Civil rights project Lena Geissenberger

a interactive civil Rights museum for kids

montgomery Bus boycott

made by Lena Geissenberger

Greenboro sit-ins

MLK "I have a dream speeech

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montgomery bus boycott

the montgomery bus boycott was started when rosa parks an african american woman got arrested for not giving up her seat when she was siting in a ¨whites only¨ section on the bus. Her and a group of other called african americans started a council called the NAACP to boycott the bus system. By not using the buses. The Bus company lost a lot of money because no African Americans were riding on the buses. The bus company decided to make all buses equal. meaning their stopped being a "whites only section".

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MLK "I have a dream speech"

the "I have a dream speech" is a speech martin Luther King made. he delivered the speech on the steps of the lincoln memoral. 250,000 people attented to listen to the speech. the speech opened the eyes to how unfair african americans were being treated, and how unfair the system was.

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Greensboro sit-ins

The Greensboro sit-ins happened because African Americans weren't getting served at white restaurants. a group of them decided to sit in restaurants until they got served. Lots of restaurants had to paint over their "white only" signs because of the number of African Americans that participated in the peaceful protest. they took up a lot of space at the restaurants. space that their other customers (their white customers) couldn't sit at.

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Martin luther king delivered his I have a dream speech on the steps of the lincoln memoral. his speech helped african americans gain support to get more civil right laws.

After martin luther kings speech. Segregation was considered illegal and any "discrimination race or color"

this photo represents all the civil rights laws that got passed

his speech talks about how one day he wishes that people people wouldn't be jugded by the color of their skin or by their race.

this is a photo of the lincoln memoral

This is a photo of MLK's I have dream speech

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The picture shown is of a bus in montgomery, Alabama. The bus was one of the buses the African Americans stoped going on. If you look through the window to the bus you can see there's nobody in the bus. That's because most of the buses Riders were African American.

this was one of the buses in mongomery

the picture shown is of the local newspaper. The headline of the newspaper "More Determined Than Ever¨ which is talking about the bus boycott. The article talks about how african americans were determined to get their rights back.

this was a carpool

the photo shows a car with a "free ride" sign on the back of it. african americans carpooled with other people instead of taking the buses. They had system where you could call someone if you needed a ride to go somewhere.

this was the local newspaper

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as you can see in this photo the african americans took up most of the seats in the restaurant. you can see in the workers in the photo looked really mad.

This was one of the white only sighs

this is a photo of a "whites- only" lunch counter

african Americans didn't like the fact that they couldn't sit in restaurants with "white only" sighs. Thats why they dicided to protest by siting in restraurants untill they got severed. They couldn't get in trouble for just sitting in a "white only" restraurant

as you can see in the photo people were protesting outside one the restraurants telling people to not go in the restraurants. if you look closely you can see that there is a lot of people protesting.

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This was a protests outiside of one of the restaurants.