Civil Rights Movement Time Line by Walid Shourbaji https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5 en-us 2022-12-17 09:49:36 UTC 2023-09-26 08:30:42 UTC hello@padlet.com July 26, 1948 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714362261 July 26, 1948: President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services. And all military's units were getting kinder to one another in the fear of loosing their position.]]> 2023-09-21 08:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714362261 August 28, 1955: lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714365183 Emmett Till, A Black 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral. the death of the kid, brought fear to all black people who heard the story.]]> 2023-09-21 08:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714365183 December 1, 1955 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714366253 December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The white man began to get violent due to his belief of his superiority, despite the man shouting and harming her, she got arrested. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.



]]> 2023-09-21 08:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714366253 In 1865, wshourbaji27 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714366936

 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ended slavery.
]]> 2023-09-21 08:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714366936 January 10-11, 1957 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714368201 January 10-11, 1957: Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states—including Martin Luther King, Jr.—meet up to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation.]]> 2023-09-21 09:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714368201 September 4, 1957 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714369785 September 4, 1957: Nine Black students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked and rejected from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the students out of dangor, however, they continued to be harassed.]]> 2023-09-21 09:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714369785 September 9, 1957 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714370857 September 9, 1957: Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote.]]> 2023-09-21 09:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714370857 February 1, 1960 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714371648 February 1, 1960: Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi. The Greensboro Sit-In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states. This brought the idea that any one can stand up against racism.

]]> 2023-09-21 09:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714371648 November 14, 1960 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714372304 On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges, then six years old, enrols at New Orleans' William Frantz Elementary School as the school's first integrated student, accompanied by four armed federal marshals. The Problem We All Live With (1964), a painting by Norman Rockwell, was inspired by her deeds.

]]> 2023-09-21 09:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714372304 June 11, 1963 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714373618 On June 11, 1963, Governor George C. Wallace blocks two Black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama by standing in a doorway. Up until President John F. Kennedy dispatches the National Guard to the school, the stalemate goes on.

]]> 2023-09-21 09:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714373618 August 28, 1963 lbarsoum271 https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714375146 About 250,000 people participate in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech as the keynote address. He said, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'"]]> 2023-09-21 09:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wshourbaji27/rb4958mo5fn0ybu5/wish/2714375146