https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a en-us 2022-01-12 13:56:20 UTC 2022-01-13 16:02:25 UTC hello@padlet.com michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988267347 2022-01-12 14:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988267347 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988270577  Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers go free, and the case brings international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine shows a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral.]]> 2022-01-12 14:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988270577 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988281793 As part of a plan to fight segregation, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Parks was not the first Black activist to do this. Claudette Colvin and JoAnn Robinson did so before her. Black activists in Montgomery Boycott the buses for over a year, leading to desegregated buses in the city. ]]> 2022-01-12 14:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1988281793 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990511802 Church leaders and activists elect Martin Luther King Jr. as the head of the SCLC. Its goal is to end segregation and gain voting rights for Black people. ]]> 2022-01-13 14:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990511802 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990563373 Lunch-Counter sit-ins occurred in cities such as Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. Young Black activists sat at white-only lunch counters and refused to leave. They faced beatings and abuse.]]> 2022-01-13 15:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990563373 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990595960 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created by college student activists, including Ella Baker, Diane Nash, and John Lewis. SNCC helped organize the lunch counter sit-ins and other nonviolent actions against segregation.]]> 2022-01-13 15:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990595960 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990600062 Black and white activists ride segregated interstate buses to take a stand against segregation. They face violence and bombings.]]> 2022-01-13 15:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990600062 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990607008 Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”]]> 2022-01-13 15:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990607008 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990614720 White supremacist terrorists bomb a Black church in Birmingham Alabama, killing four Black children. The bombing makes national news and causes angry protests.]]> 2022-01-13 15:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990614720 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990622224 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law. The law is supposed to prevent employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. ]]> 2022-01-13 15:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990622224 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990628552 Around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to protest for voting rights. Local police block and brutally attack them. The violence of the police makes national news. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. ]]> 2022-01-13 15:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990628552 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990639764 Under pressure, President Johnson signs a law meant to guarantee voting rights for all U.S. citizens. This law, along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is considered the main victory of the Civil Rights Movement. This law is under attack today.]]> 2022-01-13 15:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990639764 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990652837 Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, a white man is convicted of the murder in 1969. Uprisings take place in cities across the United States.]]> 2022-01-13 15:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990652837 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990664422 Uprisings take place across the United States in response to the King assassination and racist conditions in cities. Protestors burn buildings and seize property.]]> 2022-01-13 15:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990664422 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990666736 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.]]> 2022-01-13 15:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990666736 michaelrussoniello https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990684334 In 1892, a Black man named Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Black-only train car. His case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that separate places for Black and white people were ok, as long as they were "equal".]]> 2022-01-13 16:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelrussoniello/zvth0v9csb6h2q5a/wish/1990684334