museum project

Museum of civil rights movements

Montgomery bus boycott

I Have a Dream Speach

Greensboro sit-ins

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks and many people living in Montgomery were involved in this boycott. People stopped using the busses after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move seats for a white person. It started in December 1955 and ended in December 1956. It took place in Montgomery, Alabama. It led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. This is important because it ended segregation on public buses.

These busses are the things that people were boycotting because of the unfair segregation.

This is were rosa parks had to stayed after being arrested for not moving her seat for a white man.

This is the number that rosa parks had to use when she was in jail.

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"I have a dream" speach

This is the number MLK jr had the use when he was in jail.

MLK jr and the hundreds of thousands of people attended the speech. MLK jr gave a speech about the future of racism. Over 200,000 people attended. It was held on August 28, 1963. It took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. It led to people wanting more equality. It was one of the most important parts of civil rights history and a speech that people will remember forever.

MLK talked into these microphones during his “I have a dream" speach

This is the podium MLK stood at while saying his “I have a dream" speech

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The Greensboro sit-ins

Many college students who chose to protest for equal rights were involved in this event. It was an act of non-violent protest, by refusing to leave until they got served. It was in February 1960. It took place in Greensboro, North Carolina in a store. It led to many more non-violent protests throughout the South, and it made many more stores equal and showed people about racial segregation.

This is where the greensboro sit-ins took place.

These are the people and signs used to protest outside the store with the greensboro sit-ins.

Newspapers like this is what spread the news about the greensboro sit-ins.