https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b en-us 2023-05-25 12:56:13 UTC 2023-05-30 15:17:33 UTC hello@padlet.com longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2604851681 The Civlil rights act of 1964 was to ban discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This meant equality for all.]]> 2023-05-25 13:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2604851681 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2604858750 Martin Luther King Jr died on April 4, 1968. Mr Kings death energized and enraged the Black power movement.]]> 2023-05-25 13:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2604858750 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609258090 Martin Luther King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. The speech made massive progress in the movement.]]> 2023-05-30 14:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609258090 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609262374 If you wanted to vote you had to pay a tax. The Literacy test was to see who was literate and who could vote.]]> 2023-05-30 15:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609262374 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609264179 The Plessy vs. Ferguson case came from the Jim Crow laws which were rules set on discrimination and segregation of AfricanAmericans in American society.]]> 2023-05-30 15:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609264179 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609266432 The Southern Manifesto was to oppose and resist the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.]]> 2023-05-30 15:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609266432 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609270643 Freedom summer was a voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered black voters in Mississippi.]]> 2023-05-30 15:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609270643 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609273395 In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) a unanimous Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The Court declared separate educational facilities inherently unequal. The case electrified the nation, and remains a landmark in legal history and a milestone in civil rights history.

]]> 2023-05-30 15:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609273395 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609274584 Malcolm X was one of the most significant figures within the American Black nationalist movement. Many of the ideas he articulated, like race pride and self-defense, became ideological mainstays of the Black Power movement that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s.

]]> 2023-05-30 15:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609274584 longworthb https://padlet.com/longworthb/prw77x7j64drhv7b/wish/2609276109 The ’67 uprisings helped to usher in a new era of Black activism and empowerment that contributed to reforms in law enforcement, economic inequality and the election of the first Black mayors in the early ’70s in both Newark and Detroit.

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