sit-ins
On February 1,1960 a new static was added to the peaceful activists' stratagey. Four African-American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the student sat patiently. Despite threats and intimidation, the students sat quietly and waited to be served
The Civil Rights Sit-Ins were born.
The direction for having a sit-in were very easy-sit their quietly and wait till' your served. The people who made the sit-ins were often threatened by the local customers. When the local police came to arrest them another line of students would take the vacated seats. Sit-in organizers believed that if the violence were only on the part of the white community, the world would see the reason why they would do their sit-ins. Before the end of the school years at least more than 1500 students were arrested. Restraunts throughout the South began to abandon their policies of segregation.
The Famous sit-ins groups were the
-Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
-Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
The Civil Rights Sit-Ins were born.
The direction for having a sit-in were very easy-sit their quietly and wait till' your served. The people who made the sit-ins were often threatened by the local customers. When the local police came to arrest them another line of students would take the vacated seats. Sit-in organizers believed that if the violence were only on the part of the white community, the world would see the reason why they would do their sit-ins. Before the end of the school years at least more than 1500 students were arrested. Restraunts throughout the South began to abandon their policies of segregation.
The Famous sit-ins groups were the
-Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
-Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Boycotts
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery BUs boycott started on December 1, 1955. That was the day that the blacks in Montgomery, Alabama decided that they would boycott the city buses until they would be able to sit anywhere they wanted to. The movement started when Rosa Parks refused to get off her seat in the bus. On the afternoon of December 5, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr., the 26-year-old pastier of Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as its president, and decided to continue the boycott until the city accomplished its hat they started. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed.
The Montgomery BUs boycott started on December 1, 1955. That was the day that the blacks in Montgomery, Alabama decided that they would boycott the city buses until they would be able to sit anywhere they wanted to. The movement started when Rosa Parks refused to get off her seat in the bus. On the afternoon of December 5, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group elected Martin Luther King Jr., the 26-year-old pastier of Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as its president, and decided to continue the boycott until the city accomplished its hat they started. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully challenge racial segregation and served as an example for other southern campaigns that followed.
marches
The marches grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, launched by local African-Americans who formed the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). In 1963, the DCVL and organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began voter-registration work. When white resistance to black voter registration proved intractable, the DCVL requested the assistance of Martin Luther King Jr. . and the Southern Christian Conference Leadership, who brought many prominent civil rights and civic leaders to support voting rights.