Finley S interactive museum

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Museum of desegregation

This is the college the people who started and joined the sit ins came from.

This is an image taken from the first sit in in the Woolworth store

The Woolwoth store the sitins occured in

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Greensboro Sit-ins

Ezell Blair, Jr. (later Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, all sat at a segregated diner counter. They were all refused service but, still sat there. They sat from morning to night peacefuly even though people were throwing things at them, and shouting at them. The sit ins got so big that all african american students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro joined. This lead to desegregation in Greensboro and led to sit ins in other places. It was important because it gave blacks pride and started even more protests against segregation.

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This was the type of bus Rosa Parks got arrested on in Montgomery.

This is Rosa Parks fingerprint from when she first got put in prison.

This letter is Rosa Parks wrote talking about the bus boycott in the beginning from jail.

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Montgomery Bus boycott & Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and got arrested, so her friends decided to start a bus boycott and it became huge eventually all blacks in Montgomery boycotted the busses and started carpools. Iasted from December 5th 1955 to December 20th 1956. It led to the desegregation of the Montgomery busses, and was important beacuse It was a community effort and it desegregated the Montgomery busses, it also lasted over a year and took a lot of hope from the African Americans.

Diploma for Carlotta Walls one of the little rock nine kids who graduated from Central HS

These are the 9 kids from the little rock nine, a picture taken at the school

This is the highschool the little rock nine attended an attempted to desegregate

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Little Rock Nine

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in 1957 Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls attempted to integrate Central HS in Little Rock Arkansas. After the kids attended for a year the governor shut down all little rock schools to stop desegregation. This was important because they helped turn over the decision in brown vs board of education, and helped strengthen the civil rights movement.