INTERACTIVE EVENT GUIDE

Diya's Civil rights museum

By: Diya Sarkar

Civil RightLegislation

Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Greensboro Sit-ins

Civil Rights Legislation

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The Civil Rights Legislation had many different parts to it. There was the 24th amendment, the Civil RIghts Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.The 24th Amendment: This Amendment banned the Poll Tax. The Poll Tax was an unfair law that many states in the South had previosly used to stop former slaves from voting!Civil Rights Act of 1964: This act made segregation illegal. Segregation is where a group of people are excluded from society because of thier race, color, gender, national origin, religion, or more.Voting Rights Act of 1965: Similar to the 24th Amendment, this Act worked to secure the voting rights of African Americans. The Voting Act banned literacy tests, which were one of the ways Southern states tried to stop former slaves from voting.

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This sign was to remind people to pay the tax to vote.

This sign segregated bathrooms by color.

The image above is a ballot used to put/count votes.

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

On December 1st, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African-American, was arrested for not giving her seat to a white person who had asked for it! At that time, it was illegal for a black person to deny a white person's request. After she was arrested, a large boycott started. A boycott is when a certain group of people protest against something unfair by not using it. In this case, thousands of African Americans stopped using the buses, even when it was thier only mode of transportation!

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks' mugshot from when she was arrested on the bus.

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Here is one of the Montgomery Bus system buses.

This flyer was to let people know about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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The Greensboro Sit-ins

The Greensboro Sit-ins

In February of 1960, a group of students in Greensboro, North Carolina, started a peaceful protest against segregation. Black students sat at white only tables in restaraunts, and waited to be served. Even though they knew no one would serve them because they were at the wrong table, they sat there peacefully. People got mad and would throw food at them, but they didn't react, in fact, more people kept joining them! In the end, the town of Greensboro banned segregation, and other people in other towns were inspired to start more peaceful protests.

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The Greensboro Sit-ins

These chairs are chairs from the sit-ins! The protestors sat in these chairs during their protest. Take a seat and experience what it would have been like, without the food being thrown at you of course.

This booth replicates the seats at the diner during the Greensboro sit-ins.

A news article about the Greensboro sit-ins.

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Greensboro Sit-Ins

At the Greensboro sit-ins, students sat at a whites-only table in protest. As their numbers grew, they began to develop rules for the protest. They could not smile, smile, talk back, or react to the people who were throwing food, yelling, or teasing them.

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Greensboro Sit-ins

Many news programs were reporting on the sit-ins, the news helped to promote the protest and get more people to join. The buisnesses lost money and started to close down. Eventually, they had to allow integration to stay open.

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Poll Taxes were used to prevent African Americans from voting. Poll taxes are what people had to pay to vote. Since many African Americans could not pay the tax, they could not vote. Thankfully, the 24th Amendment banned Poll Taxes.

Poll Tax

Greensboro Sit-ins Replica

The Greensboro sit-ins were very very important to the Civil Rights movement. The protest inspired others to start their own peaceful protests against segregation.

Segregation

Before The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, many public spaces were separated between African-American spaces-worse quality, and White areas- higher quality. This sign is one of the many that would have separated white and black facilities.

The Montgomery Bus

On this bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, Rosa Parks did not give her seat to a white man. Therefore she was arrested. This caused a boycott of these buses, which were part of the Montgomery Bus Transportation System. The buses ended up losing a lot of money because of this.

The Bus Boycott

When Rosa Parks was arrested, many people were angry and fed up of whites pushing them around, and Rosa Parks was a figure in their community. People made flyers and posters spreading the word about a bus boycott in protest of this, and it worked. About 40,000 African-Americans participated, 90% of the Africans in Montgomery! For more than a year people avoided the bus, and in the end, segregation on public transportation was banned.

Rosa Parks' Mugshot

In 1955, Rosa Parks' was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. Before segregation was made illegal, if a white person asked you to move, you had to move. Rosa Parks' refused to give up her seat, and the police were called. Her mugshot is the photo taken of her when she was taken to the jail.

Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most African Americans could not vote. This was due to laws created by Southern states saying you had to be able to read/write to be able to vote. Since most African Americans could not read/write, most of them were not able to vote! The Voting Rights Act changed that though. So now everyone can vote!

The Right to Vote