U6 Timeline by Emma Zacheis https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3 en-us 2023-02-27 22:56:16 UTC 2023-02-27 23:46:25 UTC hello@padlet.com June 11, 1963 - Alabama governor George Wallace personally attempts to block African American students from registering at a the University emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497129893 This connects to our current study because this is another factor of just how important it was to get the civil rights act passed and how important it was that, this civil rights movement is. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497129893 Dec 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott - launched in, Alabama, after Rosa parks is arrested emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497130382 This connects to our current unit because this one part of the civil rights movement we learned about and one of the sparks that lit the flame for civil rights. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497130382 February 1960 Sit-in protest - movement begins at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads to the nation. emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497130737 This caused media attention which then caused more of an outrage among the civil rights activists and made it more of an issue and a fight for equal rights. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497130737 April 3 - May 10 1963 - Police arrest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham Alabama and then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497131121 This event causes a media explosion and it opens the eyes of so many people about how violent police were to African Americans and this caused more American's to fight for African American's independence. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497131121 August 28, 1963 - March on Washington. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497131319 This caused many Americans in the 60's to start to seek out equality for the African American's in America. This showed hope and that then was the time for Americans to make change. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497131319 July 2, 1964 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497132213 This connects to this unit because this is what the riots, marches, and sit ins were for. This was the significant change that they needed to get their equality that they fought so hard for. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497132213 February 21, 1965 - Civil Rights leader Malcolm X is murdered emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497132571 This connects to the unit because he was the top Militia leader of the 60's. He was a great leader and caused a lot of change in the world. When he was assassinated it was towards the end of the movement and he was trying more non-violent ways and this made many people upset and that is why they assassinated him. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497132571 August 6, 1965 - President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning prerequisites to voting such as fees and literacy tests emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497133628 This connects to the unit because this is another great act that was signed that the African Americans fought for so long for. This made it so that African Americans could vote without having to pay, or take literary tests. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497133628 April 4, 1968 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee emmaz7 https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497134095 This connects to the unit because when MLK was assassinated this caused mourning and sadness to the entire country. MLK was one of the main leaders of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's. ]]> 2023-02-27 23:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emmaz7/umhwemp2ff3ierq3/wish/2497134095