INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

how people gained back their rights

by: Ellina Lee

Rosa Parks and Mantgomery Bus Boycott

Selma Marches

Greensboro Sit-Ins

The Greensboro Sit-Ins started in 1960 in North Carolina. What this event was is when a handful of students (African Americans) went to a all whites school and tried to eat at the whites only food counter. Of course, they were treated badly, where they were not even served any food. They had musturd, ketchup, and a handful of other sauses dumped on them. They were swore at, yelled and harrassed at. But they just sat there, peacfully sitting, not fighting back. The next day, they came back with 19 other students that soon grew to 85. This only grew more and more, traveling to other places in the south. This happened until these resturants and food places were now treating whites and blacks equally, having a few more whit only signs taken down.

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Greensboro Sit-Ins

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Greensboro Sit-Ins lunch counter.This is the very couter of the Greensboro Sit-Ins. This had it's impact of starting this whole act, being the very reason of more equal eating areas. In other words, it was one of the reasons the signs of "whites only" went away.

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Greensboro Sit-Ins Artifacts

This is one of the things written in the papers. "Lets all sit together as human beings should," is what was said in the text. Also meaning, it was a lot of what people were thinking while this was happening.

This one is showing how the people participating in this act were treated. It shows how they are having things dumped onto them but just stay still anyways. It is also showing how this truely was a peacful protest.

The Selma Marches were a total of 3 marches in the span of March 7-21, 1965. These marches were each impactful and were all for the black voting rights. In the first march, they were greeted with with violence of heavily armed troops. These troops used tear-gas clubs and horsed to dispel all of the participants. In the second march, they were abrupted from a barricade of state troopers. And because of this, MLK had to turn it around at the Edmund pettus Bridge. They were once again not greet very well.But the very last march gave a turn for the better. In this march the president (Lydon B. Johnson) issued a exectutive order to federalize the national guard and authorized federal forces that were needed for this march. In other words, the march had been safely protected, and the numbers grew all the wasy to 25,000

Selma Marches

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Selma Marches Artifacts

This image shows the third march of the three Selma Marches. This one is showing the protection that was provided for the people marching by the president. You can also see here that MLK lead these marches, being in the front

This one shows the second march, where they were stopped by a wall of federal troops. And in the image, you can really see the troops, and how they are lined up to block everyone from going past them

This first image shows the first march. As you can see, they were greted with violence and were harmed in this first march. They were harrassed by the armed troopers and also used tear gas.

The Rosa Parks and Mantgomery Bus Boycott started on December 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks got on a city bus and sat down in the front (usually reserved for whites) a didnt give it up as a way for peacful protest (civil disobedience). She was arrested.Now, you might be wondering what this has to do with the Mantgomery Bus Boycott? Well, of course there were other protests but the Rosa Parks inncedent was the final straw, where the following monday, every bus was emtpy. Now, this was organized to help blacks get more rights by the Montgomery Improvment Association (MLK was the leader) where they wanted to have all blacks to try to stay off the busses and instead walked and rode bikes while carpools where established for the eldery. This was their way of peaceful protest.Because of this protest, of course, since now 99% of the city's African Americans refused to go on the buses the bus companies were losing their money in the thousands . The buses were now put in a spot. Let them have equal bus rights, or lose more money. And 382 days later of no busses, this had not only lead to blacks now getting equal rights in buses, but had more boycotts spread across the south.

Rosa Parks and Mantgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks and Mantgomery Bus Boycott Artifacts

This first image shows the bible that Rosa Parks had owned. She wrote little notes and had used this bible to keep her faith in the best way she could.

This next image shows a picture of Rosa parks herself and letters she had wrote. in a few of her letters she had written them in prison, explaining what they were planning to do with the Mantgomery Bus Boycott.

This last image shows the very bus of Rosa Parks. This bus was the one where she did a peacful protest and had gotten arrested on for the peacful protest.