Civil Rights Alexis Pawlusiak & Heather Ramos

Freedom Riders • The Jim Crow laws were crated because of the racial factor in the south.

Blacks and whites had different theaters, schools and rail cars. Blacks felt left out so that’s when Rosa parks Deiced to finally do something about the situation. After this happed Black collage students sat in an all white restaurant. This is what they did to protest because they believe everybody equal. Then the Civil rights movement began.

Freedom RidersA bus full of whites and blacks was going through Alabama. There was an angry mob that slashed the tires and broke the windows. When the angry mob blow up the fuel tank the blacks and whites had to get out of the bus. At that point the mob was hitting them with baseball bats. After this happened many others were risking there lives.

Jim Crow Laws • No matter where the blacks went they had problems with somebody. For

the buses they thought that the transportation company should have separate waiting rooms and separate ticket windows. At restaurants the colored people had to be seven feet away from the whites. In the pool and billiard rooms whites and Blacks couldn't play together. Black barbers couldn't serve to white women and girls. When buying houses blacks had to buy from blacks and whites had to buy from whites.

Jim Crow Laws In Florida the children had to go to different schools and they had to be separated. In Kentucky they wouldn't let the children play together they had to be completely separated. Mississippi schools believed that they colored children and the white children should be able to go to school together. In North Carolina they thought that the textbook shouldn't be traded between the white school and black schools.

Jim Crow Laws • The Jim Crow laws was created so blacks and whites couldn't be equal in the public life.

Legislation drew the color line between blacks and whites in there public life. Blacks and Whites couldn't be seen together or even talk to each other in public places. Blacks we discriminated. There were signs everywhere all over the streets, buildings, restaurants, and rest areas. Blacks and whites could not shake hands. Blacks and whites couldn't eat together and if they did whites were served first. If a black person rode in a car with a white person driving the black person had to sit in the back seat. white people always had the right away at an intersection.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• The Congress of Racial Equality was established in Chicago, 1912 by James R. Robinson, James L. Farmer Jr., Joe Guinn, George Houser, and Homer Jack. It started out as Committee of Racial Equality. The CORE was established to support the rules of nonviolence and oppose segregation. Several Americans worked long and hard to achieve the equal rights that were deserved.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• The CORE went on many peaceful protests. One of them took place at a segregated coffee shop in the state in 1943. It started in the North but moved to the South. The Congress of Racial Equality gained its popularity and attention quickly. The group did many things from helping African Americans be successful from education to jobs.

Malcolm XMalcolm Little, more commonly known as Malcolm X was a Black advocate nationalist in 1952. At a young age, Malcolm was a rebel and got himself into trouble a lot that lead him to go to prison. After he got out, he changed his name to what he is more commonly known as and united with the Nation of Islam. Malcolm changed his name because “a Negro in America can never know his true family name, or even what tribe he was descended from.” Whilst in prison, he learned Muhammad and Elijah teachings and showed interest.

Malcolm XMalcolm did not support integration but black nationalism. Black nationalism is “a doctrine that called for complete separation from white society”. He ignored the nonviolence because he felt it would bring more of a shift. Years later Malcolm resigned from the Nation of Islam and went with orthodox Islam. He tried to make a bigger impact on reaching out to human rights. A big part of Black Muslims were outraged. Malcolm was killed by assassination during his speech in 1965. The people that assassinated him were three members of the Nation of Islam.

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