https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q A timeline of important events, people, and organizations that sparked social change in America. en-us 2020-11-21 09:57:22 UTC 2025-01-23 14:47:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2696.png kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004701626 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. ]]> 2020-12-10 01:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004701626 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004708711 The 14th Amendment, which requires equal protection under the law to all persons is ratified. ]]> 2020-12-10 01:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004708711 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004713756 The 15th Amendment, which bans racial discrimination in voting is ratified. ]]> 2020-12-10 01:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004713756 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004726223 President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 outlawing segregation in the U.S. military. ]]> 2020-12-10 02:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004726223 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004732284 The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. ]]> 2020-12-10 02:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004732284 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004765224 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Bus boycott begins and lasts for more than a year. Buses desegregated in 1956.]]> 2020-12-10 02:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004765224 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004769502 The National Guard is called in to block “The Little Rock Nine” from integrating Little Rock High School. President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school.]]> 2020-12-10 02:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004769502 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004779872 Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served.]]> 2020-12-10 02:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004779872 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004784969 To Kill A Mockingbird is published on July 11th. ]]> 2020-12-10 02:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004784969 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004793658 CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) sponsor “Freedom Rides,” which bus student volunteers into Southern states to test new laws prohibiting segregation.]]> 2020-12-10 02:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004793658 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004805937 To Kill a Mockingbird wins the Pulitzer Prize for literature.]]> 2020-12-10 02:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004805937 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004808035 James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.]]> 2020-12-10 02:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004808035 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004816464 Gregory Peck wins an Academy Award for best actor in the film To Kill a Mockingbird.]]> 2020-12-10 02:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004816464 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004831176 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, declaring discrimination based on race illegal.]]> 2020-12-10 03:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004831176 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004844861 A march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, leads to the signing of a new Voting Rights Act.]]> 2020-12-10 03:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004844861 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004849166 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court justice. In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.]]> 2020-12-10 03:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004849166 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004864823 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.]]> 2020-12-10 03:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1004864823 kari_holland https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1008026351 The time period of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. ]]> 2020-12-10 20:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kari_holland/r4p3874yi66qjo6q/wish/1008026351