Naoki Jacobson Civil RIghts Project

The Civil Rights Hall Exhibiton

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The Freedom Riders

Background -> It shows had bad the fire on the bus was

The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and white civil rights activists. They wanted to test whether or not they could sit wherever they wanted, eat in integregated dining rooms, and use facilites such as bathrooms. They also wanted to see the differences in travel from North to South. They started in Washington D.C. and intended on ending in New Orleans, Louisiana. On there way, in Birmingham, Alabama, they got attacked by a white mob and got hit with baseball bats, iron pipes, and bicycle chains. They were able to continue their journey. They were attacked twice by the KKK, and their bus ended up getting lit on fire, and it ended the Freedom Riders. After this, a law was passed on September 23, 1961 and it ended discrimination on interstate buses.

This picture shows another perspective of the bus and how bad it was.

This picture shows how the people may be feeling after the bus got lit on fire.

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March on Washington and “I Have a Dream”

The “I Have a Dream” speech and the March on Washinton happened on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King Jr. was the one who gave and created the "I Have a Dream" speech and Martin's most impactful and important parts of the speech (in my opinion) were, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” and “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed — we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." These quotes talk about how Marin would like to see his children not judged by their skin color but by how they act/ who they are as a person, and that he'd ike to see America as a place that people know everyone is created equal. This was important because it led to desegregation of America. It also helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lastly, it paved the way for other civil rights act and activists.

This is a picture of Martin during his speech.

This is a picture showing how many people there were.

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

It all started with Rosa Parks, and she is one of many people that got arrested for not giving her seat up to a white person, but she stook out because she started the Montgomery Bus Boycott on December 1, 1955 - December 2o, 1956. During this boycott, African American civilians in Montgomery stopped taking the bus, and use all other types of transportation (other than buses), and since about half of Montgomery's population was African American, that ment buses lost half of their passangers, almost making buses out of buisness in a way. This boycott lasted more than a year, and it led to desegregation of buses. This is important because it desegregated local buses, greater efforts to desegregate schools, promoted peaceful protests, and showed that civil disobedience can lead to legal change.

This is a picture of the boycott participants and how they're walking instead of using buses.

This picture is a picture of Rosa Parks the day she got arrested.

The background picture is a picture showing how the people that participated in the bus boycott, and how they rode their bikes instead of using the buses.