Unit+8

=Unit 8- Civil Rights Movement:= civil rights- what people are able and allowed to do ( by law)

My Photo:

 * big bus on fire with a lot of black smoke
 * an ice cream sign, the place is named Mell-o
 * the burning bus was near a house
 * why is the bus on fire?
 * why is a person walking away from the burning bus?
 * the person probably did it and walked away
 * MI: freedom riders were attacked by an angry mob who burned their bus because they did not like how they were civil rights activist

class notes:
 * Martin Luther King jr. fought segregation
 * jim crow laws--> segregation
 * African americans would go to a lunch counter to asked to be served and sometimes the restaurants would serve them, call the police, or riots would form
 * Freedom riders protested segregation--> they were white and black
 * sit-in--> protesting the segregated lunch counters
 * example of civil disobedience
 * Rosa park arrested for sitting in front of the bus and not giving it up to the white person
 * The march on washington --> protest march for equal rights--> jobs, voting, school integration


 * C. Key Questions for our brief look at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s (use info and links below for help): **
 * ==‍What is a civil rights movement?==
 * A civil rights movement was a movement for women and African Americans so that they could obtain civil rights.
 * ==‍What were the main goals of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s in America?==
 * Integration
 * boycott- blacks would have an equal right to sit anywhere on the bus
 * ==‍Who was Martin Luther King Jr. and what did he believe in?==
 * Martin Luther King jr. was an African American civil rights leader who believed that African Americans should have equal rights, no matter the skin color
 * ==‍What were the key events of the Civil Rights Movement?==
 * the Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * Birmingham and the March on Washington
 * Selma to Montgomery March
 * ==‍What strategies were used to accomplish the goals of the Civil Rights Movement?==
 * people protested
 * boycott
 * ==‍What accomplishments were made?==
 * Voting rights act
 * some schools were integrated