INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

Civil Rights movement

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Children's Museum

The rooms in this museum will teach you about a few Civil Rights events that happened during the movement.

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Little Rock Nine

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This is the school the Little Rock Nine attended, where the integration took place.

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At Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, Nine African American kids were selected to attend the high school to initiate the integration process after the Brown v. Board of Education case. Many different groups of people had different opinions and reactions to this. Little Rock Nine was the start of integrated education, it led to the desegregation of more schools. It's important because it was seen as a sort of victory in the eyes of civil rights activists.

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This is an individual picture of each of the students selected to attend Central High.

These are the nine kids entering the building surrounded by military forces.

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Greensboro Sit-Ins

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This is a picture of the four young men who initiated the peaceful protest.

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In Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, four college age men who had been tired of discrimination joined together and staged a peaceful protest in which they sat in a segregated diner. Eventually, more people decided to join the effort until the protest was wide-spread. It is important because it led to the integration of Greensboro, and because it inspired other people from all thirteen southern states to also stage sit-ins.

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This is an image of college students gathering in the diner to help the cause.

F.W. Woolworth Co. is the diner where the sit-ins took place.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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This is Rosa Parks, the woman who refused to give up her seat and kick-started the bus boycott.

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When Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat to a white man while riding the bus, she refused and therefore was arrested. As she was a member of the NAACP who had connections, her actions sparked a bus boycott that started in December of 1955 and lasted just over a year. It became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott because it took place in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott led to the desegregation of public buses, which made it impportant because it was a crucial step in the civil rights movement and it was a very successful protest.

This is an image depicting people riding bikes instead of taking the bus to participate in the boycott.

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This is a picture of what the public buses looked like before the boycott took place.

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