Civil Rights Movement by A L Y S S A https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS was this their salvation? en-us 2018-04-03 03:27:07 UTC 2018-04-03 04:22:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png THE FULL MOVEMENT lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247980952 2018-04-03 03:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247980952 WHAT IS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT? lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981229 The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination.]]> 2018-04-03 03:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981229 WHY DID THEY START THE MOVEMENT? lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981581 The goals of the movement were freedom from discrimination; equal opportunity in employment, education, and housing; the right to vote; and equal access to public facilities.]]> 2018-04-03 03:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981581 THE N DOUBLE A C P lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981685  By 1909, blacks and whites together had formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which became a leading organization in the cause of civil rights for African Americans. From its beginning, the NAACP and its attorneys challenged many discriminatory laws in court, but it was not until after world war ii that a widespread movement for civil rights gathered force.]]> 2018-04-03 03:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247981685 ROSA PARKS - A LEGEND. lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247982286 On December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old woman named Rosa Parks found a seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus after work. Segregation laws at the time stated blacks must sit in designated seats at the back of the bus, and Parks had complied.

When a white man got on the bus and couldn’t find a seat in the white section at the front of the bus, the bus driver instructed Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats. Parks refused and was arrested.

As word of her arrest ignited outrage and support, Parks unwittingly became the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.” Black community leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) led by Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr., a role which would place him front and center in the fight for civil rights.
]]> 2018-04-03 03:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247982286 THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR CHILDREN :)) lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247982748 2018-04-03 03:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247982748 A TRUE KING : MARTIN LUTHER KING lisaispandi https://padlet.com/lisaispandi/CIVILRIGHTS/wish/247983047 Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) was the young pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama who rose to prominence in the movement for civil rights. He remains to this day a symbol of the nonviolent struggle against segregation.

In 1965, King launched a voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, a city where only 355 of 15,000 Black residents had managed to register to vote. 

The following year, he moved his family north to Chicago to focus his energies on discrimination in housing and employment in northern cities. Still, by the mid-1960s, many younger Black activists, such as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael, found the nonviolent leader to be out of touch with the plight of Blacks living in the inner city.

King's murder in April of 1968 confirmed for activists both radical and moderate that nonviolence failed to change white society.

For more on Martin Luther King, Jr., head over to our Historical Texts learning guides for "I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop.
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