Civil Rights Movement
Jasmine Supchukun
Civil right movement : more equal and just society.
In this flier, information about Civil Rights movement are provided such as strategies that had been used in 1960s, unsung heroes, and two important groups.
The Tactics and Strategies.
In the civil rights movement's, there were three-pronged strategy combined which are Civil disobedience, Grass-roots organizing, and Boycotts and economic withdrawal.
Civil disobedience or nonviolent direct action is the use of dramatic protests that disrupt normal activities and usually violate the law. Dr.King got this strategy while he was at Cozer. He became interested and familiar with civil disobedience philosophy and teaching of Ghandi. The most extensive applications from civil disobedience were the freedom rides and the sit-in's, actions that directly violated the morally unjust laws enforcing segregation.
Grass-roots organizing is the common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization. Important grass-root organization are NAACP, CORE, SCLC, SNCC, and Freedom Riders. Grass-root organizations played a huge role in bringing about significant victories in the struggle of black equality.
The third strategy of the civil rights movement was boycott and economic withdrawal. The Montgomery campaign of bus system boycott in Birmingham was the first victory in civil rights movement. As an effect of economic withdrawal, this was the most powerful weapon in nonviolent arsenal.
March on Washington
March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Rustin and Cleveland Robinson of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 7, 1963
Race riot area
Unsung hero : Ella Baker
Unsung hero : Bayard Rustin
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
An organization founded by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Their mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The NAACP's headquarter is in Baltimore, Maryland. The NAACP’s greatest victory was when the Supreme Court reversed Plessy v. Ferguson with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. NAACP favored and believed in using the courts rather than the civil disobedience