Social Studies for kids

Social Sudies for Kids

Learn more about the past

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus

Rosa refused to get up for a white person on the bus and she got arrested on December 1st, 1955 in Downtown Montgomery. No one got on the buses until it was first come first serve on the buses. .

Rosa Parks sitting on the bus before getting arrested.

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They made 0 progress

Still 0 progress

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Rosa Parks getting arrested.

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Still walking to where they needed to go

Walking to work

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Not riding the bus

They took it into consideration

The buses emtpy because of the bus boycott

It took them over a year to be able to sit on a bus without getting arrested. Isn't that crazy! After that it was legal for white and black people to sit next to each other

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Greensboro Sit-in

they are sitting waiting to get served

People kept joining the blacks

4 college students, Ezell Blair, Jr. (later Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, sat at a restruant until it closed, Or until someone gave them food. They kept coming back everyday and people wee trying to fight them, and yet they stll did not move. Soon after this stores were desegregated. this happen on February 1, 1960 to July 25, 1960

The blacks are getting hated by the whites

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MLK and Malcolm X

MLK and Malcolm X fought for the same thing but had 2 different ways to get there. MLK wanted desegregation and the way to do it was throught peac.e. Malcolm X on the other hand wanted the same thing but he thought violence was the key. Their work lead to black and white equality. It is important because it ended inequality. It ended discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the United States

Malcolm X and MLK

MLK and a quote

Malcolm X