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During your time at the museum, you will see three things. First, you will learn about the struggles of the Freedom Riders. Next, you will ge to look at the Greensboro Sit Ins. Lastly you will see the Selma Marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Freedom Riders

Greensboro Sit Ins

Selma Marches

Gio's CIvil RIght's Movement Museum

We have a map like this because this is about how much the Freedom Riders had to travel

Artifact Three: Road map from Washington D.C to New Orleans

We have this old bat here because when the first ride was attacked in Annistion, somone was hit over the head with a bat like this one

Artifact Two: A Baseball Bat from 1961

The bus from the first ride is here because it was firebombed by the KKK, and it is an important artifact to look at and see how terrible people were.

Artifact One: The Bombed Bus

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The Freedom Riders

The Freedom Riders wanted to ride on interstate busses from Washington D.C to New Orleans while sitting where they wanted on the busses and at restaruants they wheere they ate along the way in 1961. Things were going smoothly until they got to Anniston, Alabama, there the riders got firebombed by the KKK, and that ended their first run. after the first Freedom Rides, more started to happen. This was important because it lead to the desegeragation of interstate busses.

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The sitters were areested for not moveing whun told to.

Artifact Three: Handcuffs From 1960

Sit ins ususally happend in resaruants, and the food that would have been served on plates like these was dumped on the Sit Inners.

Artifact Two: A Plate from 1960

The first Sit ins happend at this counter. Here the protesters sat and where they were arrested. this counter plays a big part in the desegeragating of restaruants,

Artifact One: The Lunch Counter

The Greensboro Sit Ins were conducted by a group of collage students trying to desegeragate restaruants in 1960. They were arrested, they had food poured on them, and they often were not served, they just nonviolently sat at the counter and did not move when told to. Soon, the trend of sitting in at public places caught on, and college students all over the country started doing sit ins. Eventually, restaruants were desegeragated as a result of the Greensboro Sit Ins. Another big outcome of the sit ins was that the people now knew that sit ins worked, and sitting in had the potential to desegeragate lots of things.

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The Greensboro Sit Ins

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Before the marches, Black voting in selma was nearly impossible, but after, the government removed the poll tax, the grandfather clause, and the literacy test

Artifact Three: The Voteing Rights Laws

They needed the military’s assistance and support from the president to get to Montgomery safely

Artifact Two: A Military Uniform from 1965

On the first attempt of marching, they were stopped and attacked by state troopers on the bridge, and they were turned around again on the same bridge due to a court order on the second attempt

Artifact One: A peice of the Edmund Pettus Bridge

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The Selma Marches

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In Selma Alabama, it was almost impossible for Black People to vote, and a Black teen who was protesting about not being able to vote as shot and killed by a white police officer. Three Marches were attempted in Selma, to show the inequality of the voteing system in Selma. First one was on March 7, 1965. The participants were stopped and attacked by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge this event became known as Bloody Sunday. The second one was on March 9, 1965, and Martin Luther King lead it but again the marchers were stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but this time they were stopped by a court order. The last March was also lead by MLK, but the marchers were accompenied by federal troops and had approval by the presedent. This time they successfully made it to Montgomery.