https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2021-02-08 18:46:07 UTC 2024-07-15 17:58:05 UTC hello@padlet.com braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178722284 Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the March on Washington in 19]]> 2021-02-08 18:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178722284 braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178739929 Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens]]> 2021-02-08 18:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178739929 braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178758625 Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. ... His work served as an inspiration to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond]]> 2021-02-08 18:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178758625 braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178780752 After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, he increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War.]]> 2021-02-08 18:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178780752 braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178793906 Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman.]]> 2021-02-08 18:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1178793906 braidenward https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1183848661 Oprah Winfrey, born January 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S., American television personality, actress, and entrepreneur whose syndicated daily talk show was among the most popular of the genre. She became one of the richest and most influential women in the United States.]]> 2021-02-09 18:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/braidenward/ynmxj33wvf90qmb4/wish/1183848661