Civil Rights boycotts Flashcards
6 principles of nonviolence summed up
Eradicating the evil not the evil doer and believing good will over power evil.
Montgomery bus boycott
Started by rosa parks when she refused to move off the bus when the buses were segregated.
Children’s March
Hundreds of school children marched to fill the jails but the ultimate goal was getting the mayor to change things for segregation.
Little rock 9
9 black students went to little rock central high school that was all white and had a paratrooper protect them as they attended.
Eisenhower’s role in the integration of black students in little rock high school.
He sent federal troops to protect the students from being attacked.
Sit-ins
Black people sat in diners and refused to move so they could get served food.
Freedom riders
Blacks who caught against interstate travel going through segregated areas.
Bloody Sunday
Many black people walked for voting rights but when they crossed the bridge into Selma they were beat brutally and sent back. “Bloody Sunday”
MLK nonviolence philosophy
Basically the 6 principles except he made an idea of “chaos or community”
MLK I have a dream speech
He spoke during the March on Washington and went on for 16 minutes and is arguably the most memorable speech for the civil rights movement.
What is the civil rights movement?
Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period
