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Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Year: 1955 Situation: Jim Crow Laws demanded African Americans sit in the back of the bus when whites enter the bus. What happened: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white bus rider and is arrested for breaking the law.
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Montgomery Bus Boycotts • Year: 1955 • Situation: Jim Crow Laws demanded African Americans sit in the back of the bus when whites enter the bus. • What happened: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white bus rider and is arrested for breaking the law. • The Effect: Launched a 381 day bus boycott where African Americans in Montgomery refused to ride buses. Supreme Court eventually ruled that segregated public transportation was unconstitutional.
Desegregation of Schools • Year: 1954 • Situation: Brown v. Board of Education rules that separate schools are not equal, and the federal government rules all schools must be integrated, immediately. • What happened: Southern states reject the law, and when schools try to integrate violence breaks out, or some schools shut down completely. • The Effect: The National Guard is called in to protect African American students at Little Rock Central High School. Virginia does not become completely integrated until late 1960s.
Greensboro Sit-Ins • Year: 1960 • Situation: White restaurants in the South refused to serve African American customers. • What happened: 4 university students sit at a lunch counter in a white restaurant. Wait staff refused to wait on them, and customers jeered and threw things at them. • The Effect: By the end of the week, 400 students were occupying the lunch counters. Eventually, 33 cities including Greensboro, had integrated their restaurants and lunch counters. One year later, 126 cities did the same.
Freedom Riders • Year: 1961 • Situation: 7 African Americans and 6 Whites leave Washington D.C. for New Orleans to test the desegregation of public transportation. • What happened: Freedom Riders encountered minor hostility in Virginia and North Carolina, but in the second week Riders were severely beaten, and in Alabama one of the buses was burned. • The Effect: The extreme violence and the indifference of local police prompted a national outcry of support for the riders, and eventually the Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting segregation in public facilities.
Live Tweet Group Project Directions • Assign roles – Write out roles on the back of your paper • Scribe – choose somebody with neat handwriting. Use a pencil. • Researchers – Researchers will use books to read about event and collaborate with rest of group to accurately portray event. • Presenter – The presenter will present the Live Tweet feed, but they must also contribute to group work. • Create 5 tweets in chronological order. • Each tweet is 140 characters. • Include 1-2 hashtags • Every tweet must be separated by a date. (Month, day, and year) • Tweets must be from one person’s perspective. • Keep the language clean! • Remember, people did not use the same slang we use today, so keep the language formal. • Have fun with it! • Be original! • Listen to everybody in the group! • Collaborate with one another, you will be evaluated on your team work.
