BLM Movement by Ava Sainterme https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd Ava Sainterme and Emma Tucker Hours 3 and 4 en-us 2021-04-09 14:41:39 UTC 2026-02-26 21:19:09 UTC hello@padlet.com #BlackLivesMatter and its beginnings sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422758838 This TedTalk provides a great explanation of the origins of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. This video is very impactful as it is coming from the POV of a young, black woman. ]]> 2021-04-15 19:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422758838 Cross-Country Support sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422791807 “The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States”]]> 2021-04-15 19:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422791807 Support in Numbers sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422813524 This clip shows the immense support the BLM Movement had after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. ]]> 2021-04-15 19:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422813524 The Story Behind the Movement tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422846680 The Black Lives Matter movement originally began in 2013.  It started when Trayvon Martin, a black, unarmed 17-year-old, was returning home from the store.  George Zimmerman, a wannabe cop, claimed that he looked suspicious and ultimately shot and killed Trayvon Martin.  When Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder, people were outraged and began speaking up.  A Facebook post with the caption “Black Lives Matter” caught people’s attention and fostered change.]]> 2021-04-15 19:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422846680 Timeline sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422887794 Check out this incredible, interactive timeline for a better understanding of the Civil Rights Movement! ]]> 2021-04-15 19:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422887794 sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422898598 Check out this link if you’d like to learn more about the history of the NAACP in their own words!
#NAACP #CivilRights #History]]> 2021-04-15 19:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422898598 Victims tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422909769 Here are some of the victims of police brutality during 2020, who we continue to fight for justice for:
George Floyd (5/25/20)
Breonna Taylor (3/13/20)
Ahmaud Arbery (2/23/20)
#BlackLivesMatter

]]> 2021-04-15 19:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422909769 Colorism tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422951549 “Our white is so white you can paint a chunka coal and you’d have to crack it open with a sledge hammer to prove it wasn’t white clear through” (Ellison 217).

The narrator works at a Liberty Paints plant which symbolizes the racial dynamics in society.  Liberty Paints emphasizes on the fact that their paint is white enough to make charcoal white.  This represents society’s ability to subvert black identites and encourage black people to mask their true thoughts and feelings in order to be accepted by white culture.

]]> 2021-04-15 20:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1422951549 Identity sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1423670581 “But here in the North I would slough off my southern ways of speech. Indeed, I would have one way of speaking in the North and another in the South. Give them what they wanted down South, that was the way. If Dr. Bledsoe could do it, so could I” (Ellison 164). 

The narrator admits that he would change his identity just to secure a job.  This forces him to analyze different black stereotypes in Harlem in order to fit in.
This has been a common occurrence for black people throughout history, to act how white people expect them to act, in order to be accepted by society.]]> 2021-04-16 01:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1423670581 A Quote from one of the founders, Alicia Garza sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1435140935 “We really felt like there needed to be a space that people could relate to that didn’t blame black people for conditions we didn’t create" 
https://www.nfg.org/news/meet-woman-behind-blacklivesmatter-hashtag-became-civil-rights-movement]]> 2021-04-19 20:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1435140935 History of the Movement in “2 minutes or so” sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438179424 This short video provides an excellent overview of the movement and its leaders! #IHaveADream ]]> 2021-04-20 14:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438179424 Brown v Board of Education sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438206676 This monumental court case ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education established the precedent that previous “separate-but-equal” doctrine was, in fact, not equal at all.]]> 2021-04-20 14:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438206676 Civil Rights Act of 1964 sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438208064 “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin” #1964 #LyndonBJohnson 
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act]]> 2021-04-20 14:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438208064 What is the NAACP? tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438316908 The NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancemt of Colored People.  The main goal of the organization is to provide political, social, educational and economic equality for minority groups in the United States.]]> 2021-04-20 15:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438316908 Petitions tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438355167 Petitions are a great starting point too! They have been an incredibly influentual part of the movement in 2020. #signsomepetitions #makechange]]> 2021-04-20 15:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1438355167 Invisibility tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1443060172 “And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.  I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself.  So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled.  I am an invisible man” (Ellison 573).

This quote shows how the narrator finally understands that he hasn’t been himself.  Instead, he has built his identity around society’s social expectations. 
In the beginning of the novel, the narrator calls himself “Invisible Man” to draw attention to the fact that others can’t see him.  In the end of the novel, he calls himself “invisible man” to draw attention to the fact that his identity is real even if others can’t see it.]]> 2021-04-21 15:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1443060172 Justice for George Floyd tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1444932845 On April 21, 2021, Derek Chauvin was found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, for the death of George Floyd.]]> 2021-04-21 23:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1444932845 Stamped tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445096936 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You is a book about racism in the U.S. throughout history.  One of the authors, Jason Reynolds, states,“Scrolling will never be enough.  Reposting will never be enough.  Hashtagging will never be enough.  Because hatred has a way of convincing us that half love is whole.  What I mean by that is we, all of us, have to fight against performance and lean into participation.  We have to be participants.  Active.  We have to be more than audience members sitting comfortably in the stands of morality, shouting, ‘wrong!’  That’s too easy.  Instead, we must be players on the field, on the court, in our classrooms and communities, trying to do right.  Because it takes a whole hand, both hands, to grab hold of hatred not just a texting thumb and a scrolling index finger” (Reynolds 253).  
This quote shows how change won’t be made unless we start taking more action, outside of talking about it on social media.  Just posting hashtags for the Black Lives Matter movement on social media simply isn’t enough to end racism.]]> 2021-04-22 01:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445096936 Fear + Hatred tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445321924 “I didn't understand in those pre-invisible days that their hate, and mine too, was charged with fear. How all of us at the college hated the black-belt people, the ‘peasants,’ during those days! We were trying to lift them up and they, like Trueblood, did everything it seemed to pull us down” (Ellison 47)

In this quote, the narrator realizes that racism is rooted in fear. 
The narrator states how the school's black population resents people like Trueblood because their lifestyle supports the black stereotypes the students were trying to abolish.]]> 2021-04-22 02:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445321924 NAACP Call to Action sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445401237 Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement recounts the history of the NAACP and Civil Rights Movements in great depth.
"By the time the NAACP was founded, white supremacy had triumphed in the South, home to nearly 90 percent of black Americans. Over the previous twenty years southern states enacted a series of laws that effectively stripped blacks of citizenship rights and segregated all phases of public life"(Sullivan 1).

This quote perfectly encompasses the catalysts of the formation of the NAACP. It is clear that legal segregation could no longer continue in the United States, and figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Archibald Grimke and Mary Church Terrell would need to take on the challenge of change in the legal system.
 
]]> 2021-04-22 02:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445401237 Stereotypes sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445475458 As the narrator acts as a driver for a trustee of hid college, he implicitly describes black stereotypes. “It was the cabin of Jim Trueblood, a sharecropper who had brought disgrace upon the black community”(Ellison 46). 

The narrator instantly begins with saying Trueblood was a disgrace to the black community. However, he follows by saying how Trueblood used to be the ‘perfect black man.’ He was a hardworking farmer that cared for his family and told great stories. He perfectly fit the stereotype that many black men fell under. This stereotype has been dangerous for black Americans for hundreds of years. Especially during the 20th century, the rise of legal segregation was accompanied by even stronger stereotypes.]]> 2021-04-22 03:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445475458 #NAACP sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445496372 2021-04-22 03:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445496372 tuckee0388 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445497132 #BlackLivesMatter]]> 2021-04-22 03:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445497132 #Protest sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445530938 2021-04-22 03:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445530938 sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445560720 2021-04-22 04:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445560720 sainta0053 https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445560918 2021-04-22 04:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sainta0053/xp88yhapoofdpwjd/wish/1445560918