INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

The painful civil rights act

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By: Caroline Brown and Ava Groberski

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Rosa Parks got arrested on December 1, 1955 because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white person. In Montgomery, Alabama

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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This is Rosa Parks

After Rosa got arrested getting her fingerprint

Because of this all the black people in the community stopped riding the buses till the would get equal rights for black people. This did lead to them getting desegregatated buy more than a year later.

This was her prisoner number

The Greensboro sit ins were when 4 college students got deined serive at a diner so they did a non-violent protest by sitting at the lunch counter. It happened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960.

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The Greensboro Sit-ins

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These are the 4 college students that started the sit-in

This is when more people started to do the sit-in with them

They were important because it led to a wider sit-in movement by students fighting for equality. After a while more southern states around stated to desegregate because of the Greensboro sit-in.

This was the diner that it happened at

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Assassination of MLK, 1968

On April 4, 1968 In Memphis, Tennessee James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther Kind Jr on the balcony of his motel room.

This is the balcony he was on

Martin Luther King's funeral

Him getting shot lead to a lot of violence in the city. This part of civil rights was important because his death energized the Black Power Movement and black became more distrustful to whites.

His motel room

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Freedom Riders

This is what the bus looked like after the angry mob of members from the Ku Klux Klan bombed it.

These are the mugshots of the freedom riders.

This is a mural of the Freedom Bus in memorial of the tragic event that happened with the bus.

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Birmingham Children's March

Groups of kids in downtown Birmingham protesting with signs for there rights.

Police spraying fire hoses at the protesters making them fall to the ground and get intense wounds.

These are police dogs biting children like they are doing something illegal or against the law.

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These are a group of lawyers in the process of banning segregation in public schools.

This is a bunch of white protesters trying to not have segregation in public schools from being banned.

This is young Ruby Bridges walking into a whites-only school. And being guarded byt a couple of men.