Social Studies project

After the Little Rock Nine incident, they made a monument of the 8 people who lasted during the year. One black girl got expelled for punching a white girl.

Here is a video link to the story of the Little Rock Nine.

This picture shows the Little Rock Nine children in a photo. These 9 black kids attended a white school for the first time.

9 really smart students who are at the top of their class were asked to attend a white school to see if blacks and whites would get along. One black student got harrased by a white girl, and punched her. She later got expelled.

The Little ROck NIne

-1960´s MUseum-

This video explains the story of Rosa Parks and how she changed the world.

This image shows another way blacks got around without using the bus.

Blacks were forced to sit at the back of the bus. So they all boycotted, and decided not to ride the bus. The bus company started losing money, so they stopped segregating buses.

In 1957, Rosa Parks sat at the front of the bus where only whites were allowed to sit. She refused to move when asked, and was arrested.

This picture shows Rosa Parks sitting in a white spot instead of in the back.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

-1960´s MUseum-

Martin Luther king was shot dead At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968 while standing on his balcony On the second floor, the crime was committed by James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term.

Assassination of Mlk 1968

This is James Earl Ray he shot MLK "apparent hatred for the civil rights movement; his possible yearning for recognition, and a desire for a potential quick profit." MLK last words were “Be sure to sing Blessed Lord tonight — and sing it well,”

This is where mLk gave his speak at the lincoln Memorial at Washington D.C. called ¨I have a dream speech¨

-1960´s MUseum-

This is what the diners looked like in the Greensboro Sit-ins.

GReensboro Sit-ins

This is the bus the Freedom Riders were in after it sadly got bombed.

Freedom Riders

MLK I have a Dream speech

This is the speech that MLK wrote for the i have a dream speech and it was a very strong speech.

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This is when the Greensboro Sit-ins happened and after that most stores did not desegregate right away but did later.

This is when the Freedom Riders Event happened and after Segregation in interstate travel was banned.

This is when MLK gave the I have a dream speech and it made a big difference.

GReensboro Sit-ins

Freedom Riders

MLK I have a Dream speech

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This is during the Greensboro Sit-ins and people were getting mad and pouring things on others.

This is the kind of buses the Freedom Riders rode

This is a picture in washington during the MLK i have a dream speech and as you can see there were a lot of people there.

GReensboro Sit-ins

Freedom Riders

MLK I have a Dream speech

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Brown vs. Board of Education was when the Supreme Court decided that separating kids based on their race was unconstitutional.

It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.

horrible things and men had to walk her in because it wasn’t safe for her.

This is a classroom full of only Blacks, Because even though Blacks finally got to go to school and get an education, Blacks were still treated un-fairly and white and Blacks had to go to two separate schools. This is a black-kids only school.

This black little girl finally got the chance to go to school but white were mad about that they were yelling and didn’t want that. Black parents were worried about sending their kids. All Black kids were allowed but Rudy Bridges was the only one brave enough. There was only one teacher that actually wanted to teach her. Whites were yelling

Brown vs. board of education

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