also brought to fame a young pastor named Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ who led the protest. The attempts at school desegregation and the bus boycott began a flood of protest demonstrations that engulfed the country. In 1960‚ students pioneered the sit-in as a form of protest‚ and soon sit-ins sprang up all over the nation. Groups like SNCC‚ CORE‚ and SCLC organized rallies‚ demonstrations‚ and massive campaigns in cities that were famous for discrimination. The movement benefited from massive media
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30-year-old colored shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white‚ but under Louisiana law‚ he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life
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of Nonviolence” by John Lewis takes place in the Southern United States during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. An important theme revealed in “The Power of Nonviolence” is life can be hard but you should always keep going that is what gets you were you are. Three ways that this theme is revealed are‚ John Lewis and other blacks being discriminated against‚ John and his friends doing the sit-ins‚ and Nashville desegregating the lunch counters. The first way the theme is revealed is by John Lewis
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Protestors formed sit-ins‚ A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest‚ often to promote political‚ social‚ or economic change. Protestors that were simply sitting‚ were attacked and faced with violence. These violent
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not the only form of rebellion from Douglass. He is known for many more around the world. An example would be the Greensboro Sit-In. In 1960 a group of young African American college students sat a lunch counter in Greensboro‚ NC‚ where they waited to be served. Workers of the dinner felt they did not have to wait the students and ignored them. However‚ the students of the sit-in would
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Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington in 1963 and as leader of protests to demand fair housing at the University of Chicago (Wellman). American civil rights activist‚ Alfred Sharpton once mentioned that if “you were not getting arrested during the 1960s in America‚ [I] would have to question your leadership around racial justice issues” (Harris). While Sanders was volunteering with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)‚ Hillary Clinton was volunteering with Barry Goldwater who voted against the Civil
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To have as good of an education as white children. • Equality TO CHANGE ATTITUDES: • They were fighting to change the behaviour and attitudes of white racists. • After being attacked during a lunch counter sit-in in Jackson‚ Mississippi a young black student wrote‚ “after the sit-in‚ all I could think of was how sick Mississippi white were. They believed so much in the segregated southern way of life‚ they would kill to preserve it. KU KLUX KLAN: • The Ku Klux Klan was a white racist organisation
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The Challenges African Americans Have Overcome: Throughout history‚ African Americans have been faced with great adversity which they have overcome to get to the place where they are today. During the Civil Rights Movement‚ some of the most influential leaders were born; they came and paved the way for the upcoming generation. In many instances their circumstances cost them their lives. During the Civil Rights Movement‚ many events taken place to give us the freedom we deserved. On January 1
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Brief Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement (1954 – 1965) 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education: In the 1950’s‚ school segregation was widely accepted throughout the nation. In fact‚ law in most Southern states required it. In 1952‚ the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases‚ including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. This case decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional‚ overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that had set the “separate
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Brown v. Louisiana During the 1960’s‚ many African-Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded the federal government assist them and help resolve the issues that plagued them. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. Despite the efforts of these groups and Supreme Court rulings that ordered the desegregation
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