INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

CHILDREn's Institute of Black freedom

ESSAKKI SURYA PRAKASH SIVA SUBRAMANIAN, Felic gao

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott occured in Montgomery, Alabama from 1955 to 1956. The incident involving Rosa happened on December 1st 1955. It all started off when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested and then MLK told everyone to not ride the buses as a form of protest.. This is important because this was like the unofficial start of the Civil Rights Movement; it made people protest for desegregation in all sorts of public facilities.

All of this led up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott where African Americans decided to not use the buses for transportation.

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This is a photo of her in the bus leading up to the fateful incident.

This is Rosa Parks, a famous Civil Rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. She was secretary of her area's NAACP chapter.

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Birmingham Children's March

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This is a picture of MLK Jr. He was the one who coordinated this whole thing and had the idea to make children do a peaceful protest.

The Birmingham Children's March, I would say is one of the important events that happened during the civil rights movement. It occured in Birmingham, Alabama from May 2 to May 3 1962. The children who volunteered were made to march for a nonviolent protest but were beaten cruelly by the police even though they were just children. It lead to the desegregation of public schools throughout America. Without this, people can't study in one integrated school like our school.

This is a picture of teen getting arrested. This cruelty is what made the White civilians so angry against the officers of Birmingham.

This is a picture of the march showing how the children were led to walk on the streets as a form of protest.

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Little Rock 9

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This is a picture of the students marching through the white school while getting insults hurled at them.

The inspiration being the Little Rock 9 was actually to see if the results of Brown v. Board were actually enforced in the south.

The NAACP chose a group of nine smart African American students to try and integrate into the whites-only high school. This happened in Little Rock Arkansas on Sep 25, 1957. They were met with backlash and violence. This lead to the integration of black and white schools with the involvement of the President. Without this, we wouldn't have integrated schools now...

Some white parents didn't want their kids integrating with Black kids and it was the same on the other side of the spectrum. The parents who allowed it however were the parents of the little rock 9 pictured on the right.

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March on Washington and “I Have a Dream ”

MLK was one of the leaders in the non-violent desegregation movements. His idea was desegregation can be on through peaceful protests.

MLK gave his famous “I have a dream speech” which inspired many people to turn against segregation.

There was thousands of people who went to Washington DC to listen to MLK’s speech. Even whites went.

On August 28, 1963 in Washington, MLK gave his now-famous "I Have a Dream" Speech. MLK gave the speech with no prior preparation whatsoever which just makes it more impressive. Thousands of African American went to go see this speech. He gave this speech because of segregation. This speech is important because it sparked many more movements of equality, which in turn, led to the success of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Black Power Movement and Malcolm X

Malcolm X is the leader of his own desegregation group. He had different views on how desegregation should go. Some of them included violence.

Malcolm X had also made the idea of Black Power where black people embraced being black and stop trying to meet white expectations in society.

Black power changed many black people. Black people started to change their style like Malcolm X. The X in his name was from his ancestors. Now people started to grow afros and more.

Malcolm X was a contemporary of MLK Jr. He also advocate for Black Rights, but he didn't believe that Blacks could get this through non-violence. He joined the Nation of Islam, and was known to be violent in his ideas. The Black Power Movement was created by his ideas posthumously on June 16 1966. It went on after he died for decades till the 80s. This was important because without these rights, Black People wouldn't feel pride in their culture and wouldn't have that kind of perspective.

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Greensboro Sit-ins

5 guys named Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil went to a diner to sit and wait for service.

Many black people joined them at the diner and most waited for hours on end.

This spread across the entire south, as people took inspiration and went into diners to sit and wait.

From February 1 to July 25 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, four teens named Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil went to a diner in Greensboro and sat until closing time. They did this as a form of peaceful protest. They did this every day and while doing so, many people joined them. This got very popular and it spread through out the South. This is important because this was one of the movements that desegregated most public facilities. It was the embodiment of the Brown. V. Board decision.