Hi I'm Claire the Cat, I was born on August 12, 1949. I lived through the Civil Rights Movement and I'm here to tell you what happened.

The Civil Rights Movement took place between the 1950's. Although the Civil War got rid of slavery, it did not stop discrimination and segregation.

I remember the Montgomery Bus Boycott like it was yesterday, poor Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man, because of this she was arrested. After this tragedy the Boycott began. African Americans started to refuse to ride buses and it cost the company's a lot of money.

Brown v. Board of Education

I was in the crowd of people when Linda Brown was denied entrance into Topeka's all white school. Brown vs. Board was a big step in the educational system for African Americans. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools in unconstitutional.

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Welcome to Woolworth's lunch Counter

Sit-in's became very popular during the 1960's. The "Greensboro Four" became a very popular group when they staged a sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter and refused to leave. The police even came and tried to kick them out, but failed.

I stood next to Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave his famous, "I have a dream" speech. It was August 19663 when almost 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The purpose was to open people's eyes and help them see that African Americans were still being treated in-equal.

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The Birmingham campaign was a Civil Rights Movement in 1963 by the Southern Christian Leaders Conference to allowed African Americans to be allowed inside Birmingham's public facilities. This group was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Fred Shuttelsworth. On April 10, 1963 the government got a court order to stop the protests, but the leaders refused and rebelled. That Friday King was arrested and put in Birmingham Jail where I sat with him hoping for his release.

During the Burmingham Church Bombin, I was on one of the Firetrucks witnessing everything. The Church was primarily blacks and it was where the Civil rights leaders met. Four young girls died. The city's police commisioner Eugene "Bull" Conor did nothing and possibly caused it