INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

By Sarah Lammersfeld and Julianna Mils

Civil Rights

Sit Ins

Rosa Parks

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Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Legislation included three acts. The 24th Amendment, Civil Rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of 1965. The 24th Amendment forbidded the poll act. The Civil Rights Act said you cannot discrimminate people based on color, race, sex, religion, or national orgin. The voting Rights act of 1965 outlawed any acts that denied people the right to vote.

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Civil Rights

Sit in's

A group of highschoolers ran the sit in's. They wanted restaurants to be equal so they sat in a all white section and didn't order any food. They had keptup and mustard dumped on thier head. This went on for many days. They just wanted things to be fair but the waiters wouldn't serve them.

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Greensboro sit ins

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks is mostly known for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus but you'd be surprised about what else she did. Rosa Parks worked in an organication called the NAACP for 12 years. What she did on the bus led to a Montgomery bus boycott which changed Civil Rights.

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Greensboro sit-ins changed Greensboro in a very good way, here's how. Greensboro restaurant owners had to make a choice between losing their business or making peace and serving African-Americans after no one being able to sit because of African Americans sitting in seats and not ordering like in this photo. Greensboro sit-ins also inspired other people to start their own protests or join someone elses.

Greensboro sit-in and how they changed Greensboro

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This artifact is very important because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that segeration is illegal. This act also outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. In this photo this women can't get a job and no one would hire her. This does not follow the Civil Rights Act therefore showing that people did not follow the law.

Woman begging for a job to provide for her family

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The Greensboro Sit ins were also bad for buisness owners. No body wanted to come visit Greensboro because of all the action and arrestments. So the buisness in the city were not getting the attetion they needed to be able to make money and provide for their family. Even they city governements perfered and wanted peace to attract people and for them to come to thier city.

How the sit ins effected buisness owners

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This is a photo of colored people sitting at an all white only section in a restaurant.

This picture is included in my museum because it shows how people were treated. They were doing a protest on where they were allowed to sit in a restaurant. The servers refused to serve them and they even got treated badly. They got keptup and mustard dumped on thier head. Because of these protest in Greensboro it inspired others to protest around the US. Birmingham was one of those cities that was inspired to do protests too.

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On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks got on a bus and decided to sit in the all white section. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man the bus driver yelled and called the police. She was then arrested and taken to jail. This started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was tired of the segeration and people telling her what to do and how to do it. That why she refused to give her seat, she wanted things to be equal.

What happened that day?

The Montgomery bus boycott is very famous and I'm gonna teach you why. It started with Rosa Parks and refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white man after she was arrested, everyone took a stand to stay of buses, the next Monday over 17,000 black busriders found another way to get to where they were going, they even organised carpool systems to help people get around. This boycott lasted exactly 382 days until the bus companies lost so much money they decided to give in and change the rules to a "First come, first serve".

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks is important in history and in the advancing in the Civil Rights Movemnet because not only did she stand up for herself and other black bus riders, she encourged others around the United States to start or join boycotts and protest. She got arrested for her actions but she changed the minds of people and they started standing up for themselves and other ccolored people.

Why Rosa Parks is important in history

The 24th Amendment states that no one can charge a poll tax to vote. In this photo the people are protesting for no poll tax. The poll tax was made to keep colored people from voting. So when th 24th Amendment came in place it was a big step to desegeration. It also helped people who wanted to vote but couldn't afford it at the time.

In this photo people are protesting the poll taxes.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

This is a photo of a newspaper from 1965 when the act was first signed. The voting right act banned literacy tests and ensured African-Americans the right to vote. Literacy tests were made to keep African-Americans from voting because most of them at the time could not read or write very well.

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