INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

Civil rights museum project

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March on Washington and "I have a dream" speech.

Greensboro sit ins

MLK assasination

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The March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech is an iconic moment in the civil rights movement. On August 28, 1963 over 250,000 people gathered in Washington DC to march from the Washington monument to the Lincoln Memorial. after the march, eveyone gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial steps and listened to King give his speech. His speech was so inspiring, that even more people were empowered to fight for civil rights, eventually overwhelming congress and the president. forcing him to pass a strong civil rights bill, the civil rights act of 1968.

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On February 1, 1960, 4 college students walked into the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. They wanted to use civil disobedience to prove a point, that lunch counters, diners, and restaurants should be desegregated. They decided that they were going to "sit in" at a restaurant. They sat down at the all-white lunch counter, and vowed to not move until they were served. They sat here all day, through torture that others put them in, but they didn't budge. This got under the mayor of greensboro's skin, and he desegregated lunch counters and diners. but the damage was done,and the Sit in movement spread all over the south, working as an effective movement of civil disobediance toward desegregation.

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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by a man named James Earl Ray Outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.