Civil rights movement
By Broddrick Simondo
The strategies the African-Americans used
In 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) African Americans were marching in silence down Fifth Avenue in New York city looking for equal jobs and wages. The Highlander Folk School in Tennessee began talking a nonviolence movement with civil rights workers. When Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat on a bus, she got arrested. So Martin Luther King Jr made boycott where none of the African Americans would ride the city buses that lasted 381 days with 42,000 people. The boycott energized young African Americans to support the broader and strategic nonviolent direct action.
In Arkansas nine African Americans students were created and they went to Central High school. The Government of Arkansas sent the National Guard to not let the nine African American students in the school. The public had a outcry and it led to intervention of federal troops.In 1960 Martin Luther King Jr moved his headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
The leaders in the Civil Rights Movement used nonviolence as a tool for segregation,discrimination,and inequality. The African Americans walked on the highway from Selma to the Alabama state for voting rights. Martin Luther King Jr was leading the second march to the Alabama state but then lead them back to the church, because he was obeying a federal injunction and also waiting for protection from the federal court.
Bayard Rustin
Ella Baker
Top Five Events
1) Formation of the NAACP: In 1909 the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People was the earliest and influence civil rights in the United States. The NAACP designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day.
2) The Harlem Renaissance of the: In 1920 the Harlem Renaissance was spanned in Harlem and New York. Alain Locke named the Harlem Renaissance the" New Nero Movement."
3) Murder of Emmett Till: Emmett Till was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, on August 24,1955, he repeatedly flirted with a white cashier. Four days after two white men kidnapped Till and beat him up then shot him in the head.
4) Brown vs. Board of Education:The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. This ruling a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement.
5) Montgomery Bus Boycott: In 1995 Martin Luther King Jr. organized a Montgomery Bus Boycott that was similar of the boycott that went through the South. The Supreme Court voted to end the segregated busing, and Martin Luther King Jr, lead the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.