The Civil Rights Movement
By Sierra Gallegos
The Importance of The Revolution
Movement Strategies
The tactic of sit-ins first made an appearance in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960. Four African American college students sat at a whites only lunch counter in a local store and asked for coffee. They were denied service yet they still sat there patiently. Ignoring the threats and intimidation from some of the white customers, the students sat wand waited to be served. Sit-in participants would often get threatened by local customers. They would even sometimes be pelted with food or condiments. Many angry white customers would sometimes provoke fights that usually ended up never happening. If a physical attack ever took place, the student would curl up in a ball on the floor and take the beating.
May 4, 1961, a group of African American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides. The Freedom Rides were a series of bus trips through the South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders departed from Washington D.C. and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way top the South. African American Freedom Riders would try to use white only bathrooms and lunch counters while white Freedom Riders would do vice versa. Many of times the group encountered violent white protesters along the way, but also drew international attention to their cause. September of 1961 the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in bus and stations nationwide.
Little Rock Nine
The Selma-To-Montgomery ( March 7, 1965 )
Punishment for Being Black
NAACP
CORE
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