https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn Made with mirth en-us 2023-02-09 18:03:16 UTC 2025-11-13 05:46:40 UTC hello@padlet.com josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476610380 Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in the modern period when he entered Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In honor of his legendary career, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig retired his uniform number, 42, on April 15, 1997, in front of 50,000 people at Shea Stadium. Robinson's jersey number was first retired by all of the league's teams.
Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 for his contributions to the Dodgers winning six National League titles and one World Series.
  Robinson experienced racial discrimination during his career due to Jim Crow laws, which prevented him from visiting the same hotels and restaurants as his teammates.]]> 2023-02-10 15:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476610380 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476613057 Emmett Till, 14, was killed in 1955 in a racist act that sparked the civil rights movement. He was accused of harassing a white woman and was abducted by her relatives, who tortured him to death before disposing of his body in a river. His mother insisted on a public, open-casket burial to draw attention to the violence against Black people in the South. Even though his killers were acquitted, his death spurred civil rights activists all throughout the nation.]]> 2023-02-10 15:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476613057 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476616656 The Greensboro sit-in in 1960 marked the start of the civil rights movement, which spread to college towns in the South. Four black college students, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil, coordinated the sit-in, which had a lasting impact on Woolworths and other companies. They were imprisoned for trespassing, acting disruptively, or disturbing the peace. This event was inspired by the death of Emmett Till.]]> 2023-02-10 16:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476616656 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476622110 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and put an end to segregation in public places. It was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson and was followed by the Voting Rights Statute of 1965.]]> 2023-02-10 16:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2476622110 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478831045 The 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka found that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional, establishing the precedent that "separate but equal" education and other services were not equal. Oliver Brown, the plaintiff, filed a class-action lawsuit against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education in 1951 after his daughter, Linda Brown, was turned away from the city's all-white elementary schools.]]> 2023-02-13 12:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478831045 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478833221 African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama boycotted city buses to protest segregated seating, the nation's first large anti-segregation demonstration. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks was sentenced to prison and fined for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Ultimately, the Montgomery public transportation system had to be integrated by the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the boycott's leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., went on to play a crucial role in the American civil rights movement.]]> 2023-02-13 12:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478833221 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478836329 The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled in Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in September 1957, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. On the first day of classes, Governor Orval Faubus asked the Arkansas National Guard to stop Black students from attending the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered federal troops to defend the Nine, raising awareness of the civil rights struggle.]]> 2023-02-13 12:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478836329 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478839011 Feburary 21, 1965, An African American nationalist and religious figure named Malcolm X is shot and killed in Washington Heights' Audubon Ballroom as he speaks to his Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Malcolm X was a prominent civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s who supported Black empowerment, self-defense, and separatism, which was in opposition to other leaders' peaceful stances like Martin Luther King Jr. He opposed the status quo and campaigned for a more radical strategy to combat racial injustice, which had a huge effect on the civil rights movement. His writings and lectures served as an example for a new generation of activists and paved the way for the late 1960s Black Power movement. Despite his contentious figure, Malcolm X is still a formidable advocate for Black independence and self-determination.

]]> 2023-02-13 12:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478839011 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478841000 On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, causing shockwaves to reverberate throughout the whole world.
Martin Luther King Jr. played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. He planned demonstrations, marches, and boycotts to abolish the injustice and segregation of Black Americans, and gave his famous "I Have a Dream" address on the 1963 March on Washington, which was seen as a turning point in the movement. His leadership was encouraged and inspired by King's leadership to take up the battle for racial justice and equality, and he was murdered in 1968. Despite his involvement, his influence as a strong proponent of equality, justice, and peace lives on is still felt today.]]> 2023-02-13 12:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478841000 josephnelson2025 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478845078  On March 7, 1965, a 600-person civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, became violent as white state troopers and sheriff's deputies assaulted and beat protesters, leading to the creation of the term "Bloody Sunday".
 The protesters were commemorating the recent shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old church deacon, by state trooper James Bonard Fowler, under the leadership of civil rights activists Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. They planned to march 54 miles to Montgomery, the state capital, from Selma but were instructed to disperse. Police used billy clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas to assault them, resulting in 17 marchers being hospitalized and Lewis receiving medical care.
 Protests broke out in 80 locations around the nation on March 9, with Martin Luther King Jr. leading a march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. President Lyndon B. Johnson stated that there is no conflict between state rights and national rights. King and 25,000 demonstrators completed their march to Montgomery on March 25 while being guarded by the FBI and US troops. After more than a century of waiting, the time for waiting is now done.]]> 2023-02-13 12:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/wkqiz357eop0qfzn/wish/2478845078