902990 The goal of this campaign was to put an end to racial discrimination in employment.  The campaign included a boycott of certain businesses that only hired white people or had segregated restrooms. Protesters protested in non-voilent ways so that they could try and get arrested so that the city jail would become crowded. Police would use dogs and high pressured hoses against protesters. At the end the campaign would succesfully work after many signs of segregation at Birmingham businesses were taken down and public places soon became useable to people of all races.



]]> 2022-01-13 17:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/1990902990 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000276694 This boycott started the day after after Rosa Parks  was arrested after refusing to move her seat on the bus.  It was proposed by Martin Luther King jr. It was a boycott against racial segregation on the public transportation system. African Americans stopped using public transportation and would walk or get rides instead. The boycott lasted  for 381 days. The   Montgomery bus boycott was very effective and in 1956 the federal court ruled that the laws in place to keep buses segregated were unconstitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. ]]> 2022-01-19 12:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000276694 March on Washington 1963 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000299114 It was the largest political rally ever in the United states. About 200,000-300,000 people were all meet up on the the Mall in Washington, D.C. This took place on August 28, 1963 to protest for jobs and freedom for African Americans. This was also known for MLK's iconic speech and it is credited for helping pass te civil rights act of 1964.]]> 2022-01-19 12:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000299114 Poor peoples campaign 1968 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000543335 It was a multicultural movement that they wanted to gain more economic and human rights for poor Americans from all backgrounds.  The march was set for April 22nd but was postponed after MLK was assassinated. The bill of rights the campaign achieved to establish never became law. At the end the federal government made several programs to end hunger.]]> 2022-01-19 14:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2000543335 Voting rights act 1965 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2007848407 The voting rights act was signed by former president Lyndon B. Johnson.  This act was aimed to  to overcome legal barriers at the state that prevented African Americans from using their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The law put an end to literacy tests that prevented many people from registering to vote]]> 2022-01-24 02:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2007848407 ROSA PARKS 1955 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2007862392 Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. She refused to leave her seat to a white person on a segregated bus in Alabama. She was then arrested for disobeying a law requiring black people to give up their seats to white people . Blacks had to sit at the back of the bus while whites could sit in the front. Her arrest started a boycott of 381 days. ]]> 2022-01-24 03:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2007862392 Vietnam War opposition 1967 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010213080
Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds beinghorrified by the devastation and violence of the war.  The protest was so big that over 300,000 protesters marched NYC and 50,000 moved on the pentagon. another reason why people protested was because they felt it appeared to be unwinnable. https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/us-anti-vietnam-war-movement-1964-1973/#:~:text=In%201967%2C%20300%2C000%20marched%20in,in%20Canada%2C%20or%20went%20underground.
]]> 2022-01-25 03:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010213080 Brown v. Board of Education 1954 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010234334  The U.S supreme court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This decision stated that separate schools for white and black  students were unequal. This event was a major impact to the civil rights movement. ]]> 2022-01-25 03:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010234334 Greensboro sit in 1960 alexanderrusso2024 https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010255517  The greensboro sit in was a civil rights non-violent protest of 4 African American people staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in  North Carolina. The 4 refused to leave after being denied any service. These protests lasted 6 months from feb 1st- July 25th of 1960. This act was turning point in Black history bringing  civil rights movement more into the mainstream.  https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in#:~:text=The%20Greensboro%20Sit%2DIn%20was%20a%20critical%20turning%20point%20in,rights%20in%20the%20United%20States. ]]> 2022-01-25 03:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderrusso2024/pi28yadrat8dr6mi/wish/2010255517