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Rosa parks

Civil rights

Assasination of MLK

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By Peter Archos and Sebastian Mitura

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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery.

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Rosa Parks and the montgomery bus boycott

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At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities.

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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.

Protesting the tax poll

The 24th amendment states that no one can charge a poll tax to viote. The tax poll was made to keep colored people to not vote. the 24th amendment was ratified on January 23rd 1964.

Martin Luther King Room

Martin Luther King stayed in room 306 at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee and was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05pm. Room 306 was never rented out again and the Hotel is now a part of history and is apart of the National Civil Rights Museum

Room 306 of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee

Martin Luther King Jr stadning on balcony

This was the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr was shot and assassined by someone who fired a single shot that caused severe wounds to the lower right side of his face. SCLC aides rushed to him, to the hospital as Ralph Abernathy cradled King's head. Others on the balcony pointed across the street toward the rear of a boarding house on South Main Street where the shot seemed to have originated.

Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m.

why Rosa Parks is a part of history

Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks changed a lot of peoples minds on segrigation.Rosa influenced blacks to stand up for themselbes she also influenced whits pople to stop segrigation.

What happend that day?

On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks got on a bus and decided to sit in the all white section.Then a white man told her to go to the back of the bus but Rosa refused. So the cops were called and she got arrested. Cause of this incident the Montgomery Bud Boycot started.A lot of people were tired of the segreagtion and people telling blacks what to do and ot do.

How did MLK's death affect the world

King's death energized the Black Power Movement. Black Americans felt even more distrustful of white institutions and America's political system. Membership in the Black Panther Party and other Black Power groups surged. Local organizations grew into national networks.

Picture of the newspaper right after Martin Luther King Jr's death and the balcony he was on

Civil rights newspaper

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.

Woman asking for jobs to provide for their familes

tThis artifact is very important in the US hisrory, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 says that segrigtion is illigal. This act also un allows discrimination and baced of off race or skin color. No one would hire a black woman, people did not follow the Civil Rights act of 1964.

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Rosa Parks bus

This is the bus that Rosa Parks was arrested on. This bus is so iconic and it is crazy that this was the actual bus that she got arrested on. They kept this bus intact for a long time by keeping it preserved in a room temperature place

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Rosa parks bus she was arrested on.