https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks Made with a dash of wit en-us 2022-05-10 13:49:52 UTC 2026-01-29 00:06:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177667506 A female civil activist named Rosa parks is arrested for refusing to vacate her seat and move to the rear of a city bus in Montgomery to make way for a white passenger , So Mlk decided to do a one day boycott of the city buses.]]> 2022-05-10 14:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177667506 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177676997 Martin Luther king becomes president of the MIA (Montgomery improvement Association).  the MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott , a successful campaign that focused national attention on racial segregation in the South and catapulted King into the national spotlight.]]> 2022-05-10 14:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177676997 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177689262 Martin Luther king gets receives a threatening phone call late in the evening, prompting a spiritual revelation that fills him with strength to carry on in spite of persecution. On the 30th 9:15 pm , while King speaks at a mass meeting, his home is bombed. His wife and daughter are not injured. Later King addresses an angry crowd that gathers outside the house, pleading for nonviolence. ]]> 2022-05-10 14:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177689262 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177701031 King and other activists, notably Bayard Rustin, establish a group later known as the southern christian leadership conference (SCLC). It is formed to help local organizations carry out civil rights activities in the South.]]> 2022-05-10 14:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177701031 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177707027 King writes what comes to be known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Also King had participated in a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, to end segregation at lunch counters and in hiring practices. Police had turned dogs and fire hoses on the protesters, and King had been arrested along with a large number of his supporters. In the Birmingham jail, King writes an open letter to his fellow clergymen explaining his philosophy of nonviolence and why he would continue to protest.]]> 2022-05-10 14:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177707027 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177713607 March on Washington takes place. The march is organized by King and other civil rights leaders. More than 200,000 people participate in the demonstration. Near the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. ]]> 2022-05-10 14:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177713607 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177721416 King is announced as the winner of the Nobel prize for peace.]]> 2022-05-10 14:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177721416 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177732149 King leads a march for a event that is now called bloody Sunday when marchers were getting beat they had been violently turned back by local police officers. Two weeks after Bloody Sunday as many as 25,000 people participate in the roughly 50-mile march over five days. The Selma March and the events surrounding it become a symbol of the civil rights movement. The march leads directly to the passage of the voting rights act of 1965.]]> 2022-05-10 14:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177732149 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177734659 King King initiates a drive against racial discrimination in Chicago.]]> 2022-05-10 14:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177734659 12052051 https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177737718 King is shot and killed while in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by sanitation workers.]]> 2022-05-10 14:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/12052051/Bookmarks/wish/2177737718