INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

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Birminham, 1963

The Selma Marches

The montgomery buss boycott

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The Civil Rights movement, Ben anD razi

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Freedom Riders

Greensboro Sit ins

I Have a Dream Speech

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This is one of the cars that was used as a taxi for boycotters

on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was forced to move because a white man wanted her seat. The bus had plenty of free seats, but the man wanted her's. when she refused she was forced to get off the bus. she was then arrested by the police Rosa parks knew many people, her arrest sparked what would become a boycott that lasted over a year. Black people would walk to work every day. It became so large that people would use their own cars as taxis. eventually the bus company was forced to desegregate.

This is Rosa Parks prison number from after she was arrested

This is the bus that Rosa Parls was asked to move on.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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This is some of the tear gas that was used to discourage the protesters

this is a banner from a protest that wanted to help those marching in selma

This is one of the soldiers from the marches

The Selma marches started as a protest for voting rights. In Selma it was almost impossible for black people to vote. During the peaceful protest, the police shot a college student. When the protesters came back the police stopped them. Now they planned to march carrying the student's coffin all the way to Montgomery. The president sent soldiers to watch over the protesters on their march. After the marches a law was passed that ended all discriminatory voting walls, including the poll tax and grandfather rule.

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The Selma Marches

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These are some of the posters the children used

Martin Luther King JR. came to birminham because he thought it was one of the most segregated cities, and he wanted to show the country how brutal the police would be. when he arrived he was arrested for "parading without a permit" and spent eight days in jail. It was decided that children would march, to show that the chief of police would not hesitate to be violent towards them. during the protest over a thousand kids were arrested and the police put high-preassure fire hoses on them. The president at the time, JFK, sent 300 troops to restore peace in the city. After the protests Birminham got a very bad reputation and desegregated.

This is one of the dogs the police used

This is one of the hoses that were used against the protesters

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Birminham, 1963

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The Freedom Riders (1961)

The Freedom Riders were people who wanted to test if the new law saying that interstate busses cannot be segregated would be enforced by seeing if they could use integrated facilities on the bus and sit anywhere. They left from virginia and their final destination was supposed to be New Orleans,Louisiana however they never made it due to their stop in Anniston,Alabama where the KKK firebombed the bus along with beating some Freedom Riders with baseball bats ending the freedom rides. This was however was not a failure it created a new law saying all interstate busses must have a certificate saying segregation was illegal.

This was one of the freedom riders Mugshot from when they were arrested in mississippi.

These were the signs freedom riders held up when protesting.

This was one of the busses the freedom riders rode it was firebombed by the KKK.

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I Have a Dream speech (1963)

These were the same mics MLK jr. spoke into when giving his I Have a Dream speech.

The Lincoln Memorial is where hundreds of thousands of people gathered to hear MLK jr.'s I Have a Dream speech.

This is the podium MLK jr. stood at while giving the Ï Have a Dream speech.

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the biggest faces of the fight for equality, and his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963 was a big part of it because it helped gain support from even more people, both white and black, uniting many in the fight for desegregation.

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This is a Newspaper from when the Sit-Ins were happenneing.

This was the same store that the Sit-Ins happend at.

These were the same chairs that blacks protesting for equal rights sat in for hours.

Greensboro Sit-ins (1960)

The Greensboro Sit-Ins started when a few college students went into F.W Woolworth who allowed blacks to enter and shop, but their Lunch counter was reserved for whites however the college students just peacefully sat at the counter but were denied service until more and more blacks came and sat in protest. It was a huge part of desegregation because they desegregated lunch counters along with inspiring other people to protest for desegregation at supermarkets,stores,librarys, and bus stations all over the country!

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