CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM Chelsea Darrow, Brittany Martini, & Briana Meshkofski Class Period - 10.

CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUMChelsea Darrow, Brittany Martini, & Briana Meshkofski

Class Period - 10

Jim Crow Stories

What interests you? Madame CJ Walker became the first African American

woman to become a self made millionaire.

What makes you angry or upset? The Red Summer was upsetting to hear about because

there were many riots.

What would you like to learn more about?

I would like to learn more about the Great Depression.

Atlanta Riot

This is a

depiction of the Atlanta

Riot which took

place in 1902.

Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan

was originally organized

in the winter of 1865 in Pulaski,

Tennessee as a social club by six Confedera

te veterans.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Charlotte

Hawkins Brown

had arrived at the worst

time of the Jim Crow era.

James Jones

James Jones, a veteran of World War II, shares

compelling stories from his tour of duty.

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

was the name given

to the cultural,

social, and artistic

explosion that took place in Harlem

between the end of World

War I and the middle

of the 1930s.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

What interests you? The story of Rosa Parks interests me because of her

courage to do what she did.

What makes you angry or upset? That Claudette Calvin, an African American 15-year-old,

was arrested after allegedly violating bus segregation laws.

What would you like to learn more about?

I would like to learn more about Rosa Parks and her life story.

Rosa Parks

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her

bus seat so that a white

man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the

forces she had set into motion

and the controversy that would soon swirl

around her.

After a Hearing

Coretta Scot King, the Rev. Ralph

Abernathy and the

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talking

after leaving a

Montgomery Bus

Boycott hearing.

Rosa Parks’ Death

Rosa Parks

died on October 24,

2005 – leaving

a legacy behind.

Refusal of Seat

It was very

illegal for Rosa to refuse

giving up her seat to that white

man on that

December 1st

afternoon.

Sarah Herbert

It was dangerou

s for a white

woman to support the Bus Boycott,

but Sarah Herbert was one who did.

Central High

What interests you? There were nine African American students chosen to be

the first to integrate into Central High.

What makes you angry or upset? Something that got me angry was that Orval Faubus

ordered in the Arkansas National Guard. Most people thought the guardsmen were going to protect the black students from harm, but they were in fact there to keep those students out of the school.

What would you like to learn more about?

I would like to learn more about Melba Patillo and the rest of the Little Rock Nine.

Beginning of Integration

Integration in Little

Rock had lasted just part of a morning. With the

mob vowing to attack the black

teens, local police swiftly

removed the students from the building.

"The first day I was able to enter Central High School, what I felt inside was terrible, wrenching, awful fear. On the car radio I could hear that there was a mob." - Melba Pattillo

The Little Rock Nine

These are the nine

brave students picked to integrate

Little Rock High

School in 1957 with

the president

of the Arkansas

Chapter of the

NAACP.

Central High Forced to Close

The governor at

the time was so

upset by the

integration of Little

Rock High School that

in September,

1958 he shut down the school altogether.

Ernest Green

Ernest Green in

1957, just days after he became one of the first

black students of

Central High. He

later became the first

black person to graduate from Central

High.

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates was president

of the Arkansas

Chapter of the NAACP

at the time, and a

major supporter

of the Little Rock

Nine.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What interests you? Something that interests me is that Martin Luther King

became such a hero because of his nonviolent protesting ways and his ideals on freedom.

What makes you angry or upset? It upsets me that he was assonated even though he was

such an amazing man.

What would you like to learn more about?

I would like to learn more about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr..

Mr. King

King, and his policy

of nonviolenc

e protesting, was the dominant force in the civil-

rights movement

.

“I Have a Dream”

The famous speech

delivered in 1963 to more than 200,000

civil-rights marchers

at the Lincoln

Memorial in

Washington, D.C.

Public Speaker

Martin Luther

King, Jr. often

spoke to the

media. He was a very public loved man.

Often Arrested

Martin Luther

King, Jr. was often getting

arrested at

protests. Although he was all about non-

violent protesting

.

5th artifact

Thousands of

people attended

the funeral of

Martin Luther

King, Jr.. He was

assonated on April 4, 1968.

What We Learned

I learned that the riot in Atlanta started in 1902.

I also learned of Melba Patillo.

I learned that Martin Luther King, Jr. passed away when he was 33 years old.

Lastly, I learned that Rosa Parks sat in the white end of the bus on December 1, 1955.

By doing this project I learned that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a large policy on nonviolent protesting.

I also learned that the Ku Klux Klan was created in Tennessee.

I learned that both white and black people supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Finally I learned that Ernest Green was the first African American person to graduate from Central High.

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